Plaque, Stephan's Curve (Imperative) mixed with breakfasts that you can brush immediately after.
It's actually best if you brush immediately up on waking up. This gets the overnight plaque.
It starts forming 4-6 hours after you sleep - your saliva is 20 millititers/hr
- during the day. At night? Just 3-6 ml.
Saliva washes away the bacteria, it contains bicarbonate, phosphate, and protein buffers that neutralize the acids being pooped out by the bacteria.
It also has the below ingredients. Who knew saliva was so cool?!
Or plaque?
By brushing first thing, fluoridating, and then waiting a 1/2 hour before eating, you just prepped your teeth for their Acid Trip through the day.
Like if you like salsa on your breakfast burrito like I do.
But what is a good breakfast if you have NO TIME to wait for the 60
minutes needed after eating acidic foods - and YOU DO NEED TO WAIT. You are removing microns - plural, of enamel every time you brush with your teeth acidic.
And THAT happens within 10-30 seconds of eating.
And it takes 60 minutes AFTER you remove the acid source.
But time, right? Who has the time?
Here are some meals to eat, brush, and go.
1/2 mashed up avocado + button on toast and the following....
Other immediately "brushable"
breakfasts.
Lunch?
And there you go...breakfast is set. Lunch is set.
Maybe weekends are when you have your salsa based breakfast fajita - when you have more time.
Just don't forget - Stephan's curve means that if you eat fermentable carbohydrates, your bacteria will start
producing lactic acid themselves.
Your saliva will help neutralize all of that as shown below.
But, that's not how I lived. That's probably not how you live.
mmmm, mmm, good - look at all of those Pumpkin spiced lattes below.
Below, we can see from most fermentable to least fermentable.
Which means more food for your acid-pooping bacteria to eat out your teeth, and cause you to go into the dentist and catch Covid from his Covid-huffing self.
Oof...this article:
telegraph.co.uk/news/picturega…
Stephan's Curve - genius. I have never. NEVER had a dentist teach me about this.
jamiethedentist.com/dental-caries-…
Oodles of sources on acidic foods and 60 minute wait, but just one:
he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/mden…
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