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You might be a morning drinker after brushing your teeth and drinking tea and coffee. Or a person who drinks tea or coffee and pulls his teeth.
Have you ever wondered which of the two habits is better, anyway? I mean, have you ever wondered if it is a good habit to eat after brushing your teeth or is it a good habit to brush your teeth after eating?
If yes, you may have another question, what is the best way to avoid tea, coffee or other food products that we consume from staining our teeth? Coffee and tea are popular beverages. When these enter the mouth they inevitably come into contact with the teeth.
Coffee is an acidic liquid – coffee ranks 5 on the pH scale of 1 to 14. It also contains tannins, which can promote staining of teeth.
But why do these stains form? Before answering this question, it is important to know that there are two types of stains.
1. Inner banks,
2. External stains are the two types.
Internal calculus are those that can form beneath the tooth enamel.
Some of these types of blemishes can be congenital. Some are caused by highly fluoridated water. Doctors say that tooth decay and certain types of antibiotics can cause internal ulcers.
External ridges are more common and are on the surface of the tooth. Such external stains are caused by pigments in coffee, tea, red wine, soft drinks, fruit juices, betel nut, panparak etc.
“Beverages like coffee or wine have brown, red colors, so they stain teeth like they stain clothes,” Emily Anderson, a dental hygienist at the Florida Association of Dental Hygienists (USA), told the BBC.
However, among foods that leave their mark on the teeth, coffee is not the worst. “It doesn’t stain like red wine or some types of tea,” says Andre Reiss, associate professor of dentistry at the University of Florida.
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Tooth stain.
Yellow beach…
A phrase we hear a lot in toothpaste commercials is turmeric. In English it is called a block (plaque).
It’s actually a bunch of bacteria stuck to the bottom of the tooth like dirt.
This bacterial population is formed by feeding on the sugar that enters your mouth. Bacteria that accumulate in this way secrete acids. This acid can attack and damage your teeth. “Actually, it’s the sugar in the mouth that causes this damage,” says Anderson.
These blocks can absorb color. With drinks like coffee, “you’ll see stains between your teeth and on your gums because that’s where the plaque builds up,” says Anderson.
Tartar?
Tartar is another word that gets thrown around in dental advertisements.
If plaque stays on your tooth for a long time, it will thicken and form tartar.
Most stains can be removed by a dentist.
Although the period varies from person to person, on average, teeth should be cleaned twice a year to remove plaque and tartar. This will make the stain disappear.
If this is not enough, the doctor will use carbamide peroxide or hydrogen peroxide for whitening. (Doing so without a doctor’s help can worsen the condition).
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The answer to why plaque builds up on teeth is usually the same.
“For most people, external stains occur because they don’t brush their teeth properly. They don’t floss and remove the stains between teeth properly,” Anderson explains.
Brush the tooth by moving the brush up and down parallel to the space between the two teeth.
In this way brush the entire circle and three sides. Brush your teeth twice a day. Floss at least once.
It is not necessary to press hard with the brush to remove dirt, bacteria etc.
Conversely, doing so can damage the gums. As suggested by the American Dental Association, Anderson recommends brushing twice a day.
But in many Latin American countries, dental associations recommend brushing three times a day,” says Reyes, a Brazilian.
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It is clear that you should brush your teeth after eating lunch and dinner. But there are different customs as far as the question of whether to brush teeth before breakfast or after is concerned.
Some do it earlier and others do it later. Doing it before drinking coffee has benefits. At night, the plaque that forms in the mouth is removed, so the color of the drink does not stick so easily. However, both Anderson and Reiss agree that it’s best to do it after breakfast.
“If you do this you won’t develop plaque in your mouth in the long run,” says Reyes.
“Brushing your teeth before drinking those drinks doesn’t help, because the problem builds over time. You don’t just drink coffee once. Stains and plaque build up over time,” says Anderson.
The healthiest thing for oral hygiene is not to brush your teeth immediately after eating, but to wait half an hour.
“Our teeth demineralize and regenerate every day. When acids enter the mouth and bacteria produce acid with sugar, the tooth enamel is attacked by acid,” explains the expert.
“When that process happens, the tooth enamel is affected. So it’s best not to over-brush,” he says.
Dental hygienist advice is to gargle and drink water after eating to reduce the contact of acids with the enamel – and thereby reduce the chance of staining”.
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