Throat pieces often contain

 Source: Health News

Associate Professor, Department of Stomatology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University

      Xiaohong University after graduation came to the museum when the instructor. Her work unit welfare is good, regularly made with some occupational health care products, such as watermelon frost throat pieces. In order to protect the throat, she often sneak with a piece. Who knows, a year down, although the voice to keep well, the teeth are more and more pain. Not long ago she went to the hospital to see a doctor. Do not see do not know, a look surprised, little red teeth, there are six appear dental caries. At this time the little red to know, often with sweet and sour throat pieces caused her long insect teeth.

      Caries is a disease in which tooth hard tissue is gradually destroyed. Onset began in the crown, if not timely treatment, the disease continues to develop, the formation of cavities, and finally the crown completely destroyed. Untreated cavities are not self-healing, and the ultimate outcome of their development is tooth loss. Caries is a bacterial disease, so it can be secondary to pulpitis and periapical periodontitis, and even can cause alveolar bone and jaw inflammation. Secondary infection of dental caries can lead to arthritis, pericoritis, chronic nephritis and other systemic diseases.

      The incidence of dental caries is related to the four major factors of bacteria, food, host and time, that is, the occurrence of caries requires sensitive hosts, oral cariogenic flora and suitable substrates, and these substrates must have sufficient time.

      The presence of bacteria is a major condition for the occurrence of caries. Dental plaque is an important environment for bacteria to produce caries on the tooth surface. Oral health is also a condition of caries. Good oral hygiene controls plaque formation and inhibits caries.

      Edible rough food has a certain self-cleaning anti-caries effect. Rough food is not easy to produce thick plaque, it will not accumulate more acid, which is not easy to form the condition of caries disease. The refined foods in the sugar content of more rough food, sugar into the plaque, plaque within the caries bacteria to sugar fermentation, the formation of various acids. These acids in the tooth surface stay a long time, the hard tissue of the teeth dissolved and the occurrence of caries. It is more harmful to eat sugar between meals and before going to sleep.

      The sensitivity of the host to dental caries involves a wide range of factors such as saliva flow rate, flow, composition, shape and structure of the teeth, body condition and so on. Teeth arranged irregular, crowded, it is easy to suffer from caries. Saliva has the effect of cleaning teeth, saliva of certain ingredients on dental caries and periodontal disease can play a role in inhibiting. Genetic, nutrition, minerals, endocrine and other factors on the host's anti-caries have a certain impact.

      The occurrence and development of caries is a fairly long process. From the initial caries to the clinical formation of cavities generally need 1.5 to 2 years, so even if the cariogenic bacteria, the appropriate environment and susceptible host coexistence, dental caries will not occur immediately. Often with throat tablets once more than 1 year, due to artificially changed the oral environment, the four conditions once there is a certain time, it may form a larger area of dental caries.