periodontal disease with soft foods
Mr. Okazaki often gives quizzes when giving lectures.With a wide variety of content, from simple to slightly twisted, the listeners will not get bored.
The upper left photo also appears in one of those classic quizzes.
"Both are pictures of the inside of a monkey's mouth. One is a wild monkey, the other is a zoo monkey's mouth. Which one is the zoo monkey?"
Think about it for a moment.By the way, monkeys do not brush their teeth, whether in the zoo or in the wild.
As you can see by comparison, the monkey's mouth in the photo on the right has sharp teeth, a lot of dirt (plaque) on the boundary between the teeth and the gums, and the gums are crumbly.Actually, this is the mouth of the monkey in the zoo. “I have periodontal disease,” says Okazaki.
Periodontal disease was once called alveolar pyorrhea.Bacteria in dental plaque causes inflammation of the gums, which causes the gums to become inflamed and dissolves the bone that supports the teeth, ultimately leading to tooth loss.
On the other hand, the wild monkey on the left has less dirt in the mouth and no plaque on the boundary between the teeth and gums.
It is the food that creates this difference in the mouth.
Monkeys in zoos eat soft food that is easy to eat.
Monkeys in the wild eat a lot of leaves, and then they eat nuts and bark in their natural state.Some of them are hard, so I chew them well.
This means that wild monkeys have tight gums and plenty of saliva to wash away dirt.
*Please refer to the article in the December 2016 issue of Musubi Magazine for photos.
Cutting apples and cake...
It seems that dogs and other pets can also get periodontal disease and gums can become soggy if they only eat canned food or soft dog food.
Mr. Okazaki gave an easy-to-understand explanation of how eating soft foods increases the risk of periodontal disease.
"If you cut an apple with a knife, the knife will not get dirty. But if you cut a cake, the knife will be sticky. This knife is our tooth."
Mr. Okazaki, who saw two pictures of monkeys, thought, "The mouth is the first place where food enters, so if the food changes, the mouth will be the first to change."
It is said that one of the reasons why periodontal disease is becoming more prominent in children is that soft foods have increased.
[Immune power up information]To food education that thinks from the mouth ⑤
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