{"id":3361,"date":"2025-09-15T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/sparkling-water-is-terrible-for-teeth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:02:27","slug":"sparkling-water-is-terrible-for-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/sparkling-water-is-terrible-for-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkling water is terrible for teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-15 16:02:25<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Drinking sparkling water can be disastrous for a person&#8217;s teeth.<BR><br \/>\nThe fizzy beverage has increased in popularity of late but dental experts fear that its acidic nature contributes to the erosion of pearly whites.<BR><br \/>\nThe dentists say that acidic fizzy water (compared to the neutral pH of tap water) &#8220;etches&#8221; the teeth and removes material from the gnashers.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Ben Atkins, a spokesperson for the Oral Health Foundation, said: &#8220;That means it takes material off it.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Then next time you rub it against food or something else, very, very small bits of enamel break off. Over your lifetime that can be a lot of enamel.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s the carbonic acid, the bubbles, that cause the problem. Carbonic acid is a very mild acid, but it&#8217;s still acid and can be bad for your teeth.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr. Atkins has urged those who drink sparkling water a lot to cut down on their consumption.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;If you are having it once a week, I won&#8217;t lose sleep over it.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But if you&#8217;re having three bottles of fizzy water a day, yes, well let&#8217;s take a step back and look at that. Pop it into the treat section &#8211; so it&#8217;s not every day.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-15 16:02:25 Drinking sparkling water can be disastrous for a person&#8217;s teeth. The fizzy beverage has increased in popularity of late but dental experts fear that its acidic nature contributes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}