>>16707996
>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.

Back | Go to board

Board:

/sci/

Thread:

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…