16 habits that harm your teeth

1. Play sports without protection

You're not going to play hockey without a helmet? Or a box without a mouth guard? If you engage in any contact sport, then do not start without special protection for the teeth. Never neglect gear. Otherwise, your teeth will be one of the five million who annually break on the sports field. According to the American Dental Association, the protective devices - helmets and caps - saving 200 thousand teeth per year.

Compare how much protection as well as - the new teeth, and make the right choice.

Wear protection if you do the following sports: MMA, boxing, wrestling, hockey, soccer, basketball, football, water polo, skeytbroding, rugby. In fact, the list can be more. Special protective equipment save not only your teeth, but also the language, gums and cheeks from biting during exercise.

2. Get involved in tongue piercing

Dentists do not like tongue piercing, and all the hard metal rod, and here's why:

• Piercing may damage teeth and even break it.
• Piercing can create pressure on the gums, which is why thinner gums (so that even you can lose a tooth) and becomes sensitive.
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• In the mouth, millions of bacteria. Because of jewelery they multiply rapidly, creating an unhealthy environment.
• Piercing can bite, and if there is also a stone, they can crumble.
• Puncture can become inflamed, as if from the start of the swelling, then there will be difficulty in breathing.
• Some metals in jewelry cause allergy.
• Because of the piercing may damage nerves in the tongue, so that he ceases to obey. Usually this is a temporary phenomenon.
• Piercing can affect the dental X-ray images.

3. There jellies

About sugar, because of which caries developsEverybody knows. But some sweets more dangerous than others. Those that stick to the teeth, such as harmful. If particles of jelly stuck between your teeth, not so easy to get them out of there, and saliva can neutralize them. In addition to jelly, caramel, and more dangerous, dried candied fruit, marmalade. But they all have in versions with sugar substitutes, and in a pinch you can just brush your teeth after you tuck sweet.

4. Treat cough candies

They facilitate the cough and relieve pain in the throat, but if you have dental caries, the lollipops it is compounded because most of them are full of sugar. Constantly dissolving the candy, we create in the mouth perfect breeding ground for bacteria that destroy the teeth and gums. When you are choosing candy, look at the composition and look for options with no sugar.

5. grind their teeth

In fact, at night creaking many teeth. This phenomenon is called bruxism, blame it heredity or anxiety and stress. Usually teeth grind during sleep, but sometimes this manifests during waking hours.

In general, it is a harmless condition, but it can damage your teeth: thin the enamel and cause damage to or loss of the tooth.

Many do not even know what to grind their teeth in their sleep. But if in the morning for no apparent reason, a sore throat, ears, head, if overvoltage felt in the jaw and teeth somehow crumble and fall, it is possible that it is guilty of bruxism.

If his reason for stress, it is necessary to solve this problem from psychologists, and the dentist will advise only protection for teeth and change position in bed.

6. drinking soda

Sugar and acid - lethal combination for enamel. Even if there is lemonade sweetener, there still remains the acid that destroys the enamel and causes tooth sensitivity.

Soda is better not to drink at least 30 minutes after brushing your teeth, but if you drink frequently, through a straw.

7. Open the bottle and packaging

Teeth are designed for food and smiles! Use for other purposes is not recommended. Teeth - this is not the knives, no openers and scissors. Therefore, open the packaging, bottles, cut the thread and hold items necessary special tools, or you can break your teeth.

8. Drink fruit juices

They, of course, healthier sodas, but they are also full of sugar. About the same as in lemonade. So wash down water, fruit juices, to avoid leaving the sugar in the mouth.

9. There are potato chips

Thin chips initially break into small pieces which crawls between the teeth, and then under the action of saliva adhere thereto. The effect of both the jelly candy. Such stuck pieces of food - a fertile ground for the cultivation of bacterial plaque, so that at least rinse your mouth after snacks.

10. constantly snacking

As it is already clear, if always something to chew on, you have to constantly rinse your mouth or brush your teeth, so the food is not stuck between the teeth. But often wield a brush - is also questionable activity, which would not be confused, but can increase tooth sensitivity. It is better to regulate food intake and snacking hard fruits and vegetables that help clean the teeth. For example, apples or carrots.

11. Chew on pencils and pens

Often people worrying or trying to concentrate, chew the tip of a pencil or pen. So can damage teeth or gums. Try to relieve stress harmless ways. For example, a suitable chewing gum without sugar.

12. Drink a lot of coffee

Favorite morning coffee cup, unfortunately, may damage the teeth. because of caffeine a feeling of dryness in the mouth and saliva shortage leads to the development of caries. And if you drink coffee with sugar, this process will accelerate.

13. smoke

Need more reason to quit smoking? You are welcome. Tobacco also dries the oral mucosa, and increases the amount of plaque on the teeth. And even more often in smokers periodontitis. Also smoking increases the risk of cancer of the throat or mouth, and in general tumors in the oral cavity.

14. Drink red wine

Remember how hard to wash off the stain of red wine with white tablecloths. Now imagine that this drink does to your teeth.

Three red wine component stained teeth

• Chromogen which gives a deep color of red wine.
• Acid, which is a little damage enamel, so that dyes easily penetrate into the tooth.
• Tannins - substances which fix the dye in the enamel.

To stained teeth, eating wine protein food (cheese, for example), after a glass of wine, drink clean water or chew gum to allocate more saliva, which will wash away the paint.

Fortunately, the traces of red wine are kept short.

15. Drinking white wine

The white wine is not strong dye, but they can be in the food, which you have a snack. A tannins and acids that white wine is, as in the red, these same dyes fix the teeth. Just watch what you eat, and do not forget that after the use of acid products (wine that is) you can not brush your teeth for 30 minutes, so as not to damage the enamel.

16. Overeat

Compulsive overeating suggests that people consume a lot of sweets, sugar, fast food and everything that contributes to the development of caries.

With overeating starts another eating disorder - bulimia nervosa, when a person consumes food without measures and causes vomiting. Since the contents of the stomach - is an acid, the frequent vomiting leads to the fact that the teeth and the tissue around them are destroyed. Eating disorders are being treated by specialists, and it is not dentists and psychiatrists or psychotherapists.