How the fuck do you avoid acidic foods for dental health when nearly every food is acidic? I swear, teeth should be replaceable like when we were kids and had extras in our mouth. Or like fingernails. Stupid body.

>>16707996 (OP)
>when nearly every food is acidic?
It's not, you eat to much sugar, which is the cocaine for bacteria causing cavities.
Picrel, you cant avoid time and genetic issue, but you can avoid sugar and you can brush at least your teeth once a day.
No more soda.
No more popsicle.
Never again, except before you know you're gonna brush your teeth.

>>16708005
>you cant avoid time
just brush your teeth after each meal, that reduces the time those bacteria have to eat sugar from your mouth. Failing that I know chew sticks are pretty good for the same thing.

>>16707996 (OP)
just clean your teeth retard

>>16708009
>brush your teeth after each meal
your enamel isn’t indestructible by the way. If you wanted to be this OCD you’re better off just flossing insteas but you really don’t have to do this shit unless every meal you have is slop.
you know we went 100s of thousands of years getting by without fluoride toothpaste. This is because we actually chewed hard shit. don’t let your gums atrophy and don’t eat chocolate cake 5 times a day

OP is just a fat chud, that’s all it is he just said everything is acidic lmao he doesn’t even know what real home cooked meals are

>>16707996 (OP)
>How the fuck do you avoid acidic foods for dental health when nearly every food is acidic?
Don't eat them? What kind of question even is that?
>nearly every food is acidic?
Acidity is a scale. Dental erosion only starts happening below 5.5 give or take. Most foods are above, around or only slightly below that. If you count out processed foods, you're only left with citrus, and these are easy enough to flush out with water.
>I swear, teeth should be replaceable like when we were kids and had extras in our mouth.
What do you think wisdom teeth are?
>Or like fingernails
Teeth are complex and metabolically taxing organs made out of many different tissues and developed the strength they have precisely so they don't have to keep growing. Fingernails are just keratin.

>>16708009
>just brush your teeth after each meal
Brushing right after eating acidic foods is bad. Your enamel is softened at that time. Yuo brush after and before sleep to get rid of many hours of bacteria buildup. Dental hygiene has been solved a long time ago. Brush twice a day with a sonic brush, floss at least once a day right before one of the brushings, go to the dentist for scaling/sanding once a year or so. Literally all you need to have zero cavities or dental issues. That dentists still get so much business is mind boggling to me.

>>16708102
>you know we went 100s of thousands of years getting by without fluoride toothpaste.
And we also didn't eat nearly the amount of simple carbohydrates as we do now, it's only been that way for around 10k years since the agricultural revolution. Go an entire day without grains or processed sweets, chances are your teeth will feel pretty clean the next morning. Fossilized skulls and teeth from prehistoric humans have very low cavity rate. Toothpaste is an artifical solution to an aritfical problem.

>>16708005
protip don't consume acid shit right before brushing your teeth due to acid weakening the outer layer of the teeth

>>16708102
>>16708175
I've been brushing my teeth after every single meal, no matter what, and after every single time i drink anything other than water. I also floss every single day. I've been doing this for over 10 years now.
The results have been astounding. Before, i used to get 2-3 cavities a year, i had tooth pulled out due to infection, i have root canals and implants.
After, I've had 1 or 2 issues that are related to old filling deteriorating. Zero new cavities. Zero.

>>16708283
The downside is that now i can't have a romantic partner who doesn't brush before kissing me. Now i find food particles disgusting and lazy. I also find people who don't wash their butts after pooping utterly repulsive primitive animals.

>>16708102
>dont eat chocolate cake 5times a day
for a few months, i'd eat mostly ice cream for 3 meals a day.

>>16707996 (OP)
this might be gross but i have both awful dental hygiene and food eating habits yet ive never even had a single cavity. why? have i just gotten lucky and my mouth is just waiting to explode with cavities and infections? am i just accumulating damage i haven't been paying attention to?

