Impact of Sports Drink on Oral Health | Chapter 8 | Challenges in Disease and Health Research Vol.3

 Sports drinks have risen rapidly in a few years due to lifestyle changes. Energy drinks improve physical endurance, promote metabolism, prevent exsiccation during exercise attempts and exchange electrolytes. These energy drinks, despite their vogue, have a low pH and are acidic in nature, and can cause dentin and enamel surface degradation, contribute to permanent loss of tooth bulk and increase dentin sensitivity. Besides this, all sorts of sports drinks often cause massive degradation of the structure of the tooth and the restorative materials used. These energy drinks keep back artificial colours that are likely to cause composite materials and glass ionomer cements to discolour. The acidic nature of energy drinks can lead to deprivation, wear and roughening of the restorative surface. About materials. Many unfavourable outcomes of sports and energy drinks can be linked to consumption by people under the age of 18. To have a control diet, and intake of less quantity of soft and energy drinks, they should be directed, keep away from negative end results of oral health. Over-consumption of sweetener-containing soft drinks with the lowest pH is a probable source of preventable oral health problems.

Author (s) Details

Marlin Jena
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Dharmashree Satyarup
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Ramesh Nagarajappa
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Upasana Dhar
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

Dr. Radha Prasanna Dalai
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.


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