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Oral hygiene tips : Nutrition hazards

Our nutrition can play an important role in maintaining good oral health. A proper diet must be balanced and to include all the main food groups as : fruits and vegetables, milk products, meat, fish etc.
The dental plaque, the main enemy of your good oral health, is growing feeding itself from the sugar of your food.

The habit of consuming sweets is developed from the very first years of life. In most cases the parents are responsible for it because they give their kids foods with sugar to keep them happy and quiet.

Between meals give to your children fruits, vegetables or cheese instead of cakes or biscuits. They are both nutritious and safe for the teeth. Control the consumption of sugar.

If the kids are encouraged to this type of nutrition from small age they will reduce the sugar consumption for the rest of their life.

Oral hygiene tips : Healthy Nutrition

LITTLE TIPS FOR HEALTHY
NUTRITION
1. Avoid foods with high concentration of sugar (cakes, ice cream, honey...)

2. Prefer foods rich to nutritious ingredients but without sugar (milk, yoghurt, rice, meat, fish, fruits....)

3. Don't consider sweet only the foods with sweet taste. Check the concentration of sugar.

4. Don't forget that many refreshments have a high concentration of sugar.

5. You may consume sweets only at the main meals. Don't eat sweets between meals. (During meals the saliva production is increased neutralizing most of the acids. That's why a sweet during meal is less hazardous than one taken between the meals).

6. It is better to finish your meal with yellow cheese that helps neutralizing the acids in our mouth, especially after the consumption of sweet foods.

7. The foods structure is also important
- wet foods act for only a limited amount of time
- tough foods are the safest because they increase the saliva production and help to the self-cleaning of teeth
- soft and sticky foods are dangerous because they attach and get between the teeth providing a better environment for the bacteria.

Oral hygiene tips : Healthy Foods


	Fish Meat Fresh milk Fresh fruit juices		Yoghurt Vegetables Sugar substitutes Nuts	Cheese Fruits Sugar free gums Wheat bread

Oral hygiene tips : Foods that may cause Tooth Decay


	Sugar Honey Jam Chocolate		Milk with sugar Gums with sugar Refreshments with sugar White bread	Candies Cake Ice cream Biscuits