I've been on this forum a little while and noticed a lot of very mediocre to downright terrible advice.
I am at work now and have some down-time during the day. Ill try to answer as many questions as possible.
Heres some thoughts/pointers to maintain a "life-time of oral health"
Acidity
1) Reduce/neutralize the acidity consumed during the day. Acidity degrades teeth.
Thankfully, enamel is quite strong. Unfortunately, all of our are teeth are fully formed (crowns at least) by the age of 16. This means that you only get one chance to maintain good teeth.
Heres what soda does to a chicken bone....
Soda is very acidic usually about 2-3 on the pH scale. Granted, nobody douses their teeth is soda for a week or so straight. But adding up the times you drink soda over your life-time, one can quickly see that this is a damaging habit.
Solution- Asking people to quit soda/acidic drinks (coffee, lemon drinks, juices, etc) is impractical. Thus it becomes important to incorporate habits that minimize the damage. The body's way of buffering this acid is your saliva. Your saliva washes away the acid and helps buffer the acidity of your mouth. An artificial way of helping this buffering is swishing one's mouth w/water after a meal/coffee/soda.
For those living under a rock heres a pH scale![[Image: ph_scale_2.jpg]](http://academic.cuesta.edu/gbaxley/chem1A/notes/ph_scale_2.jpg)
Next down-time- Human physiology of Saliva Buffering i.e Stephan Curve
I am at work now and have some down-time during the day. Ill try to answer as many questions as possible.
Heres some thoughts/pointers to maintain a "life-time of oral health"
Acidity
1) Reduce/neutralize the acidity consumed during the day. Acidity degrades teeth.
Thankfully, enamel is quite strong. Unfortunately, all of our are teeth are fully formed (crowns at least) by the age of 16. This means that you only get one chance to maintain good teeth.
Heres what soda does to a chicken bone....
Soda is very acidic usually about 2-3 on the pH scale. Granted, nobody douses their teeth is soda for a week or so straight. But adding up the times you drink soda over your life-time, one can quickly see that this is a damaging habit.
Solution- Asking people to quit soda/acidic drinks (coffee, lemon drinks, juices, etc) is impractical. Thus it becomes important to incorporate habits that minimize the damage. The body's way of buffering this acid is your saliva. Your saliva washes away the acid and helps buffer the acidity of your mouth. An artificial way of helping this buffering is swishing one's mouth w/water after a meal/coffee/soda.
For those living under a rock heres a pH scale
Next down-time- Human physiology of Saliva Buffering i.e Stephan Curve
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