Drinks And Tooth Enamel

Possibly one of the most important things in your body are your teeth and caring for them is a critical job. Tooth enamel is only repairable to an extent, once you get to a certain point you will require tooth bonding or crowns. With a rapid increase in Americas consumption of sugary or highly caffeinated drinks also comes more teeth problems in children. Drinking liquids high in sugar creates a bacteria that causes an acid that eats away at your enamel. Not only that, but those drinks contain acid themselves which further contributes to the problem. Most people believe that drinking diet sodas eliminates but that statement is completely false. In an experiment conducted by Matthew M. Rodgers at University of Michigan it was revealed that diet sodas corroded tooth enamel faster. …show more content…
Tooth decay affects more than one-fourth of children in this country and 90 percent of people over 40. However, there are other factors to tooth decay such as receding gums and mouth dryness which are commonly found in older adults. Studying how drinks affect the color of your teeth using egg shells and a variety of drinks is the closest to doing it with real teeth. Egg shells are close to teeth because they are both made of calcium and stain the same way. The only difference is the fact that eggshells are made of calcium carbonate and teeth are made calcium phosphate. That difference only affects the brittleness of the eggshells so that won’t negatively affect the