Oral Health Care: Dietary Habits and Oral Health

This article discusses the importance of oral health care and the impact of dietary habits on oral health. It explores the relationship between dietary choices and general health and wellbeing. The article emphasizes the need for proper oral hygiene practices and making healthy food choices to maintain good 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

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hole inside the tooth. Thus not brushing in the morning is cannot acceptable. Then we can see that he had
taken too much amount of carbohydrates which is also the primary cause behind the decay. Two
tablespoon sugar, sweet biscuits, full cream milk all have rich amount of not only carbohydrates they
consists high amount of fat also (3). This kind of things charged those bacterias inside the mouth to make
more acids which are making more plaques. Then his intakes jam and butter both consecutively. Jams are
made up off rich sugar additives and butter is consists of rich carbohydrates. Both are not good for normal
metabolism. This will affect the digestive system of human both which will affect the gums first. For this
reason gums will become sore and sometimes gingivitis also. Gingivitis occurs due to the bacterial attack
and results bleeding, swelling and inflammation from the gums (14, p. 61). This kind problem occurs due
to lack of vitamin c. vitamin c deficiency also causes scarves as well. at lunch he took noodles, coffee and
chocolates rapidly. Chocolates are very harmful for teeth. It is the primary reason behind the tooth cavity
or decay. At night we can see he took one full packet of jelly beans. Jelly beans are generally made up of
high sugar additives (4, p. 245). These kinds of things are very harmful for oral health and hygiene. In day
one he in took large amount of jelly beans which are not negligible in terms of oral safety. Finally he
managed some time to brush his teeth. Brushing teeth at night is also most important measure we need to
follow and maintain.
In day two he again forgot to brush his teeth in the morning which actually reveals that how much that
person is less concern about his oral health. In day two he again took jelly beans at a very large amount.
These things must not entertain in terms of good health and oral hygiene (5, p. 792). In day three he
finally brushed his teeth in the morning. He in took large amount of chocolates and additive preservatives,
chips are very harmful for not only his oral health and safety also for his digestive system as well.
How the dietary habits detrimental to oral health relate to general health and
wellbeing:
Dietary habits Dietary Habit Considerations for Oral/General evidence

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health
Sugar intake Young people especially
children love cold drinks,
energy drinks, readymade fruit
juice. Those are made up od
monosaccharides, disaccharides.
This kind of sugars must be
avoided.
We need to avoid junk food as
well as they consists of high
unsaturated fats.
As per the WHO guidline among
10% sugar intake everyday will
not harmful for us. Junk foods
will encourage the bacteria inside
our mouth and forms plaque
which makes cavity on our teeth
(12, p. 2).
nutrition We need to take proper amount
of dietary foods. Foods like
vegetables, fruits as they are
easily digestible and full of
vitamins and minerals also. We
need to avoid preserved foods as
those are preserved with harmful
chemicals.
According to the Australian
health guideline we need to take
vegetable which are easily
digestible like pumpkin, spinach,
green beans, carrots, etc and
fruits like melon, papaya, apple,
and banana.
Water consumption We need to consume around 3-4
lit of water on daily basis. Means
we need to intake around 8- 10
glasses of water daily.
We should take water in glass not
from the bottle. At the time of
water intake air we must
remember that air should not
passes through.

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Fluoride intake We must use fluoride paste This can easily kill the bacteria’s
inside our mouth
Protective food We should not take protective
food. Instead of that we must
take fresh foods.
They will add harmful chemicals
which may cause cancer
sometimes.
Tooth brushing We need to brush our teeth twice
a day. And need to wash our
mouth every single time after
food intake (6).
Brushing process must be very
slow. We need to brush our teeth
taking time.
recommendation As per my understanding food
plays very important part for oral
health. Food controls the
metabolism and digestive system.
Bacteria are generally generated
from improper digestion.
We need to consider and follow
all the guidelines given by WHO
and Australian health association.
This will made to help us only.
These are the general health guidelines. But WHO gives us some basic oral health guidelines which are as
follows:
 To maintain our oral health healthy we need to clean our teeth on daily basis. As we all know the
basis principle of oral health is clean and clear teeth. We need to brush our teeth twice in a day.
Once in the morning and once in the night before getting into bed. This process should not be
done in rush. We need to brush our teeth taking time (7, p. 755).
 We must brush our teeth with proper brush which have soft and smooth bristled and we need to
use proper fluoride paste as fluoride can clean our teeth very easily.
 We need to change our tooth brush after every 3 months as the bristled got harden and that may
cause harm in our gum.

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 We need to gargle and wash our mouth properly after every meal we have taken time to time.
Poor dietary choices, frequency and amount of food consumed
Healthy food habit s not only beneficial for oral health it is also beneficial for the whole human metabolic
system and mental health also. Australian diet and guideline and the guidelines of WHO introduce the
most common and effective guidelines for human being to reduce any kind of health related problems.
Most of the people in Australia can afford hygienic, healthy and nutritious foods (8, p. 160). But most of
them choose to intake fast foods instead as they are more tasty and delicious than other nutritious foods
and vegetables. This will not only affect our digestive system, it will affect our immune system also.
These guidelines are as follows:
Australian health and dietary guidelines:
 To maintain the health and weight it is must for a human to do regular exercise at least for an
hour. One hour exercise can balance the metabolism inside the body system. With the help of the
exerciser blood circulation will become normal also and people who are suffering with stress and
anxiety and some sort of mental illness will found peace and felt relax.
 Physical activity is necessary will a proper diet. Like we need to take nutritious foods daily. This
will gives us proper amount of energy (9, p. 135).
 Nutritious foods are not only proteins we need to consume lots of vegetables and fruits also. From
non-veg foods we can consume only saturated proteins. But from vegetables and fruit we can
consume various amounts of vitamins and minerals as well. This will helps to protect not only our
immune system also it can protects our body structure (bones) as well. Our bones will get
adequate amount of calcium. This calcium also protects our teeth.
 Animal proteins are consists of high amount of saturated fats. Saturated fats are important for our
growth but the consumption should be in limit. We should avoid from consuming sugar, salt and

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addictive products like alcohols, cigarettes as well. Excessive amount of slat consumption may
cause the hypertension which is normally known as high blood pressure. Similarly consuming
high amount of sugar may cause the diabetes. Excessive amount of sugar consumption can also
damage our teeth (10, p. 104).
 New mothers should be encouraged for feeding their new born from their breast. In such time
breast milk is the only food that will help to grow those newborn’s bone density, helps to have a
normal metabolism. Breast milk will make a child stronger and sharper.
 We must need to intake fresh foods. Foods which are preserved for future use always adding
some kind of harmful chemicals. Sometime peope adding preservatives to prevent them from
stink. Thus we need to avoid those kinds of food instead we must consume fresh foods and
vegetables as well (11, p. 28).
Conclusion:
Here we can see that the student is taking too much cold drinks, chips, sweet candies and sugar. All of
them are very bad for oral health this will not only damage our teeth it will damage our gums also. This
kind of food can damage the nerves in our gums which may cause sinusitis. In his case he must stop
eating those junk foods and sweets as they are bad for not only his oral health those are bad for his
digestive system as well.

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