Orange Juice Can Destroy Your Email

May be not only breakfast you consume a glass of orange juice, but also lunch or break time. Especially when the weather is hot, drink cold orange juice will be taste very delightful and fresh.

But, do you know that lime squash or orange juice which is very sour and contain high acid will break your teeth especially the email? An expert from USA said that, sour/acid fruits are able to destroy your email up to 84%. This was confirm back by Dr Yan-Fang Ren from the Eastman Institute for Oral Health, University of Rochester Medical Center New York. He said that acid is the dominant factor in the process of email damage. He found this thing when he had a research to teeth whitening product where about 6% of the material used for those products is hydrogen peroxide .

Dr Ren said that most soft drinks and fruit juice contain acid are able to break your teeth, especially if you consume it more than 20 days continuously, this will accelerate your teeth damage.

That’s why, experts suggest you all to often brush teeth so the acid residue that cover the email was gone and removed clearly. Besides, don’t too often consume any foods or drinks that taste too sour and contain high acid. Read More..

10 Habits That Destroyed Your Teeth

You think your teeth are pretty healthy because you never feel hurt or pain when you drink or eat something cold or sweet. But, are you really sure your tooth is healthy? Hm, you doubt it! If your teeth start to become yellow because you love drink coffee or your gums looks thinner, that’s the sign that you have serious problem about your tooth. So, please, get extra attention to these next habits to know does your dental health is really keep well.

1. Brushing Teeth Too Hard
Using tooth brush which has strong brush and brushing teeth with high pressure can remove enamel, a tooth protector permanently. This condition stimulates your teeth become too sensitive, make dental cavity, and make gum getting thinner. Better, use soft brush and brush your teeth with circle movement for about 2 minutes, at least twice a day. Tooth brush with slim head can move easily in the small mouth, while longer handle tooth brush more able to reach the molar teeth than the shorter one.

2. Using The Wrong Tooth Paste
Don’t you just believe to tooth paste that claim contains very useful substance. Some tooth paste, especially the "tartar control" can cause abrasion. Tooth paste which contains scrub and hard substance can scrap your enamel and cause your gum thinner. Fluoride tooth paste is enough and good for you.

3. Do Not Use Dental Floss
Bacteria on the teeth can reproduction become plaque, the main cause of dental cavity and gum disease in 24 hours. Use Dental floss once a day to remove plaque.

4. Too Much Drink Soda
Soda drink, including the diet version contains phosphoric acid, which can scrap your teeth slowly. If you used to consume this drink, you can use straw to minimize direct contact to teeth and don’t forget to brush your teeth after that.

5. Food and Drink Remaining Stain
Tooth enamel is like sponge. Food or drink that remain stain on plate or cup, such as coffee, tea, cola drinks, marinara sauce, or soybean sauce, can also make your teeth turn to be yellow slowly. Ask your doctor to do the laser whitening treatment, bleaching, or Prophy Power, a new procedure where sodium bicarbonate (soft whitening agent) mix with strong sprayed water to remove stain without remove enamel. Tooth paste with whitening agent can also whitening your teeth, but it’s little bit too hard for your enamel.

6. Love To Eat Snack
Every time you eat something, especially sweet food or contain flour, bacteria that live inside your mouth will produce acid to break the food. But, this acid can also attack your teeth and make your teeth damaged. As alternative way, you can consume fruits and crispy vegetable (e.g apple or carrot) as main food or snack. Dentists also consider this food as natural tooth brush because they have effect as detergent to remove plaque. Chewing free sugar bubble gum such as xylitol also help you to prevent dental cavity by increasing the production of saliva. Saliva will remove bacteria caused dental cavity.

7. Use Teeth as a Tool or Device
Open potato chip bag which made from aluminum foil or loosing out knot using tooth can make your tooth crack and broken, and also depraved tooth treatment you are going through. Other habit that can damaged your teeth are chewing ice, frozen chocolate, or even hard candy.

8. Disregard Your Problem About Tooth
Bleeding gums and unpleasant smell of your mouth are one of indication that you have problem with your gums. To solve your problem about unpleasant smell of your mouth, you should drink lot of water to keep your mouth humid, and remove excessive bacteria in your mouth by using tongue scrap (sold in pharmacy and supermarket). To prevent gum bleeding, brush your teeth regularly and don’t forget to use dental floss. Go to the dentist if you’re not going well soon.

9. Avoiding Dentist
Very suggested to check your dental health twice a year. But, people often ignore this suggestion. In fact, if you had problem with your gum, at least you should control to your dentist every three months.

10. Ignore Your Lips
No matter how good is your teeth condition, your smile will not look bright if you let your lips dry and crockery. Lip skin which thinner than the other skin, lean to loose its moisture and change along with you getting old. Apply lip balm contains moisturizer everyday will be very helpful. Read More..

Fresh Your Mouth With Parsley

Parsley or Petroselinumm crispum is not only for seasoning or food decoration but also as a herb which well known since centuries ago for medication. Parsley can absorb the wine steam and prevent you to drunk.

Herb expert or pharmacologist uses this herb to treat kidney and gastric disorder, bite insect and infection. As the story goes, parsley came from South Europe or East Mediterranean and this plant was growth only in palace or monastery garden.

But now, parsley has been cultivated, Root Parsley (var. tuberosum) and Soft Parsley. The second type can be eaten so it can be used as ingredient to give aroma in your cooking. The cultivated parsley is used for its leaves, usually for food decoration. The shape is small and the texture is hard as wood.

For hundreds years, this herb has already been used as traditional medicine to treat hypertension, dismenorrhae, enuresis, kidneystone, gallstone, sciatica, glandular inflammation and fresh the respiration.

Parsley was high content for vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin A and C and other components which used to clean toxin inside your body, such as chlorophyll. Parsley also used to treat digestion disorders such as puffed up, water retention, gastric and intestinal disorder, alleviate the pain of rheumatic and gout.

The high content of vitamin C, amino acid, Potassium and folic acid in parsley explained why this herb is good for hearth, digestion, hypertension and inflammation. Parsley also contain anti histamine and antioxidant which help to cope with inflammation.

Parsley also known can stimulate the uterus contraction so it’s advisable for pregnant woman and breastfeeding not to consume it. Parsley also can irritate kidney tissue, that’s why it’s not advisable for them who had kidney infection or other kidney disorder. Don’t consume parsley too much because the oil is toxic and can cause you poisoned

We only get its maximum effect of parsley by keep it fresh. Wrap with wet paper napkin before keep in refrigerator. Don’t cook it too long so the taste and the vitamins not disappear. Put inside the parsley when the cooking is almost done.

Better if you use the fresh parsley rather than the dried one because the dried parsley is not good for your health. You can freeze parsley if you wan to keep it for a long time. Wash it clean, slice it and then keep it inside the refrigerator. Good Luck. Read More..