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Many coffee lovers experience yellow teeth and cavities because they often drink their favorite drinks. To prevent that, this dentist reveals easy tips that you can follow.
Routine drinking coffee has many healthy benefits, but there are also side effects. Two problems that are often seen are yellow stains on teeth and cavities.
Coffee can make yellow teeth because of tannin content. Tanin itself is a natural compound found in plants, including in tea and chocolate.
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While the reason coffee can make cavities is caffeine in coffee that is damaging enamel. The enamel layer will erode until it ultimately damages the inner teeth and easily cavities.
These two problems apparently can be overcome in a simple way. Quote Fortune Well (21/4), a dentist Tyler Hases who exists in Tiktok revealed how.
The doctor in California, the United States explained, “Coffee can trigger cavities if you drink coffee and stick to your teeth for about 30 minutes.”
“When you drink coffee, it’s good to drink faster because the longer the coffee is in your teeth, the more the acidic environment it causes (causing cavities),” explained Hases.
Here are 3 tips for drinking coffee so that teeth are not yellow and cavities:
1. Drink coffee using a straw
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Instead of drinking coffee directly from a cup or glass, it’s better to drink it using a straw. This tool prevents acid from coffee from touching teeth directly. Sedoan also helps prevent stains on teeth.
2. Drink water after drinking coffee
Other tips that can be done, drink water after drinking coffee. Water helps rinse the acid from the coffee left in the mouth. Like saliva, water has a neutral pH which means not acidic or alkaline.
3. Chew sugar free gum
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Another ‘weapon’ to get rid of the risk of yellow and cavities is chewing sugar -free gum after drinking coffee. “Sugar free gum activates the salivary glands. So the more saliva is available, the more neutral the environment in the mouth,” said Hases.
Another way, eating fruit like apples or bananas to fight the acidity of coffee, but avoid sour fruit like oranges.
What about the toothbrush? Hases recommends waiting at least 5-10 minutes after drinking coffee. “The acid environment will soften the enamel. So if you brush your teeth immediately after drinking coffee, you can cause more damage,” he concluded.
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