How bad is Soda?!
Question: What if you swished your teeth with soda?
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How bad is soda for your teeth
Answers: What if you swished your teeth with soda?
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How bad is soda for your teeth
Teenage girls who drink too much soda have an increased risk of developing osteoporosis and broken bones. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has stated that three cans of soda/day poses a serious risk for teenage boys. Males in the 12-29 age range are the largest group of soda drinkers. Health risks from over consumption include diabetes, kidney stones, obesity, osteoporosis, and tooth destruction.
What about the contents of soda or should we say Liquid Candy? Soda contents include a high fructose corn syrup, additive dye, acid, and caffeine. An average can of soda has approximately 10-12tsp of sugar or 40-48 grams, carbonic or phosphoric acid, and some like Mountain Dew have 55mg of caffeine.
Incidentally, an adult No Doze contains 95mg of caffeine. The fructose syrup has zero nutritional value. Caffeine, a mildly addictive stimulant, causes calcium excretion which can lead to increased risk of osteoporosis and kidney stones.
The addictive nature of caffeine has led to habitual consumption of some of these beverages. Some individuals are actually allergic to the food dyes that are added for coloring.
Health Consequences of Soda Consumption
Let's discuss the oral health consequences. Most people will say the sugar in the soda is bad and will cause tooth decay and obesity. The real danger here is the acid!
Sugar vs. Acid
Soda pop damage to teeth Ask the Dentist Mitchell Pohl The carbonic or phosphoric acid dissolves the calcium out of the enamel leaving a softened matrix for bacteria to enter the teeth and cause wholesale carious destruction. So drinking sugar free sodas is not the answer.
The individuals we see range from a mild decalcification of teeth where there are white bands of softened enamel circling the teeth at the gum line to cases where numerous teeth are totally destroyed from decay.
Many of these individuals are students who would study and continuously sip soda creating an acid bath for their teeth. Now let's not forget the fact that sugar itself is converted to acid by the bacteria on the teeth for an additional insult. If you couple all this with poor oral hygiene, you have an oral disaster in the making.
Very bad. Why would you want to swoosh with it?
It is full of sugar and chemicals. Brush your teeth after you drink a soda. It has more sugar in it than candy.
if you take your baby tooth in a cup full of soda it would disintegrate in 3 days that's what would happen if you didn't brush your teeth after having soda
It can be pretty harsh on your teeth but never brush your teeth right after drinking soda, that can do even worse damage, your teeth are still coated in it and it'd act like a sandpaper on the tooth enamel. Best is to swish with water after drinking it or chew sugarless gum to build up your natural saliva as a defense to it.
Very bad. Soda contains acids which eat away at the enamel of your teeth causing cavities & erosion of tips of teeth.
Diet is worse than regular because of artificial sweetener.
Well, the sugar acts as a growth medium for bacteria, which produce acids that can eat at your teethe ad cause decay. But really, the biggest source of tooth erosion from soda is from those sodas that contain phosphoric acid, mostly colas and some root beers and grape sodas. Phosphoric acid is very strong.
But you are in far more danger of getting diabetes from consuming the sugars in the sodas.
Best bet: drink diet sodas that don't contain phosphoric acid. Since I drink soda for the caffeine, my drink of choice is diet mountain dew. Yes, I'm diabetic.
Soda is pure acid and will erode the enamel on your teeth over time (along w/ sucking on lemons, grapefruit and eating Sa Lemon). Eventually, you will have the dentin on your occlusion exposed and you will be sensitive whenever yoiu drink or eat certain things.
Bad: combination of factors: Carbonated water in them will blow you up like at toad fog for starters.:
Acids they contain are hard on the stomach:
The sugar they contain is like dessert to the bacteria that decays your teeth.
Try this something: Everytime I go a few weeks without drinking soda then drink one. The carbonation in them makes me feel like a balloon when it expands.