The Truth About Dental Health And Hard Candy

 

The hard truth about children’s dental health and hard candy is that hard candies wreak havoc on children’s teeth. While tasty Life Savers, Blow Pops, and Jolly Ranchers are wildly popular with kids, they are never popular choices in the eyes of parents and dentists.

Crunching these hard candies can adversely affect your child’s dental health in several ways.

 

Cavities

 

Hard candies are generally full of sugars and are eaten over several minutes if not hours. Children may tuck a sugary hard candy away in a cheek for minutes and hours, putting the tooth enamel in direct contact with cavity producing sugars for extended periods of time. For this reason, if you are going to give your children hard candies as a treat, you should only select sugar free options.

 

You Could Break Your Teeth

 

Your kid also can endure broken teeth caused by hard candy, as they can break the top of teeth. Many youngsters cannot refrain from the impulse to bite and chew hard candies and the strain of breaking down these treats often ends in damaged children’s teeth. If you cannot bear to limit the kids from eating hard candy, be certain they do not chew on it.

 

Broken Orthodontics

 

Should you have braces, a retainer or fillings, having hard candy can be a bad idea as it can destroy these. These stiff treats are infamous for dislodging, breaking, or damaging dental work in adults and youngsters. A youngster with braces or even a retainer has to be entirely kept faraway from hard candy, totally.

 

Mouth Sores

 

If your youngster hazardously falls asleep with hard candy in their oral cavity, they could get mouth sores. The concentrated sugars in hard candies can easily erode the liner of the mouth and tongue and cause mouth sores

 

Obtaining awesome dental health and being a hard candy addict don’t occur at the same time. Hard candies may result in dental carries, mouth sores, broken teeth, and broken dental appliances and orthodontics.

 

When possible, swap hard candy with sugar free candy or softer candy selections. Confer with your pediatric dentist regarding the hazards of hard candies and their effects on your child’s dental health before buying another roll of Life Savers or bag of lollipops.

 

Bloch Dentistry Center specializes in a wide range of dental services including: general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, veneers, dental implants, root canals, periodontic treatments, and reconstructive dentistry.

Call our friendly staff to schedule an appointment at (305)385-5555 or visit our website at http://www.BlochDentistry.com  We want to see you smile!

Black Raspberries May Fight Oral Cancer

A Berry Good Proposition: Black Raspberries May Fight Oral Cancer

In the mood for something sweet? Consider a handful of black raspberries!

 

Researchers at Ohio State's James Cancer Hospital have shown that black raspberries may not only help prevent colon and esophageal cancer, but help battle oral cancer as well.

 

Lab tests show that this delicious fruit reduced tumors on the mouth by up to 44 percent.

Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems...

First off, black raspberries are very difficult to come by in your regular grocery story,

even when in season. Having access to them year-round could be quite a task .Second,

studies show you would have to eat about 4 whole cups a day to enjoy the full health

benefits. Very few of us actually eat the recommended 5 servings a day of fruit. Finding

the time, and stomach, to eat 4 cups of raspberries could be difficult, no matter how

delicious they are.

Fortunately, scientists are working on a solution: lozenges. They hope that

concentrating the cancer-fighting chemicals in black raspberries into more manageable

lozenges will prove to be as successful in the fight against oral cancer as eating the

whole fruit (though nutritionists will tell you the whole fruit is always better for you). If

researchers find that certain genes respond to the berry extract in them, it could

someday mean a simple new way to fight cancer. They would also be available year -

round.

It should be noted that fruit is part of a healthy diet, and therefore good for your teeth.

Highly acidic fruits, like lemons, can actually harm tooth enamel, however, so try to rinse

your mouth out with warm water or brush your teeth after you eat them. Also, stay away

from high-sugar snacks, like candy and soda (and yes, even black raspberry cobbler).

Bloch Dentistry Center specializes in a wide range of dental services including: general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening, veneers, dental implants, root canals, periodontic treatments, and reconstructive dentistry.

Call our friendly staff to schedule an appointment at (305)385-5555 or visit our website at http://www.BlochDentistry.com. We want to see you smile!