eating lemons and tooth erosion?
okay, i love to eat lemons with salt.
i don't do it every day, it's usually just once in a while... like maybe 3 or 4 times a month...
but i also make lemonade once in a while (juice of two lemons, honey, water) and i also LOVE grapefruits
everybody keeps telling me to stop eating these things because i'll lose the enamel on my teeth...
my teeth are a tiny bit transparent on the bottom, but they have ALWAYS been like that, since i got my adult teeth, and i never noticed a significant change in them.
i'm a sour fiend, and i love acidic foods...but is eating lemons just a few times a month REALLY going to destroy my teeth?
is there anything i can do before or after eating them to protect my teeth?
(aside from getting enamel toothpastes)
Do lemons and limes have the same health benefits?
I normally drink a glass of warm water with half a lemon squeezed into it every morning, but lately i've been using limes because they taste better and are easier to squeeze (?) lol. however, i was wondering, do they have the same health benefits or should I switch back to lemons?
Why do I keep getting so many cavities?
I have never had a problem with my dental hygiene, but ever since I have turned 14, I have been getting so many cavities. Last year was the worst with 9 cavities all at once. Since then I have limited sugar drinks, I mainly drink water. I use to eat lemons, but I no longer do because the dentist said it was contributing to the formation of cavities. I also limited the candy I eat, and I now use sugarless gum. I brush and floss twice a day, and use fluoride mouth wash. I still, however, had 2 cavities at my last check up, and I may actually need a root canal. Why do I so much trouble with my teeth? I am trying to do everything that the dentists say, but I still keep getting cavities.
Teeth hurt! What can I do? :/?
I drink soda, and sometimes I bite down on lemons with my front teeth, ha. :/
Thus, I know that the reason for the transparency at the tips of my front four teeth is due to acid erosion.
However, now, every time I eat something very hot or something cool, my front teeth hurt!
Is this a serious issue, and is there anything a dentist can do to take away the transparency, like file down my teeth . . . ? Thank you. :)
Are soft teeth further harmed by vigorous cleanings by a hygenist?
I have severely soft enamel on my teeth. No, I'm not, nor have I ever been, bulimic, I do not suffer from acid reflux, and I do not chew icecubes or suck lemons, I have no medical conditions and am in excellent health, and my mother did not take any drugs, prescription or otherwise, while she was pregnant with me (all things that could cause such severe erosion.) My problems are simply genetic.
Anyway, with enamel as soft as mine (my dentist has "diagnosed" it as being just slightly above the softest level of enamel possible) could the hard scrapings from the cleaning tools actually WORSEN my chipped and eroded enamel? Two months after my last cleaning two teeth wore down rapidly and needed to be built up and bonded yesterday (I've got 11 crowns as well.) Every time I go for a cleaning I wince at how hard the hygenists scrape and pick at my poor enamel, while lecturing ME to not crunch anything too hard.
Could it be be beneficial to insist the hygenists stop the hard scrapings?
Also, I should mention, hygiene is not an issue as I brush and floss properly, regularly. My dentist is actually suprised that there is no decay anywhere on my teeth despite missing enamel. In other words, these hygenists really don't have all that much to scrape; when they do it so hard, I really think there are times they are actually flaking off my enamel. I felt two rough spots on my lower back molar after my last cleaning, and with a flashlight discovered to small missing pieces of enamel that WEREN'T missing before.
Is there a way to make the teeth's dentine strong?
My daughter, now in her mid-thirties, use to eat raw lemons and still likes very acid food. This has affected her teeth which are now brittle and starting to crack and split. She practices good oral hygiene and sees the dentist several times a year. Our dentist told her to stop eating acid food and warned her there could be problems as she got older.
Last week a piece of one of her front teeth broke off and needed to be filled. This could happen to other teeth.
How do we improve the health and strength of her teeth?