Habits you MUST avoid if you want a healthy teeth – You might think you have great oral hygiene if you brush and flossregularly and steer clear of Laffy Taffy. But many seemingly innocent everyday habits can damage your teeth—causing decay, eroding enamel, or literally cracking teeth in half.
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“Tooth enamel is extremely hard, but it’s not resistant to everything,” says Alex Sharifian, D.D.S., a Smile Generation–affiliated dentist in Irvine, CA.
So if you want to keep your teeth strong and healthy, dentists recommend cutting out the following habits.
1. CHEWING ON ICE
You could easily chip or even break a tooth or dislodge a filling if you chew on ice.
“It’s essentially chewing rocks,” says Jonathan Schwartz, D.D.S., a family and cosmetic dentist at Manhattan Dental Health and an associate professor of clinical dentistry at Columbia College in New York City.
“While our teeth are covered by the hardest material in our bodies, they are not designed to hold up to that kind of stress,” he says.
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