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  • is when acid eats away at them until they chip or get shorter.

  • About maybe one in six.

  • People had habits, like sipping things really slowly or swishing them around their mouth.

  • It is preventable mostly by cutting back on acidic food and drinks, but from a dental point of view, taken a road to take brand guns, if that's okay, back in the dentist chair, even though she thought she looked after her teeth.

  • Well, Rachel Co o Brien has cirrhosis.

  • Tooth wear is when acid eats away at them until they chip or get shorter.

  • It turns out Rachel had a bad habit she didn't even know about when I kind of drink normally, especially if it's a kind of flavored drink.

  • I've just holding mouth bit longer than I suppose.

  • The average person just I think it might be the taste or something like that on, but I think again, that kind of more exposure to my teeth and it's it their mouth longer than just swallowing it down.

  • It's great.

  • Depression is good As vices go.

  • It doesn't sound so terrible.

  • But researchers say it's bad news for your teeth.

  • We found that, though, about maybe one in six people had habits like sipping things really slowly or swishing them around their mouth.

  • People tend to rinse things around their mouth.

  • If you're doing these behaviors on a daily basis for years and years and years, you can call a serious damage to your teeth on that serious damage can mean that your whole mouth needs to be rebuilt.

  • It is preventable mostly by cutting back on acidic food and drinks.

  • Some things, though, like fruit, are generally seen as the healthy option.

  • But from a dental point of view, they can erode teeth.

  • So should people scrapped their five a day to protect their teeth?

  • The researchers say that's the last thing they want.

  • But the advice is to be aware of overall eating patterns and to consider snacks that are less acidic, on higher in calcium.

is when acid eats away at them until they chip or get shorter.

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