4 Ways That Poor Nutrition Can Cause Bleeding Gums

The foods we eat not only impact your body, but they impact the overall health of your smile. Eating healthy foods that rinse food off of your teeth, keep your mouth moist and provide your body with the nutrients it needs, can help to ward off major problems with your smile. Poor nutrition can deprive the body of important nutrients and makes it difficult for the body to fight infection and bleeding gums.

While processed foods, high carbohydrates with starchy and sugary foods are bad for the oral health and can cause bleeding gums. Try to eat fruits and vegetables with nutritional supplements of calcium, vitamin D, vitamin C, magnesium, and anti-inflammatories such as fish oil. These are all critical building blocks of good oral health.

Next time you are looking for a snack to tide you over for dinner reach for the red and yellow bell peppers or an apple and leave the chips alone. 

For more information on healthy eating, contact Dr. Lee and her team today.

Healthy Eating for Older Children

The food that an older child consumes is critical, not only in developing life long habits, but also for the overall health of their teeth. Providing healthy snacks for your child can ensure they get the nutrients they need without the junk they don’t. Here are five tips from Dr. Anna Lee on how you can help.

·      Recent research shows that cheese is one of the healthiest snacks for children’s teeth.  Cheddar, Swiss and mozzarella cheeses stimulate the salivary gland to produce saliva and lessens the effects of acids attacking the teeth and causing tooth decay.

·      Avoid frequent snacking on sweets and sweet beverages between meals.

·      Serve snacks and meals that satisfy a child’s need for different types of foods-crunchy, soft, chewy, smooth, sweet, sour, bland and others

·      Offer snacks at regular times, such as mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Don’t let children snack throughout the day.

·      When shopping, allow the children help pick out fruits, vegetables and cheeses.  They will be more interested in eating them.

For more information on which foods are great for your child’s teeth contact Dr. Lee and her team today.

NUTRITION & TEETH

      

                     What is good nutrition?

Your smile can be impacted by the foods that you consume. Implementing a healthy

diet can help keep your smile in good working order. Consuming more fruits and

vegetables can help rinse food off of your teeth in order to help support gum health.

Healthy eating is a well-balanced diet so the body can receive the proper nutrients

necessary for good health and wellness.  Dr. Anna Lee suggests, “the mouth is the

body’s initial point of contact with nutrients.”  Having healthy teeth and gums are

essential tools for eating, chewing or swallowing, and it is the first steps in the

digestion process to provide good nutrition to the body.  Eating patterns and eating

healthy food impact the general health, the teeth and the gums.  Studies have shown

that people who have poor nutrition are likely to have poor oral health.

If you are struggling with your oral care contact Dr. Anna Lee & her team today.