TIPS FOR HEALTHY TEETH
A proper diet is essential to help keep your teeth strong and healthy, as well as regular brushing and flossing. Your diet should provide adequate amounts of six nutrients: calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamins C and D, and fluoride. Fluoride strengthens tooth enamel by making it more resistant to acid attack. The amount of fluoride in your diet depends both on the level of the mineral in the water supply where you live and in the soil where the vegetables you eat grow. Fluoride is also found in seafood.
After you eat something sweet, your teeth are attacked by acids for up to an hour. You can fight tooth decay by limiting sugary foods to mealtimes, snacking on fresh fruit or raw vegetables, and by cleaning your teeth immediately after every meal. Dentists also say you should take your time and brush thoroughly, ideally spending two or three minutes each time.
參考中譯：
正確的飲食、定時刷牙、及經常使用牙線是確保牙齒健康的重要方法。正確的飲食中應包括下列營養素：鈣、磷、鎂、維生素C、D及氟等物質。
氟可以強化牙齒的琺瑯質，使牙齒避免受到酸的侵蝕。飲食中氟的攝取與水質及蔬菜生長的土質有關。另外，海鮮中也含有豐富的氟。
吃過甜食之後，一個小時之內口腔中都還會殘存有酸的成分，會導致蛀牙，所以要少吃甜食，選擇蔬果做為零食，用餐之後，立即刷牙，以避免蛀牙。牙醫生同時建議，刷牙要慢慢刷，不要趕時間，要徹底刷乾淨，每次刷牙最理想的時間長度應該是二到三分鐘。
牙齒健康的秘訣
正確的飲食、定時刷牙、及經常使用牙線是確保牙齒健康的重要方法。正確的飲食中應包括下列營養素：鈣、磷、鎂、維生素C、D及氟等物質。
