A short conversational segment from a YouTube video by Dr. Sanda Moldovan (uploaded Nov 16, 2023) about tooth wear. Speakers contrast normal age-related mechanical enamel wear with accelerated chemical erosion: acids gradually demineralize enamel, exposing darker dentin; Coca Cola is cited as a highly acidic example capable of dissolving a tooth in vitro if left long enough.
As we get older, we wear down our teeth. But to recognize what's a normal wear versus something that's more accelerated, it takes a little wisdom there as we wear down the enamel. So with chemical, what happened is it's like acid. You slowly demineralize the surface of the tooth. And so you go from a tooth that's super white to slightly getting a little bit less white as we lose more enamel and we see more of the dentin underneath of it.
Yeah. So this makes me think of Coca Cola, which is pretty acidic. I know there were studies done. Basically, you take a tooth removed from someone's mouth, put it in Coca Cola, and essentially the whole tooth can be dissolved if you wait long enough.
