Are Healthy Habits Eroding Your Tooth Enamel?

Are “Healthy” Habits Eroding Your Tooth Enamel? Let’s Remineralise Your Teeth!

Improve your Tooth Enamel Care to Futureproof Your Smile

You’ve brushed, got busy with interdental brushes, eaten well and swerved sugar. So, when your dentist said you have enamel erosion, it caught your blindside.

There you were thinking eroding tooth enamel only happened if you chomped sweets all day and paid no attention to your oral health.

Lots of “healthy” lifestyle habits are acidic for our tooth enamel

THERE YOU WERE THINKING YOU WERE DOING YOUR BEST FOR YOUR HEALTH WHEN ALONG COMES THE NEWS ...

Nibbling fruit for your five a day? That’s acidic for tooth enamel.

Smoothies for the win? They can be acidic.

Quaffing kombucha for gut health? You’ve guessed it – acidic.

An apple cider vinegar salad dressing? Easy to think it’s a virtue, right? Maybe for your digestion, but for your teeth? Acidic.

Even swapping a Crunchie for a fruit yoghurt doesn’t mean you’re out of the acid lands. #sadface

When it comes to party drinks – they can gang up on enamel too

That swift wine, cooly chilled prosecco or saucily sour cocktail could marshal in an acid bath for your teeth.

Acid exposure means your tooth enamel loses minerals

WHEN LOW PH MEANS ‘PH’EWER MINERALS FOR YOUR TEETH

When acid exposure happens too often, your teeth don’t get enough recovery time. Normally your saliva has time to deliver the minerals you lose during short acid attacks to your teeth.

Disrupting this delicately balanced equation too often means:

Teeth don’t get enough recovery time

More minerals are lost than replaced

Enamel softens

Tooth surfaces become rougher

Tooth decay can develop

How can I tell if I have enamel erosion?

At first, the damage isn’t obvious to the untrained eye

But soon, subtle clues begin to intrude on your oral health

Sensitivity
Teeth begin to show thinner or translucent edges
Yellowish dentine begins to show through teeth
Your teeth feel uneven or rough when you run your tongue over them

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The good news? Tooth enamel can be remineralised to strengthen it

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Biology dictates that:

Tooth enamel cannot grow back
Tooth enamel cannot repair itself

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It’s never too late to stand up for your tooth enamel

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Avoid sipping acidic drinks slowly over long periods

Short exposure is less harmful than constant exposure. You can have the kombucha, just don’t nurse it all day! Sounds like full permission to glug in one go for your gut and oral health.

Use a straw for acidic drinks

Straws help keep liquids away from your teeth. You can still delight your tastebuds (even more so if you’re in the habit of using a Dr. Wieder's Tung-Brush) but your teeth will thank you for it.

Rinse with water after smoothies, kombucha, and during wine o’clock

A quick rinse reduces acidity fast and your saliva can get back to providing the minerals that team with fluoride to maintain hard enamel.

It might seem counterintuitive but wait 30 to 60 minutes before brushing

Brushing too soon after eating acidic food or drink can contribute to the scrubbing away of softened enamel. And there we all were thinking we were doing our teeth a favour ... But now you know, pass it on! A soft bristled toothbrush is a friend to tooth enamel, too!