Oral Health Care: Dietary Habits and Oral Health

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Oral health care
ORAL HEALTH

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Contents
Introduction:................................................................................................................................................3
Dietary habits, food and beverage type and intake that contributes to dental problems:..............................3
How the dietary habits detrimental to oral health relate to general health and wellbeing:...........................5
Poor dietary choices, frequency and amount of food consumed..................................................................7
Conclusion:..................................................................................................................................................8
References:..................................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction:
Smile is the biggest asset for every mankind. To make our smile brighter it is very important to take a
good care of our oral health and hygiene. But most of us taking our oral health and hygiene very casually,
mostly took it as granted. We all know that our mouth is basically considered as the window, through
which anybody can see or can assume our health condition. Bad conditioned teeth, gum can easily how
the deficiency of the nutritious in our health. To maintain the oral hygiene we must need to follow some
measures such as we need to brush at least twice in a day, we need to change our tooth brush at least after
3 months, we need to take highly nutritious foods and need to avoid junk foods and sweets.
Dietary habits, food and beverage type and intake that contributes to dental
problems:
Poor dietary habits and consuming heavy amount of oily or spicy food can make our oral health weaker
and less healthy. Consuming high amount of sweet and beverages not only bad for health it is bad for oral
heath also. This will arouse the gum problem initially then it will damage the whole systems in our
mouth. We all know our mouth is connected directly to our brain through our sensory nerves. Our eyes
and ears are also connected (1, p. 609). Thus if somehow our oral health gets affected because of our own
negligence’s it may also affect our ears, eyes sometimes our nervous system also.
In this case we can understand that the student is ignoring his oral health frequently and took it for
granted. In his three day’s meal record plan we can see first day he completely forget to brush his teeth in
the morning. This is really very unhygienic. It is very necessary to brush our teeth in the morning as
microbes are creating plaques and making their infectious actions mostly in the night at the time in our
sleep. Plaque is formed when acid, microbes or bacteria, saliva and food particles are mixed in the mouth
(13, p. 18). Those microbes and plaque are the main reason behind the tooth cavity or decay (2, p. 86).
These plaques basically attacks the enamel the outer most and the strongest layer of our tooth and make