Food to protect teeth

Nutrition has a big impact on the health of our teeth.

Making the right food choices helps our teeth to stay strong and last long.

 

 

 

 

Some good food choices include…

• Sugar Free Gum
• Fresh fruits and veggies
• Protein rich foods
• Whole grain foods

Click on the link below to read this article from the Detroit Free Press recently released.

http://www.freep.com/article/20130707/FEATURES08/307070013/health-teeth-nutrition?odyssey=obinsite

"3D-Printed Toothbrush Cleans All Your Teeth in 6 Seconds"

Blizzident, a new 3D-printed toothbrush, looks like a mouthguard lined with 600 bristles. You bite down into the 3D replication of your mouth and grind your teeth on the bristles, which cleans all of your teeth simultaneously.

 

 

The brush, which looks like a gum shield covered in bristles, is customised to fit an individual’s mouth using scans of their mouth.

By clamping the brush in their mouth and grinding their teeth, it can clean the whole mouth at once and even includes a tongue cleaner.

The dense clusters of bristles in the brush are angled to align along a person’s gum line and touch the surface of each tooth at a 45 degree angle.

A group of dentists and engineers who are based in Spain, claim their new design could be ideal for those who feel traditional tooth brushes are eating into their day.

They say using their 3D printed brush could save up to 50 hours per year.

However, just one of the brushes costs £250 – although they do say they can last up to a year.

Describing how the brush works, “You simply bite and release quickly 10 to 15 times. This creates little vibrating, jiggling and slightly circling movements. Grinding left-right and backward-forwards, while your teeth are closed… additionally cleans the top surfaces of your molars.”

“Opening your mouth causes the gum line-bristles to additionally wipe dirt out.”

“Because you are brushing all your teeth at the same time, you are brushing extremely quickly.

“You brush all the difficult-to-reach and interdental regions without even having to think about it.” The brushes are created using scans and 3D models of the patient’s mouth.

These are then used to create a brush that is then printed out of soft plastic using a 3D printer with the inner surfaces covered in thousands of hair-like bristles.

It also contains slots where floss can be fixed to clean in between teeth, the company claims. However, the company has still to publish any clinical trials to show how its new brush compares to other tooth brushes.

one of our Happy clients :)

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See what happens when you open bottles with your teeth..

 

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body.

However, we do not recommend that you use your pearly whites to open bottle caps!

 

 

One of our patients came to us recently with a broken front tooth after he tried to open a coke bottle with his teeth.

 

Broken front tooth

 

 

 

Soda and Teeth

 

Soda related tooth decay..

 

People across the world use different words to identify a sugary, carbonated soft drink. But however they say it, they're talking about something that can cause serious oral health problems.

People who drink 3 or more glasses of soda each day have 62% more tooth decay, fillings and tooth loss than others. Sugar-free drinks, which account for only 14 percent of all soft drink consumption, are less harmful. However, they are acidic and potentially can still cause problems.

 

According to studies, some teenagers drink as many as 12 soft drinks a day.

 

 

“Acidic substances attack tooth enamel, and upper layers of the tooth can even be dissolved in some acidic drinks,” said Dr. Attin in an interview with Reuters Health.  “However, protective agents in saliva may help repair and rebuild damaged tooth enamel.”

Protection from soda related decay??

“You should wait at least 30 minutes after drinking soda before brushing your teeth, said researchers at the German Association for Tooth Protection meeting.”

                                                               ( Source: “The journal of American Dental Association”)

Our Health Advice from iDENT Dental Clinic, Andheri, 

specially for you:

 

“Put down the pop and sports drinks and pick up some nice fresh water instead"

 

 

Yuck ... Did You Know??

 

 

Did you know??

 

 

You should not keep your toothbrush near a toilet. The airborne particles from the flush can travel up to a distance of 6 feet.

Yuck!

 

Smoking Hookah/Sheesha vs Cigarettes and Chances of getting Mouth Cancer

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice ... 'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.  
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll

Perhaps there are many who've read this passage more than once without thinking to establish what the caterpillar was doing with a 'hookah' in its mouth, but either Lewis Carroll was making some oblique reference to Middle Eastern culture, or, seemingly more likely judging by the rest of the book, he was implying that the caterpillar is well-and-truly stoned. 

But all this gives us a false sense of safety which needs to be rationally thought over. Which brings us to one important question...

"Hookah smoking: Is it safer than smoking cigarettes?"

There is a myth that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes because the hookah smoke is filtered through water before it is inhaled. But recent studies have found that hookah smokers actually inhale more nicotine than do cigarette smokers because of the massive volume of smoke they inhale. 

The hookah operates by water-filtration and indirect heat. Hookah (Shisha) smokers may feel that the hookah is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes, but doctors take a dim view of this. Whereas smoking a fag lasts around five minutes, a full-on hookah experience can last 45 minutes, meaning users inhale a larger volume of smoke than they would from a cigarette.

Cancer: Studies have shown lung and bladder cancer rates are higher among water-pipe smokers than among nonsmokers, and they are also at risk from pulmonary disease and other types of malignancies such as Oral Cancer.

                                                                                                                          Source: Mouthcancerfoundation.org and h2g2.com