If you’ve ever left your dental care until the last minute, you know how quickly the payments can add up. Luckily, at City Dental Centre we offer dental financing Surrey for all your dental work. But how can you prevent needing so much dental work done in the first place?
First and foremost, it’s important to know which foods not to eat before bed. Everyone has stayed up late or gotten up in the middle of the night to grab a snack, however, making a habit out of this will surely affect the health of your teeth and overall health. There are a variety of components that factor into this. Let’s take a look.
Snacking at night can be caused by a wide variety of factors such as:
- Stress
- Boredom
- Insomnia
Midnight Snacks
Late night snacking, however, is one of the top contributors to weight gain, high cholesterol levels, high insulin levels and other health conditions. And as we all know by now, dental health problems.
The severity of your cavities all depends on what exactly you like to eat before bed and just how good your dental hygiene is. At a minimum, you should brush your teeth twice a day – once in the morning as soon as you wake up and once at night right before you go to sleep. Brushing before bed is especially important because at night, there is less saliva in your mouth which makes it the perfect breeding ground for bacteria to begin eating away at the teeth’s surface.
Decreasing Late Night Cravings
What makes you crave late-night snacks? This is the first step to lessening your craving for them. Let’s take a look at some ways you can cut down.
- Eat Balanced: When you’re eating balanced meals, you won’t have as many cravings for sugar, as well as cravings very late at night. Balanced meals mean you are getting enough nutrition.
- Drink Lots of Water: Cravings can sometimes be a way for your body to tell you it’s dehydrated, and it’s actually quite easy to mistaken those two sensations.
- Avoid Acidic Foods: Acidic foods will eat away at your tooth enamel.
- Reduce Sugar: The less sugar you consume, the less sugar you’ll crave.
- Floss & Brush Twice per Day: This is one of the best ways to reduce tooth decay and improve overall dental hygiene!
- Regular Dental Visits: You should be going in for checkups and cleanings every six months!
If you’re in need of a dentist you can trust, and one who offers dental financing Surrey, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us!
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