explore how sugary drinks affect teeth?(In this experiment students should use egg shells to determine how soft drinks stain the teeth and wear down the enamel).
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Answer:
• Sugary drinks affects our teeth by causing cavities and tooth decay.
Explanation:
• There are thousands of bacteria that lives inside our mouth, some of them are beneficial because it uses up the residual food particles. But many of them are harmful bacteria.
• When we consume any sugary drinks or any kind of sugar for that matter, some of the sugars in the food gets stuck in our teeth. These stuck sugar particles becomes the point where bacteria would attack to eat the sugar and to release acids after the digestion of these sugary particles.
• These acids released by the bacteria dissolves the outer protective layer of our teeth, that is the enamel. Without this protective covering our teeth are exposed to repeated attacks of these acid releasing bacteria, and this causes the tooth decay.
• The sugary drinks and beverages are particularly harmful for the teeth because it not only has high levels of dissolved sugar but also weak acids like carbonic acids dissolved in them.
• The eggshells used in the experiment acts the teeth exposed without the protective covering of enamel.
• When it is treated with the sugary drinks and beverages it not only stains the eggshells but also caused its decay.