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Avoid Soft drink to keep up your oral health

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Do you notice that the consumption of soft drink keeps increasing year after year? In most develop and big country, a person can drink about 50 gallons of soft drink per year. Could you imagine that? So, why this can be happen and how this can be a disaster for all of us? The reason is because some important factors such as the sweet taste of soft drink, the cheaper price, and also the strong advertisement from big soda and soft drink companies. These all make the rate of soda and soft drink consumption keeps increasing.

So, what is the problem? Is it wrong to drink soft drink too much? Of course it is, soft drink contains more calories than any type of drink. In exact number soft drink contains nearly 13 percents of calories per can. If we connect this thing with oral health problems, obviously we will see some big problems a soft drink can emerge to your oral health system.

First of all, soft drink contains sugar and acids, those two chemical substances are very dangerous for our teeth health. It can make a cavity or decays on our teeth. Not only sugar, but the problem also comes from the mild acids. For your information, mild acids can eat away and weaken your tooth enamel and eventually your teeth become more sensitive and susceptible to decay.

If you are looking for the solution for this dangerous thread, of course the best way is to stay away from soda and soft drink. Don’t be too paranoia, it is fine to drink soft drink once per 2 days not once everyday, moreover 5 cans per day. Keep your diet from soft drink and you can keep up your oral health.

Oral Health Checklist

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Have you heard the line of: “better prevent than heal.” I’m sure you have heard that sentence. In health section, that sentence tells us that you need to be aware with every symptoms related to certain disease. And this article will explain some symptoms related to certain oral diseases. Here is the oral health checklist that is very important for you to pay intention:

1. Gums
avoid your self from gum cancer which is very dangerous. Always check your gum healthiness like these ways: a healthy gum has a pink color, and don’t bleed when you brush your teeth. You need to pay attention closely to this, seventy five percent of gums diseases suffer were not aware with the symptoms because bleeding gums is often painless. To avoid this you need to check your gum after you brushed your teeth.
2. Bad Breath
based on a study, most people who have bad breath was not aware of their own bad breath. People around them are aware with the bad breath, but they (the suffer) weren’t. It is so bad and so embarrassing. The easiest way to check this is by flossing your teeth. After you floss your teeth, try to smell your dental floss, if it smells awful, you have to gargle with saline water and chew a fresh chewing gum.
3. Dry Mouth
avoid dry mouth! It has very bad effect for your oral health system. Lack of salivation can accelerate gum problem and tooth decays. The only way to keep you mouth wet is by drinking more water and gargling more often.

Those are the important checklist to maintain your oral health, keep your eyes on the list and you’ll see a great result in your oral health.