Whitening Your Teeth Naturally With Lemon peel or orange peel? Myth Behind It

Lemon peel contains a list of vitamin, mineral and fibre like calcium, potassium and Vitamin C, which gives your body a nutritional boost.

• Lemon juice in its natural state has a pH of 2 which is acidic.
•  Outside the body, lemon juice is very acidic.  
• Lemon juice cause enamel erosion. 
• As your enamel erodes it becomes thinner and this allows the yellower dentine that lies below the enamel to be more visible through the enamel.
•  Your teeth may appear indented and yellower and they may also feel coarse to the tongue.

Orange peel contains soluble sugars and pectin as the main components. ... Oxalic acid (mainly in the peel) Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) Tartaric acid.

• Peels also have anti-cancerous properties, due to the presence of limonene, a naturally occurring chemical.
• The acidity of orange juice is due primarily to the organic acid, citric acid and, to a much lesser extent, malic and succinic acids. Orange juice with about 0.5–1.0% acid (pH of about 3.5) is less acidic than that of grapefruit, and much less acidic than lemon and lime.

So long term use of both peels of lemon and orange can cause tooth erosion.

The changes in pH value of mouth can accelerate tooth decay also.

For more on pH of Oral cavity, click here

by,

Dr.Renju T George,

Dr.Renju's Dental Clinic,

Palarivattom. Phone-04842336162