Does sugar-free gum have any dental or hygiene benefits?

No. As a matter of fact, if you have ANY amalgam fillings, chewing gum accelerates the release of mercury vapor from the fillings. The amalgam fillings (silver fillings) do not bond to the teeth. The way they are installed by making the drilled cavity in the tooth larger at the bottom and smaller at the top hold the filling in like a wedge. The interstitial space between your tooth and the filling is where the bacteria thrives. The liquid mercury contained in the filling (over 50%) leaches out and is supposed to kill the bacteria. It does this for about 5 years. After that, an infection happens and in many cases biofilms are generated that are the precursor to cancer and even infections to the brain. This mercury has been linked to not only cancer issues, but Alzheimer's.





To view a graphic demonstration how mercury causes brain damage leading to Alzheimer's, go to the following web site:





http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/





This is the web site for the University of Calgary School of Medicine where they conducted an extensive research project on mercury and how it affects brain tissue. The amount of mercury used in this experiment is 100 to 1,000 times less than what you get out of brushing your teeth or chewing gum each time you do it.





No wonder Alzheimer's disease is so rampant in our society today. Flu shots contain huge amounts of mercury, in fact, all vaccines contain huge amounts of mercury as a preservative in all vaccines, except in a few children's vaccines recently changed due to pressure from educated groups insisting it be removed. Thimerosol is the culprit in the vaccines.





Your dentist has been instructed by the ADA ( American Dental Association ) to not inform you about the dangers of Amalgam fillings. In fact, if he tells you they are bad and that information is relayed to the ADA, that dentist will lose his license. He is required by law to give you a paper prepared by the ADA to tell you it's O.K. to use the silver, mercury laced filling material. If you don't believe this statement, just simply ask your dentist if this is true. You will be amazed at the answer. This is happening in America!





The artificial sweeteners they use in the sugar-free gums have been shown to contain 92 different side effects in the human body that express themselves as diseases that most people do not relate to the garbage.





Bottom line is do not chew gum at all. It is not healthy for you regardless of what all the marketing hype says.





good luck to you

Does sugar-free gum have any dental or hygiene benefits?
it will help a bit i would say however the sugar is replaced wit sweetners which can be worse than sugar
Reply:Chewing gum after meals will increase the amount of saliva in your mouth. This will make the food particles left dissolve quicker, lessening the chance for cavities. Regular gum would still introduce sugar into the process and would there for only increase the amount of food needed to be dissolved.
Reply:Well there is a school of thought that believes that the action of chewing produces enzymes which prevent plaque and bacteria forming on the teeth and gums. Another school of though says that the action of chewing produces stomach acid in preparation for food which isn't consummated leaving an excess of acid in the stomach. I am not too sure if this is now an urban myth or not.
Reply:yes, it does help. Depending on what type of sugar replacement, xylitol is better than sorbitol. Recaldent which is a new type of chewing gum that has been developed with CPP-ACP ( derived from milk protein) can help to remineralise teeth. I think you can only get Recaldent from the dentists.
Reply:Yes definitely. If you are using sugar-free gum to freshen your breath, it is much better than gum with sugar. Sugar in the gum that you chew can feed the bacteria already in your mouth and can actually worsen your breath. It also depends on the gum that you use. I've been using Therabreath chewing gum by Dr. Harold Katz. It is sugar free and oxygen powered, so it eliminates dry mouth. It helps neutralize the Volatile Sulfur Compounds (the real cause of bad breath) in your mouth.





My suggestion is avoid sugared gum as much as you can, it really does nothing but temporarily mask bad breath and make it come back with a vengeance.