With the record breaking temperatures this week you most likely stayed cool by having a big glass full of your favorite drink. You may want to re-consider your drink choice when it comes to the health of your teeth.
Decay is primarily caused by bacteria in your mouth that love to live in
acid (pH below 5.5) and eat sugar. At a pH of 5.5 or below teeth start to demineralize (acid erode). See the chart below:
The number of times you sip your drink also plays a major role. Do you chug all at once, or do you sip throughout the day? The Wisconsin Dental Association ran several adds on TV educating patients that it is much more harmful to sip on a beverage all day vs drinking the beverage in a short period of time.
So you say great! I am doing good. I drink bottled water. It may surprise you, but some brands of bottled water actually have a low pH: Smart water (5.9), Perrier (5.53) Aquafina (5.35), Vitamin Water (3.34), Dasani Plus (3.04).
In fact it is probably best just to get a cold glass of water right out of the kitchen tap. Wendy Hobson MD (Uof U survery Utahoral health conference 2005) reported that two key reasons to discourage the use of bottled water are its exorbitant costs, and it lack of fluoride. SaltLake and Davis counties public tap water is fluoridated, unfortunately Weber county is not.
Cost comparison of 20 gallons of water (2005 survey)
Tap water 12 cents/20 gallons
Filtered tap water 2 dollars/20 gallons
Bottled Water 20 dollars/20 gallons
Hope this helps, stay hydrated and cool. If a cool beverage can’t cool you down then maybe you should make your own backyard waterslide.
Check out this youtube link for homemade waterslides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYy1VMB_Cg
Jared Wolthuis
Canyon Dental Group
801-399-5831
So you say great! I am doing good. I drink bottled water. It may surprise you, but some brands of bottled water actually have a low pH: Smart water (5.9), Perrier (5.53) Aquafina (5.35), Vitamin Water (3.34), Dasani Plus (3.04).
In fact it is probably best just to get a cold glass of water right out of the kitchen tap. Wendy Hobson MD (Uof U survery Utahoral health conference 2005) reported that two key reasons to discourage the use of bottled water are its exorbitant costs, and it lack of fluoride. SaltLake and Davis counties public tap water is fluoridated, unfortunately Weber county is not.
Cost comparison of 20 gallons of water (2005 survey)
Tap water 12 cents/20 gallons
Filtered tap water 2 dollars/20 gallons
Bottled Water 20 dollars/20 gallons
Hope this helps, stay hydrated and cool. If a cool beverage can’t cool you down then maybe you should make your own backyard waterslide.
Check out this youtube link for homemade waterslides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYy1VMB_Cg
Jared Wolthuis
Canyon Dental Group
801-399-5831
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