Macrobiotic teeth problems, tooth decay
What to use to clean your teeth in macrobiotic diet, what are preferred methods of teeth cleaning, how not to harm your teeth while eating macrobiotic diet, how to prevent tooth decay?
When you start eating macrobiotic diet, you can count with much less tooth problems, especially tooth decay. The bacterium that cause the tooth decay is called Streptococcus mutans. This bacterium does feed from the simple sugars, monosacharids and disacharids. The worst are sugar and fruit juices. It demineralize the tooth, takes calcium and it causes decay. If you eliminate these simple sugars, the bacterium can’t live in your mouth environment. From another view, you can say that tooth decay does exist in the acidic environment. And acid forming foods are mainly all simple sugars. If you stop eating them, you will have more alkaline atmosphere in your mouth and in your whole body and hence the tooth decay has no chance in your mouth.
When you’ll be eating macrobioticaly for longer time, you can also experience that your old tooth decays are repairing themself. The tooth will regenerate and be healthy again. But it takes long years to happen and you shouldn’t be eating excessive amounts of macrobiotic yin sweets (malts, fruits, oils).
For the teeth cleaning use simply quality sea salt and mechanical cleaning with teeth brush. You can also buy Denti power in a Healthy food store and use it instead of the sea salt. It has similar alkalizing effect.
Use small amount of sea salt after every macrobiotic sweet to prevent the tooth decay.
Tags: Macrobiotic, sugar