Adequate saliva is critical for good oral health. Apart from lubricating the tissues, saliva helps maintain a pH environment that promotes tooth remineralisation and serves an antimicrobial function.

1. Saliva and Chewing Gum
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2. Importance of Saliva
! Critical for good oral health.
! Lubricates the tissues and helps maintain a pH environment that promotes
tooth remineralisation and serves an antimicrobial function.
! Assists in digesting, diluting, and clearing dietary carbohydrates as well as
buffering of acid that is a by product of the metabolism of sugar.
! Integral to the formation of the pellicle, which protects the tooth after
eruption.
! Preserve the integrity of both oral hard and soft tissues.
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3. What if Salivary flow is reduced…
? Affects the oral tissues.
? Leaves dry, burning mouth, which will impact on the ability to
swallow, taste food, speak, and maintain oral tissue integrity.
? Longer-term consequences are demineralization of enamel, an
increased caries rate with rapid progression of the carious lesions, and
an overgrowth of Candida.
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4. Saliva and Chewing Gum
o Causes the salivary glands to produce more fluid.
o This stimulated saliva contains more ions, including neutralizing bicarbonate,
calcium, and phosphorous, which are available to remineralize dental enamel.
o When a sweetness or flavor is added to chewing gum, there is a 10-fold increase in
flow rate compared to stimulation by mastication alone. Even after 20 minutes of
chewing, saliva output is elevated 3-fold.
o A mechanical cleansing effect on the teeth adds to the anticaries effect of sugarless
gum.
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5. Saliva and Chewing Gum
 Food is cleared from the oral cavity, and plaque is removed from the occlusal tooth
surfaces. Although smooth surface plaque will not be affected, a reduction of as
much as 44% of the accumulated plaque has been reported.
 Sugarless gum - A vehicle to deliver medicaments that may benefit oral and
systemic health.
 Assists caries reduction by remineralization or neutralization of plaque acid.
 Assists in tooth-whitening and breath-freshening.
PPT Source: Saliva and Chewing Gum
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6. About Smile Care
Smile Care® has spearheaded the cause of modern dentistry
in India through its multitude of activities in the field of
dentistry.
Smile Care® is involved in Clinical Services, Continuing
Education, Clinical Research, Public Awareness and Scientific
Publication in the field of dentistry and offers the synergistic
benefit of these activities to all its clients.
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7. Contact Details
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Bandra, Kolhapur
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Bandra : 91 -22-26400188 / 83 & 91-22-26431670 / 71
Kolhapur : 91 231 2540648 / 49
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