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> "I've seen people with their teeth eaten away from drinking super sized gulpies" Oh really? So you made sure that their tooth decay had nothing to do with t
by nate_meurer 9y ago
> "I've seen people with their teeth eaten away from drinking super sized gulpies"
Oh really? So you made sure that their tooth decay had nothing to do with the bacteria in their mouth? How did you do that? Did you take regular cultures of their mouth bacteria? Did you monitor and analyze the progression of the tooth decay to determine the proportion that was caused directly by food acid, rather than by bacterial acid? What were your methods exactly?
If you did all of these things, perhaps you should submit your findings to a journal, where they can be compared to similar research, performed inumerable times over the last half century, which shows that bacteriogencic acids are the overwhelmingly predominant cause of tooth caries.
Yes, I'm aware that you can erode your enamel away by brute force with soda pop. Here's one documented case: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2676420/. You'll note that the paper specifically calls out the concomittant role of bacteriogenic decay, and endorses the utility of fluoride treatment in its prevention.
> "If you really want the truth, keep looking on government websites"
You mean like the list below? Really, this is getting silly. I'm happy that you have your dental health well in hand, but you're strangely insistent on maintaining ignorance as to why what you're doing might be working.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232036/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232036/
https://report.nih.gov/NIHfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid=129 https://report.nih.gov/NIHfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid...
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay/more-info https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/tooth-decay/more-info
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072698/
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Espanol/SaludOral/Saludoralenlos/ToothDecayProcess.htm https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/Espanol/SaludOral/Saludoralenlos/T...
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/ToothDecay/ https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/ToothDecay/
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/GumDiseases/PeriodontalGumDisease.htm https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/OralHealth/Topics/GumDiseases/Peri...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032936/
https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/gum-disease/more-info https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/gum-disease/more-info
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287824/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287824/
- RobertRoberts 9y ago>Oh really? So you made sure that their tooth decay had nothing to do with the bacteria in their mouth? I suspect this is getting pointless, but one more comment from the American Dental Association. "Soft drinks, particularly carbonated sodas and sports drinks, appear to be the most significant extrinsic cause of erosion [of tooth enamel]." https://www.ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/dental-erosion https://www.ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/dent...