Dental Carries, a preventable disease

According to licensed Doctors, the word caries is Latin for rot or rotten. Literally when you visit the dentist and get a cavity filled, it is because your tooth is rotting or in other words, dying. Rotting teeth are the signs of the disease, dental carries. (Mount 3) Unlike other diseases, caries are not life threatening. Most people do experience the disease with some degree in their life. Our teeth all naturally have bacteria on them. The bacteria are striving to survive and in order to do so they must receive some nutrition. All of the food, especially our carbohydrates, provide an excellent source to the bacteria’s reproduction. (Buckland) Bacteria uses the sug

I learned a lot of valuable infomation through my research on tooth decay. I never realized that eating a right, balanced diet had such an enormous effect on my teeth. It is

and with time, it weekens teeth and damages enamel. So if you eat those types of food, especially with sugar, and not brush your teeth soon after, you are almost directly asking for your tooth to rot. (Buckland 1)

Last, the most important and simple aspect of prevention to tooth decay, is to make a routine lifestyle to eat healthy diet. Sweets and sugary foods should be eaten sparingly since these are the foods that put your teeth at an extra high risk for tooth decay. Some foods have been prooven to be dental healthy from studies. Such foods are nuts, raw vegetalbes, cheese plain yogurt etc. can actually help reduce dental carries. Also if you rinse your mouth out if also helps protect your teeth by reducing the acidicty. Consistent visits to the Dentist are necessary to keep up oral health. (Wardlaw 133) Recently at a Dentist appointment I had a talk with my dentist on this matter. I expressed some concerns, including my favorite thing, bubble gum! He advised me, “bubble gum should only be chewed once in a while. When you do chew it, make sure you brush immediately after.” He reassured me that by doing this I could decrease my chance of developing tooth decay. (Hart, personal interview)

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