Valentine's Day Popular Gift Chewy Cookies, What about dental health?
Feb 11, 2025
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In general, cookies are crisp with a dry texture and have a rough texture every time they are chewed depending on ingredients such as chocolate chips or nuts, while chewy cookies feel soft and chewy, moist and soft inside, attracting attention from the MZ generation for their different charms.
However, due to the chewy texture unique to chewy cookies, it can negatively affect dental health, so some care should be taken when eating.
As chewy cookies are based on marshmallows, sugar is the main ingredient. When sugar enters the mouth, it becomes food for bacteria and naturally produces acid, which can corrode tooth enamel and cause tooth decay, and frequent sugar intake can cause degreasing by continuously exposing teeth to acid, and causing discomfort when eating cold or hot food.
In addition, as bacteria eat sugar and reproduce, they can cause gum inflammation, causing gum swelling, bleeding, or bad breath.
The chewy texture, which is a characteristic of chewy cookies, is easy for food to stick to the surface of teeth or to fit between teeth, and is often difficult to remove even with brushing or flossing. If oral care is not done properly, plaque can build up and cause tooth decay or gum disease, and the sticky texture puts physical pressure on the teeth, which can break or crack the teeth if the tooth is weak.
Jang Ji-hyun, head of the dental department at Daedong Hospital, said, `As teeth are an important physical resource used throughout life, oral hygiene should be thoroughly managed after eating sweet and sticky desserts like chewy cookies"Especially if your teeth are weak or have a lot of prosthetics, you are easily exposed to tooth sensitivity or oral disease, so it is recommended to choose a dessert that is less sugar and not sticky."
It is recommended not to eat sugar-rich or sticky food as much as possible, but if you do, you should immediately brush your teeth and use dental floss to keep it clean between your teeth so that there is no residual food. Unless you are in a situation where you can brush your teeth right away, it is recommended to remove sugar from your teeth by rinsing your mouth with water.
In addition, it is necessary to visit the dentist every six months for oral disease prevention and early detection.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
