White Wine May Be Bad For Your Teeth

By Minnesotastan in Food & Drink on Oct 21, 2009 at 9:59 pm

Bacchus by Caravaggio A group of researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University, reporting in the journal Nutrition Research, have suggested that frequent drinking of white wine may damage the teeth.

In the lab, adult teeth soaked in white wine for a day had a loss of both calcium and another mineral called phosphorus to depths of up to 60 micrometers in the enamel surface, which the researchers say is significant.

The effect is pH-mediated, and is most noticeable with Riesling wines, and was exacerbated by brushing the teeth soon after drinking wine. Red wines were noted to be much less damaging to teeth, and the researchers suggest that the deleterious effect of white wine might be mitigated by the ingestion of calcium-rich cheese.

BBC link. Photo: Bacchus (Caravaggio)

Tags: teeth, Wine

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HugsNotDrugs
Oct 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I guess the proper response is to just not give a f*** and enjoy white wine whenever you please.
Another Jake
Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:27 pm
blah blah blah. Eat more cheese. blah blah blah. Red wine is better. blah blah blah
Christophe
Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
I thought it would be more Coke/Pepsi related
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp
sc0tty
Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:53 pm
That geisha has some buff dukes, huh?
zeytoun
Oct 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
I’ll be sure not to swirl white wine in my mouth 24/7….
Foreigner1
Oct 22nd, 2009 at 4:02 am
…So what do we show with a topic on White wine…?

A painting depicting a gay guy holding a glass of Red wine. ….?

“The effect is pH-mediated, and is most noticeable with Riesling wines, and was exacerbated by brushing the teeth soon after drinking wine.”

Same goes for eating all kinds of healthy fruit-
Most dentists over here where I live give the advise not to brush your teeth shortly after eating an apple or other sour fruit because that damages the teeth too much.

Perhaps by now we may conclude that there is absolutely nothing we humans can do or consume that has no risks- Even breathing clean air gives the risk of oxidation and poisoning, if done too much….
Gauldar
Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
I probably drink more coke then I do white wine.
rrw
Oct 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 am
the whole process involves another, mysterious element we have dubbed ‘phosphorus’, which you have never heard of! I mean, we call it phosphorus but you can call it whatever you want in the end. It might not even be phosphorus at all. We just called it like that, and just because it’s ‘called’ phosphorus doesn’t mean shit. We called it that.
I remember that the phosphorus levels in the ground around my elementary school created two days’ vacation (via chocolate milk seeping out from the dumpsters in 1988)
Charlotte
Oct 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
It is well known that wine (white or red) are not good for your teeth.

People who work around wine especially wine tasters usually have extensive enamel erosion. Since they not only drink the wine but because they hold the wine in their mouth for a prolonged period of time. This is general knowledge in the dental profession, not quite sure why seems to be a new discovery.
ted
Oct 24th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Foreigner1. Bacchus is not gay. He’s stylish.
drjohn
Oct 24th, 2009 at 8:28 am
It’s not often that one would store one’s teeth in white wine for 24 hours. Rinsing with water after wine cunsumption would also mitigate the damage.

Citrus drinks are even worse than wine.

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