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Soft drink and the deffects on your teeth

This article below is quite extreme but it does show the devastation that soft drink can have on your teeth and your overall health! Source :http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/soft-drink-addict-william-kennewell-loses-all-his-teeth-at-the-age-of-25/story-e6frea83-1226570295887   WILLIAM Kennewell says he is living proof of the damage soft drinks can cause to your teeth and health. For three years, the 25-year-old drank between six and eight litres of soft drink each day – an addiction he struggled to kick. The Salisbury North resident ignored dentists’ warnings about the problems his dangerous habit was causing and has since had all his rotten teeth removed and replaced with dentures. “I’m told a normal person has about 23 teeth, but … I only had 13 left and they had to be removed,” he said. “It started because I wasn’t a huge water fan and working in the hotel industry, I had easy access to Coke. “Because my teeth were decaying so badly, it caused blood poisoning which just made me sick, but my health improved with the dentures.”   Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health senior research fellow Dr Jason Armfield has called for health warnings on labels to include the risks of tooth decay. Dr Armfield is also the lead author of a study of 16,800 Australian children that found 56 per cent of those aged between five and 16 consumed at least one sweet drink, such as soft drink or juice, each day. Australian Beverages Council chief executive Geoff Parker said it was important to teach children early on about good dental hygiene: “However, singling out one particular part of the diet is a misguided approach to dealing with...

Can having poor dental health have an impact on your psychological wellbeing?

Can having poor dental health have an impact on your psychological wellbeing? According to Robert Anders of Rockefeller Center Orthodontics the answer is ‘Yes’. However,  as Dr Anders points out repairing your teeth also improves your mental health. We all know that poor dental health can affect your overall general health, but it has now been found that it can also affect your mental well-being. Just think about it. Your mouth is frequently the focus in social situations. When you smile, laugh, eat or drink, or just chat your mouth is often the centre of attention so it makes sense that if you are self – conscious about your teeth you will feel uncomfortable or embarrassed and this can trigger psychological problems like anxiety, low self esteem or even depression. It’s easy to see how this could happen. The first thing we do when we meet someone is smile and say hello. If you have poor teeth you may avoid smiling and come across as unfriendly or aloof. You might even think that people are making judgements about you based on the state of your teeth. This can easily develop into a cycle where you avoid social contact or become self critical. The good news is that improving your dental health can contribute to better self esteem, more confidence and improved psychological health. So get serious about dental health. It will improve not only your teeth but your mental health as well! Taken from an article by Robert Anders for the Public Health Bugle. For the full article see: http://publichealthbugle.com/2012/07/smile/ Having read this post do you want to take...

Study finds historic root to tooth decay

Here is a bit of interesting reading for you. An article from: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/health/2013/02/19/14/02/study-finds-historic-root-of-tooth-decay People can brush their teeth as much as they like, but our mouths will never be as healthy as those of our ancient ancestors. Modern food, particularly processed sugar and flour, has decreased the amount of good bacteria in the human mouth, allowing bad bacteria to take over, which results in tooth decay and gum disease. The human mouth is in “a permanent state of disease”, says Professor Alan Cooper, director of the University of Adelaide Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD). A team led by Prof Cooper’s centre has published research in the journal Nature Genetics. They studied teeth from prehistoric northern European human skeletons and found oral bacteria in modern man are much less diverse than historic populations. “We tend not think of ourselves from a bacterial perspective, but 90 per cent of our cells are bacteria,” Prof Cooper told AAP on Tuesday. The loss of diversity of bacteria “is nearly always associated with disease” and has been linked to obesity, autism and diabetes. The best things humans can do is reduce processed sugars and carbohydrates in their diet. “It is best to eat a wide variety of organic locally produced fresh foods,” says Prof Cooper. Children should be allowed to play outside and “get dirty and be exposed to microbes”. The rampant use of antibiotics is something else that is quite concerning, particularly in children, he says. Mouthwash probably also does more harm than good, by removing the diversity that can suppress disease-causing bacteria, he says. According to the research, the composition of oral bacteria...

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