Foods That Cause Dental Cavity and Affect Teeth
July 14th, 2009
Dental cavities, as any other human’s body problem, are caused by an incorrect life style, which includes the diet, of course. It isn’t the main cause; however, it plays an important role in your healthy or unhealthy teeth development. Too much depends on the products we consume. Even if you can’t avoid some then just keep brushing your teeth after the meals. It also helps a lot.
Foods effect on teeth usually brings harm because of the high level of sugar in them. Such things as white sugar, brown sugar, organic sugar, evaporated cane juice, corn syrup, or commercial jams are really dangerous and begin to badly affect your teeth the first moments of your meal. The explanation lies in the bacterial knowledge fields.
Mutans streptococci bacteria and lactobacilli bacteria, that live in your dental plaque, consume these sugar molecules and produce acids instead, the same way persons eat and produce waste products. These acids hardly damage the tooth’s enamel, slowly dissolving the calcium in it. Then the dental cavity appears.
It’s important that the dental plaque is more than three hours old. Fresh formed dental plaque is not able to provide bacteria with all the necessary conditions for a progressive development. That’s why it’s so important to brush your teeth after meals, minimum twice a day.
Another bad foods effect on teeth is caused by flour and grain products. White flour, wheat flour, organic flour, or such grain products like bread, crackers, cookies, doughnuts, breakfast cereals, muffins, pastries, tortillas, bagels, and sandwiches should be avoided, even if they are brought from the health food store, or are organically labeled.
Besides these products contain starch carbohydrates, most of them are also considered sticky foods. Especially chewy and sticky products should be avoided. Biscuits, for example, are difficult to clean from your tooth surface without special tools. Grain products easily reach the area between your teeth where they remain for long time and develop the Class III dental cavity.
Any type of junk, convenience, or modern fast foods should strictly be avoided, too. These products have nothing useful, and for your teeth, and for your overall health. Not bringing the necessary vitamins and minerals, fast foods destroy the tooth structure from its molecular levels, creating conditions for dental cavities development.
Coffee, soft drinks, and anything with artificial flavors, artificial colors, or artificial ingredients can badly affect your teeth color. If you want to have a beautiful and charming smile then avoiding these drinks will be a necessary step. Besides, artificial ingredients influences on the enamel structure, increasing the dental cavity formation chances. Instead, you can drink unsweetened yogurt.
Badly foods effect on teeth can be found and when speaking about milk. Even if it’s organic, sugars contained in it help the dental cavity successful development. A good example can serve the baby bottle tooth decay, when children have dental cavities because of permanent contact between milk and their teeth.
Such things like soymilk, protein powder, and excess tofu, non-grass-fed meat and eggs, and farm raised fish should be avoided, too. Here you can also add hydrogenated oils like margarine and low quality vegetable oils such as vegetable oil, soybean oil, crisco, canola, and safflower. These products have nothing good for your teeth health. And, of course, alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs cause dental cavities as well as destroying your body from inside.
Many of these products can be avoided, many should not. In any case, keep brushing and flossing your teeth, as well as visiting your dentist, even if the food you eat is considered absolutely harmless. Even if you eat nothing at all, your teeth will have dental cavities as the time passes. So, the best solution is to follow a balanced diet, dental care and lifestyle.
Categories: Nutrition, Oral Hygiene, Teeth
Bravo for this article, and for taking a stand against processed and commercial farm meats and dairy. I am particularly impressed that you mention soy and commercial oils, as most experts seem unaware of the harms to health these impose. While I agree with your stand on grains in general, I wonder if sprouted and fermented grains are safer. The scientific literature suggests sprouted and sourdough-type grains are safer for metabolism (e.g. less likely to promote diabetes) but I’m not sure if they are safe, or at least safer for teeth. If anyone can speak to that I am very interested in the answers. I also would like to know if mother’s (unpasteurized) breast milk causes harm to children’s teeth (I suspect it does not), and if not, is it pasteurized milk that rots teeth? Or perhaps leaving the bottle in the baby’s mouth too long (I wonder if pumped breast milk would do the same)? Does commercial infant formula rot teeth as well? Thank you for considering my questions.
This information was poorly written and extreamly fragmented. Very dificult to discern the true meaning of the text in some spots.
Makes one wonder if this resource is accurate.