Published recently in the journal Clinical Oral Investigations, a new study has discovered that sugar-sweetened acidic drinks, like softdrinks, is the common factor when it comes to obesity and tooth wear among adults.
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Being overweight or obese is indubitably associated with having tooth wear, scientists from King’s College found out.
Significantly, they also found that the increased consumption of sugary soft drinks may be a leading cause of the erosion of tooth enamel and dentine in obese patients.
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“It is the acidic nature of some drinks such as carbonated drinks and acidic fruit juices that leads to tooth wear,” said lead author Dr Saoirse O’Toole from King’s College London.
Tooth wear is ranked as the third most important dental condition, after cavities and gum disease and the consumption of acidic food and drink is a leading cause of this. Obese patients also have other risk factors such as increased likelihood of gastric reflux disease (heartburn) which was controlled for in this study.
“This is an important message for obese patients who are consuming calories through acidic sugar sweetened drinks. These drinks may be doing damage to their body and their teeth. There is also an important message for dentists. We should be asking our patients who are obese and have tooth wear what calories they are drinking as this may be having an effect on their full bodies – not just their teeth,” Dr O’Toole added.
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Source: neatorama