Staying hydrated helps us in many ways including getting rid of waste, promoting skin elasticity, and keeping muscles healthy and moving. But water isn’t just great for your body, it’s also great for your oral health.

Water strengthens teeth

Flouride, an essential part of tap water, is “nature’s cavity fighter” and provides many benefits to your teeth. Flouride mixes with tooth enamel in developing teeth and helps prevent tooth decay. It also works with saliva to prevent plaque. Dentists also agree that thanks to fluoride in the water, half of the kids in the U.S. between five and seventeen have never had a cavity in their permanent teeth.

Water keeps your mouth clean

When you drink sugary drinks like soda, juice, sports beverages, and sweet tea, unwanted sugars are left behind. Those sugars start to wear down your tooth enamel because bacteria that naturally exists in your mouth ingests sugar to form an acid thath attacks enamel. Since water contains no sugar, it washes away the food you eat and any debris left behind leaving nothing for bacteria to eat. It also dilutes the acid in your mouth that wants to destroy your enamel. The fluoride in the water also provides your teeth with a coating to defend against acids and reverse tooth decay.

Water keeps dry mouth at bay

It’s a little-known fact that tooth decay thrives on dry mouths. The reason why? Saliva actually defends against tooth decay, specifically the minerals in saliva such as calcium and phosphate. Saliva also helps wash away food residues that may be hanging around on your teeth. Drinking water helps prevent dry mouth by creating more saliva to keep tooth decay away and washes away food particles.

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