Tea bag irreparable harm to the health of the teeth

Experts from the U.S. found that the love of teabags tea can lead to dental fluorosis - a disease in which teeth start to crumble.

Addicted to tea bags can deprive teeth

At tea contains fluoride - substances that in moderate doses can be good for teeth and strengthen bones. But if fluoride is much more than is needed by the body with healthy teeth can say goodbye, and in tea bags, as found by U.S. researchers, the concentration of fluoride dangerously high.

 

Overabundance of fluoride provokes dental fluorosis. When the disease is deteriorating teeth enamel bright spots appear first, then dark, depending on the level of fluoride. In some cases, the teeth begin to crumble. In addition, the deteriorating condition of the bones, they can become brittle. Violated the thyroid and parathyroid glands, the liver.

 

Scientists from the Medical College at Washington University in St. Louis have found that regular tea packaged fortress present 6.5 parts fluoride per million, which is considerably higher than the permissible concentration. Fluoride content in different varieties of tea ranged from 1 to 6.5 ppm. According to one of the authors of a study by Professor Michael White, the tea leaves can really accumulate fluoride, coming out of the soil and water. But researchers still need to figure out how to collect the related ability of tea fluoride and its variety, as well as the year of its acquisition.

 

It should be noted that the maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in drinking water is 4 ppm. Bottled mineral water should not contain more than 2.4 parts per million of fluoride.