Help Prevent Cavities, Gum Disease and Get Better Breath
How drinking water helps your teeth and helps fight COVID-19. Saliva helps prevent cavities. Saliva helps wash away food particles that get stuck in your teeth. Bacteria feed on the food particles that get stuck in your teeth and produce an acid that creates cavities.
More food particles give the bacteria more to feed on increasing the problem, so having enough saliva to wash away food particles is very important for your teeth. Saliva is 98% water, so drinking water is important to help your body produce enough saliva.
Drinking water helps healthy gums. The acid that the bacteria create that hurts your teeth can also hurt your gums. Over time they can cause gum disease, which can contribute to tooth loss. Drinking water helps teeth enamel. Saliva has calcium and other minerals in it that can help strengthen the enamel in your teeth.
Saliva can also help keep your teeth white by washing away food and drink before it can stain your teeth. Saliva helps prevent bad breath. Saliva is needed to wash away the bacteria and food particles which cause bad breath as they decompose in your mouth.
Drinking water can also help your kisses taste sweeter. Saliva helps your teeth. Your teeth are important in the digestion process as they break down the food you eat before you swallow it. The stomach can't break down large chunks of unchewed food and they can rot in the stomach causing stomach problems. Swallowing large pieces of unchewed food can also cause choking.
In addition to drinking water to help your teeth we do recommend brushing your teeth, flossing them and rinsing after your brush as well. So for the health of your teeth, your gums, your digestive system and your breath drinking water is an easy solution.
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