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The way you live your life has an impact on so many aspects of your life.  What I am seeing just for myself is that the habits I create and follow through with from eating to morning routines actually have impacts on how my body reacts and thrives in my everyday life.  That is something I never would have thought about 10 years ago, but now I am starting to see that small things in life have a big impact later on.  So I was really pondering about things that impacted my dental health and I wanted to go over my own habits and see what was going on and maybe what could even be better.

Now every morning is pretty much the same in my life now.  Most definitely I am not a morning person and because of that I have had to add things to my daily routine to survive and thrive through education and work requirements. This routine starts with a nice warm cup of caffeinated coffee. This is now the staple to my morning rather it is a Monday or a calm Sunday. Coffee is not a must and it has also had effects that are not only affiliated with my dental hygiene, but also other areas of my health.  My average morning begins with two cups of coffee and sometimes I even have a third when I get to work now. So every morning I am drinking acidic and staining drinks. I don't add sugar and drink the coffee black so it could actually be much worse for my dental health, but it is still doing things to my body.

I am reading more about dental care and the fact that I am drinking coffee after brushing my teeth in the morning is actually a reason why my teeth are staining more.  The toothpaste is not entirely protecting my teeth instead it is giving my teeth a clear path for the coffee to break right through and do its thing.  I have done some reading into the idea that a straw could actually keep more of the coffee off of my teeth and help keep it from deteriorating the enamel. 

 

The other area that it affects is that the coffee brings my mouth to be more dehydrated on a daily basis.  A dry mouth can cause less saliva to be created and sent into the mouth which actually cleans your teeth from bacteria and acid.  But the more coffee I drink the less I am able to use my own saliva as a cleaner.  So the extra coffee is possibly hurting my dental health. So I am going to start to work on drinking less and becoming a better morning person without all the caffeine.