Is chewing gum good for teeth?

Although chewing gum tastes good, you should not eat too much of it. Eating too much will cause pain in your cheeks. Some people may even develop enlarged masseter muscles due to chewing gum. However, chewing gum can remove bad smells in your mouth and solve the embarrassment when you suddenly need to meet someone. Chewing a piece of gum does help keep the air in your mouth fresh, but chewing gum will put a certain amount of pressure on your teeth, so it may not be a good thing for your dental health.

Chewing gum has become a kind of snack for us to relieve stress in life. When chewing gum, people can feel very excited, and the cerebral cortex has no worries or concerns. In fact, every time you chew gum, it is also a deformed venting, and it can also relieve the worries in the human body. So do you know! Many people encounter such a problem, that is, chewing gum hurts the teeth, what is the reason for this!

Anxiety, depression, and stress; grinding and clenching teeth at night; chewing food with only one side of the teeth; chewing gum and biting hard food; yawning with wide mouth or biting beer bottle caps. Did you know that doing too much of these everyday actions can lead to the same disease?

Recently, a special patient named Xiao Lin came to the dental clinic of the hospital. She was a white-collar girl who had just started working. She had a sad face from the moment she entered the clinic. She rubbed her cheeks with her hands from time to time, causing people around her to speculate what "strange disease" she had.

When Xiaolin sat on the dental chair, the first words that came out of her mouth were: "Doctor, I feel so uncomfortable!" She shouted loudly. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that Xiaolin had started to experience "teeth clicking" when opening her mouth four or five years ago, and it was sometimes very painful. Later, the noise became louder and louder. In recent months, even when I spoke, there was a "crack, crack" sound, loud enough for people around me to hear it. The pain also became more frequent and severe, especially in the morning when I woke up, my cheeks and front of my ears would feel sore and swollen. Not only did my teeth make a loud and painful noise when I ate, but I gradually became unable to open my mouth.

The doctor prescribed several prescriptions for Xiaolin's condition, including not opening the mouth wide and paying attention to protecting the temporomandibular joint when yawning; chewing evenly on both sides; avoiding eating hard objects and foods that may increase the load on the joints (such as chewing gum, melon seeds, etc.); maintaining an optimistic, relaxed, and open-minded mental state, paying attention to the combination of work and rest, etc. At the same time, doctors also remind friends who are planning to eat as much as they want during the Spring Festival to remember to protect their teeth and avoid chewing hard objects with one side of the teeth.

In the above article, the editor introduced the phenomenon of toothache caused by chewing gum. In fact, this is because we chew gum excessively or eat too much on a daily basis, which is the main factor causing toothache. Do not chew gum frequently or chew hard.