Energy drinks are very popular among teenagers, nightclub goers, creatives, and people with shift work or irregular hours. Their use allows you to feel alert and active, improves performance, relieves fatigue. But there are many downsides to using energy drinks. One of them is the negative effect of liquid on tooth enamel.
Scientists from Southern Illinois have found that after a few days of drinking energy drinks, corrosion changes begin to appear, thinning the enamel coating of the teeth. To do this, the experimenters placed tooth samples in a container with an energy drink for twenty minutes for five days, simulating the use of a drink, and then transferred to a vessel containing a solution similar in composition to fresh human saliva for two hours. The experiment was repeated every 12 hours. Studies of the teeth at the end of the experiment showed damage to the tooth enamel due to the aggressive effects of acids, which are in large quantities in the composition of energy drinks.
Thinned enamel cannot fully protect the teeth from negative factors, which contributes to the development of dental diseases and their rapid destruction. Adolescents are especially susceptible to this process due to the characteristics of the growing organism.
Changes in tooth enamel are irreversible, and the destructive process can only be stopped by refusing to use energy drinks in favor of ordinary water. If the use of stimulants is a necessity, then in order to reduce the harmful effect on the enamel of the teeth after their use, it is necessary to thoroughly rinse the mouth with clean water or use sugar-free chewing gum.