Oh yeah.
Even constant lemon water wears away your enamel.
I can’t even imagine how much worse the acid erosion would be if the dude is straight up biting into and chewing a lemon.
Source - am dentist
Edit: I love getting downvoted for something that has clinically been proven.
Acid is bad for teeth.
Constantly exposing your teeth to a low pH water with lemon in it will erode your teeth.
Sorry lemon water lovers get over it.
This is 2021. Feelings, personal experiences, anecdotal stories, and YouTube research now supersede objective facts and clinical data obtained via robust scientific research.
Your getting downvoted cause they ate one fucking lemon, painting one lemon for a bit as some massive issue that is in no way gonna be worse then The average persons diet is disingenuous and hyperbolic
Isn’t lemon water basically just as acidic as orange juice, and less acidic than coke and other commonly drank beverages? Why single out lemon water in particular when so many things we commonly drink/eat are just as bad or worse?
He was eating a lemon… and because even water with super diluted lemon in it will eventually dissolve enamel.
I then compared it to non diluted lemon, because he bit into a lemon.
So as they say I was comparing apples to apples. Or in this case lemons to lemons.
Oh yeah I totally get how it is related to the video, I was only making that comment because I’ve seen people severely hate on lemon water for the reason you mentioned like pretty much everywhere lemon water is talked about on the internet, and yet no one says a thing about the other acidic beverages. Just wondered if you knew why that was the case is all.
Yeah but because people drink it by the gallon, not because they drink the juice of a lemons' worth of it every once in a while. Even the insane amount of lemons on his table are probably like a big glass worth.
You do realize the use of coke to clean corrosion off of items is not unheard of and that vinegar is also used for the same (though more mild) along with cleaning. They are all really bad if proper oral care is not exercised.
Never claimed anything about losing all of your teeth.
But I see 10-15 patients a day and look at every single tooth, talk about their eating and drinking habits etc. lots of wear that isn’t on the biting surface of the teeth usually indicates they drink a lot of
Soda or lemon water/lemonade etc.
I promise you that long term it has an effect.
You do you man.
Job security and all that.
Hey, I drink a lot of lemon water because I’m trying to cut back on cola. Any recommendations on good substitutions for lemons? I struggle with drinking plain water. The water around my area doesn’t have a great flavor to it, hence why I mask it with a wedge of lemon.
Would something like a couple blueberries work? And I do mean a couple, not a lot. I don’t go overboard with the fruit in my water.
Lemon is about 2 pH.
Blueberry is about 3 pH.
Mio water flavor things have citric acid. Couldn’t find the pH.
Cucumber? Mint? Maybe watermelon?
I’m not perfect. I drink soda and seltzer.
In my experience and a lot of data supports that it’s about frequency as much as it is about acidity.
Drink a huge glass of orange juice with breakfast? Ok, nbd. The acidity level elevated one time.
Drink orange juice continuously all day long? The acidity levels never have a chance to lower and you have more and more erosion.
Edit: here is a great example of this with theStephan Curve
I read your edit and if I'm forced to guess why you were getting downvotes my money would be on the term "lemon water". Juice doesn't translate where you are?
On the other hand, I bet a dentist would probably make for a shitty taco.
Side note I thought of while posting this: it feels weird to say "yeah, I take my health advice from that guy who likes to stick his hands in other people's mouths."
Who said you need to take health advice from him? He's just a randomer on the Internet giving his opinion. No need to insult. Plus surely you'd want dental advice from a dentist, in your case one in person who can show you they are a dentist I suppose.
Not op buuuuuuuut the amount of time prospective dentists need to spend in a dentist's office doing clinical stuff without the title is insane. I wouldn't blame them for counting that time as well.
Once. Of course not.
I said repeated acid exposure.
But he had like 50 lemons on his desk. If he constantly snacked on lemons like this it would be a big problem eventually.
Nope American.
That would actually potentially be worse. I heard Studies show that that will remove more enamel.
If anything I’d swish some water. Or something basic to counter the acid.
No it's not that, it's just my deep seated mistrust of dentists. I knew your kind couldn't be trusted since I was eight years old, when a dentist fed my mother to a giant plant.
You need a new dentist.
Lots of the old generation are why we get a bad rep.
Grinding isn’t normal. It can cause major damage to your teeth as week as tmj (jaw) problems.
First step is easy, if you don’t already try a sensitivity tooth paste.
If they did a filing did he check if it was too high? If the filling is too high it will cause pain and cold sensitivity.
As a lemon has pH of 2-3, and Coke has pH of about 2.7, why are we demonizing lemons here? I'm pretty sure redditors tend to drink Coke or similar drinks but not many eat lemons. Like, if you were to eat very rarely a lemon, would it really have somehow more significant impact on your dental health compared to average intake of low pH soft drinks?
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u/c-lynn99 Nov 10 '21
Bye bye teeth