I bite/chew ice cubes every day. Does this strengthen or weaken my teeth?
About 5 a day, if I was to estimate. Will it strengthen my teeth, like lifting weights make you stronger, or weaker, like if you were beating up a wall and it got weaker and weaker?
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It will not make your teeth stronger. Prolonged chewing of hard substances will not only weaken your teeth at the roots (causing them to become loose, eventually), it can crack your teeth. That's what happened to me. One of my molars was cracked in 3 places because I chewed ice for years on that side. I wound up having to get a root-canal and a crown to replace the tooth. And let me tell you, there is no pain greater than a tooth with cracks in it and you happen to drink something cold or suck in air on it or you bite down on an unsuspecting hard little bit (like a wheat berry). It feels like electric shocks going through your jaws, neck and head. Just hideous!
I recommend sucking on ice only.
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it's bad on your teeth... u might also have pica...check w/ a dr.
does not do anything to your teeth except give you the possibility of chipping one....why do you want muscular teeth anyways.....
it will weakend your teeth and make them sensitive because you are stressing your teeth with hard stuff and cold too!
you can chew ice cubes but if you over do it then in time you will have problems with it!
I don't think so.
when your teeth are cold, they're more brittle.
I know that for sure.
all your doing is increasing the chance of breaking/damaging them
i doubt it will help your teeth get stronger if it did lot more people will be doing it
Suck on my icecube...
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it weakens ur teeth. ur enamel gets chipped away and ur teeth became more susceptible to tooth aches
Brushing teeth, flossing,using mouthwash, and chewing gum?
most probably weaken. u r nt training ur muscle, u r jux puttin stress on ur teeth.
Weakens your teeth... chips off the enamel
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