Beauty Article

Every person
regardless of his occupation
social position or gender
can be a connoisseur in a particular sphere of knowledge but is usually ignorant in medicine. We are used to follow our therapist's prescriptions without any hesitation. We've never taken effort to investigate the way this or that medicine works ...But
actually
even if we did
I doubt we'd make head or tale of what is written in thick volumes of medical books. It looks like sometimes it's worth doing...

The recent research in the field of salivary dysfunction field has shown that over 600 medications wide-spread nowadays lead to tooth decay through saliva inhibiting in our mouth. Meanwhile
saliva executes an important function of protecting our mouth from acid that destroys teeth. This acid is produced by bacteria while you eat sugar and it destroys the upper layer of our teeth. Salvia in its turn is rich in calcium and phosphate and flowing in it replaces the layer that has been removed.

Atropine
propanolol
clonidine and drugs similar to them take first place among the medications harmful for our teeth. These medicines either inhibit saliva production or alter its composition that is just as bad. Studies held on rats to see the relationship between cavity incidence
salvia flow and specific drugs
have shown that such drugs as atropine and its similarities
including antihistamines (eg
Benedryl) and some anti-depressants (eg
Elavil
Aventyl) retard the process of salvia secretion. Propanolol
in its turn
alters salviaТs composition causing tooth decay this way. The third drug under investigaton
clonidine
has been proved to prevent saliva producing by rducing neurotransmitters - stimulators of salivary glandsТ work.

This all is sad especially because these drugs are widely used by elderly people
together with those who have heart or hypertention problems. Clonidine
by the way
is used additionally to treat children with attention deficit problem.

Professor Watson calls doctors to reconsiderate using the above mentioned drugs or at least think about the dose reducing. This we
at least
can do if we are not able to fight such disorders as Sjogren's syndrome
an autoimmune illness and damaged salivary glands
side effect of radiation therapy to the head or neck.

You can read more articles at dental care and hygiene.