No matter how well you take care of your teeth, your bad habits can still harm them. What are the bad habits that harm your teeth?

Using a bottle

Feeding your baby fruit juice, milk or formula food with a bottle at bedtime can cause dental decays. So, if you are giving your baby fluids before going to bed at night, try to ensure that the baby does not sleep while the bottle is in the mouth.

Teeth grinding

Teeth grinding caused by stress and sleep habits can damage your teeth over time and cause pain. You can get relief from pain by avoiding hard foods during the day and using protective appliances at night.

Chewing gummy candy

All sugary foods, especially sugary gums that are chewed longer, encourage tooth decay.

Using your teeth to open a bottle cap

Do not try to open bottle caps or plastic packaging with your teeth. This wrong habit can cause cracks in your teeth.

Consuming a lot of sports drinks and fruit juice

Since sports drinks have energizing features, their sugar content is generally high. These drinks create an acid attack on tooth enamel. If you consume such drinks frequently, your teeth will decay faster. Although juice contains many vitamins and antioxidants, unfortunately most of them contain sugar. So instead of ready-made fruit juice, consume freshly squeezed fruit juice. You can also reduce the sugar content by adding water.

Snacking often

Eating too often leaves food residues on your teeth, causing bacterial plaque formation and this accelerates decay.

Chewing a pencil

If you chew the heads of pencils due to work stress or when you are busy, you could seriously damage your teeth.

Drinking coffee and smoking

If you consume too much coffee, your teeth may change color and turn to yellow over time. Talk to your dentist if you are concerned about the discoloration of your teeth. Other tobacco products, such as cigarettes, also cause stains on your teeth and gum diseases. Tobacco use is also one of the most important causes of oral cancer.

Eating Disorders

If your dessert consumption is very high, you may face tooth decay problems. In addition, if you have and eating disorder such as bulimia, vomiting constantly erodes your teeth due to the strong acids in the vomit and causes bad breath.

Cracking sunflower seeds

When eating sunflower seeds, the shells can get stuck between your teeth and damage the teeth and gums.