- Teeth should be sparkling white (^)
Reality: Kids have white teeth because they are new. As we grow our teeths will become yellow with age and that is perfectly alright You don't need sparkling white teeth to have healthy teeth. - Why are my canine teeth yellow compared to my other teeth? I brush my teeth everyday. I brush my whole mouth, the back of the back etc. My teeth are pretty white, but my canines mess up my whole smile. Why are they less white?
- Why eating dessert during meal is a good idea?
Eating dessert at end of meals was an old tradition in 1300's which has lost it's utility
If you eat sugar, it's a good idea to wash it away with some other food rather than letting it sit on your teeth.
Here's a story to illustrate this point:
After dinner, you order some Chocolate Mousse Cake. As you eat the cake, the crust gets packed down into the grooves on the chewing surfaces of your back teeth and some might even get stuck in between your teeth. Depending on how much saliva you have — and you might not have very much — it could take over half an hour to wash away this sugary treat from your mouth! That means that your teeth could be exposed to harmful substances and their byproducts for over an hour.
Now, suppose you had the cake first, and then ate a salad. The chewing action of the lettuce leaves would easily be able to wash away the cake, and your mouth would be free from the high concentration of sugar much more quickly. This is one reason that dental experts recommend eating sugar with meals. (Source: Oral Answers).
Why dessert used to be eaten at end of dinner in earlier times?
It started during the 1300's. During a time when food was prepared straight from being slaughtered to being cooked, then stored until dinner time. That the main course was not the greatest tasting item, even being a bit bitter and rancid in taste. That a sweet dessert was provided to basically help hold down the main course and to cleanse the pallet of those bad tastes. You must remember that herbs and spices that are a common additives these days along with refrigeration, it wasn't so available back in the past. It is a tradition that has stuck around for near a thousand years or longer, and one practice that I am glad that it survived. I may be a bit foggy about the time frame, but I am sure of the reason. I hope this helped, good luck.
Your canines are thicker than the rest in your mouth. They have a larger amount of dentine, and dentine enamel is more yellow than the enamel on your other teeth.
In India, we have the tradition of having the dessert first. Good to know its a scientifically acclaimed idea!
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