>>16708297
Genetics. Some people are prone to rotting teeth and huge calculus build up because of genetic dispotions and some people liteally do nothing and their teeth are fine

No matter how much care you take, if your genetics are shit your teeth will rot

>>16708210
>ethanol
>no ill effects
lactic acid doesn't cause cancer and brain damage

>>16707996 (OP)
drink nothing except for spring/well water with a high pH

>>16708175
>Your enamel is softened at that time
I did not know that! I went through a 5 year drug bender and my teeth were fucked during it. After getting clean and going to the dentist they'd advised that to me. Makes a bit of sense now that I type it out though,

>>16708283
It's overkill but i can understand why you would do this after having many caivities, it's natural to bounce from one extreme into another. Overkill is better than underkill.

Personally i've been brushing twice per day since i was born because my parents cared about dental hygene, with yearly trips to do scaling/sanding/fluorization. I added flossing about 10 years ago myself, and decided to drop fluorization since switching to a sonic brush, i no longer see the need.

I have never had a cavity, still have all my wisdom teeth.

>>16708283
I went about 6 years in which I only brushed my teeth before going out in times when I thought I might talk to girls. This amounted to maybe a few times a week max. During that time I didn't get any cavities. I believe that the oral microbiome is a major determinant to whether you get cavities, and they vary between individuals. Like the same way people's intestines contain different species of bacteria that confer different qualities. I eat a lot of fermented food so maybe that's why, but I don't know, it could just be luck too

>>16708499
It doesn't seem like overkill for me at all, but i understand that for most people i seem like an oral extremist haha.
Also it's great to have at least one parent who cares. My friend's parents never took him to the dentist, his first time was at age 23. Idk how he doesn't resent them for it. But relatively, he didn't have that much issues.
I'm also unlucky to have very very weak quality teeth. So i had to make the desicion to either be extreme abiut hygene, or lose all my teeth before 50.

>>16708528
>Also it's great to have at least one parent who cares.
My parents care because their parents didn't and they both suffered the consequences. I am very thankful that they did.

It's simple, retard.

>>16708297
You've never been to a dentist and don't know how rotten your teeth are.
One day the decay will breach through into the pulp chamber, and the resulting infection will make you cry like a little girl directly to the receptionist of your nearest dental office, begging her to register you for their best dentist by the end of today (nearest free slot is in 2 weeks).

>>16707996 (OP)
teeth have some capacity to regenerate minor damage to the enamel, all you need to keep them healthy is to keep the acidid damage below some threshold.
This means no soda as it starts causing damage immediately. Also remove all bits of food from your mouth, use interdental picks, not just brushes. Sugar wont harm your teeth immediately, it takes time for it to take effect but you still have to clean up.
Soda starts eating the enamel right as it makes contact.
The damage is caused by bits of food stuck 24/7 between teeth, and by soda.

xylitol gum, straws (i use glass ones)

>>16708718
Bad idea, dont powerwash your teeth.
The damage is caused by rotten bits of food stuck between teeth. Power tools wont remove that, you need interdental picks, they are little brushes, not these old wooden sticks. Floss is deficient, it slides in and out of the dental gaps but doesnt remove much, you need to brush these spaces.
Power brushes just damage gums and front teeth because retards think they are getting triple action because POWER

>>16708721
>You've never been to a dentist and don't know how rotten your teeth are.
i go to one regularly. nice fantasy though.

>>16707996 (OP)
Swish your mouth with water 5 times after eating or drinking anything. It helps significantly prevents cavities.

>>16708910
>Water damages his gums.
Kill yourself.

>>16709342
Water is used in manufacturing to cut metal parts.

>>16709883
Using tools that are x1000 more expensive than water flossers.

>>16708210
I wonder if something like this would cause them to fail every breathanalyzer test

>>16707996 (OP)
Cleanliness reflects good choices and differentiates us from animals. Also fire separates us from animals. And when we cook animals we get fat and ash. Which gives us soap.

>>16707996 (OP)
Drink neutralized vinegar (don't get it on your teeth) to improve your gut microbiome which will improve your teeth