{"id":5864,"date":"2025-06-11T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:12:15","slug":"bad-habits-harm-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/bad-habits-harm-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Which bad habits harm your teeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"> \n#cmsms_row_6a145d0c66c0a9_63484125 .cmsms_row_outer_parent { \n\tpadding-top: 0px; \n} \n\n#cmsms_row_6a145d0c66c0a9_63484125 .cmsms_row_outer_parent { \n\tpadding-bottom: 50px; \n} \n\n<\/style><div id=\"cmsms_row_6a145d0c6687e6_08889386\" class=\"cmsms_row cmsms_color_scheme_default\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_margin\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bad habits that can harm your teeth:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1)<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Nail biting:<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">This nervous habit can chip teeth,cause misalignment of teeth and impact your jaw.Placing the lower jaw, for a long period of time, in a protruding position can cause jaw disfunction.<\/span><br \/>\n2) <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Brushing too hard:<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Brushing with a hard toothbrush or brushing too hard can damage teeth, irritate gums and can cause tooth sensitivity.<\/span><br \/>\n3) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Grinding and clenching:<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">This can cause muscle tenderness, joint pain and chipping or cracking of teeth.<\/span><br \/>\n4) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Chewing on ice cubes:<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">The cold temperature and the hardness of ice cubes can cause serious damage to your teeth and existing fillings.<\/span><br \/>\n5) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Using your teeth as a tool:<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Many people use their teeth as tools for a variety of tasks, such as to open a bottle or plastic bag, straighten a fork, rip off a price tag, etc.These actions can cause your teeth to crack or chip. Also you may injure your jaw or accidentally swallow something you shouldn&#8217;t.<\/span><br \/>\n6) <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Eating habits:<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Constant snacking, drinking of carbonated beverages or biting into lemons or other acidic food, puts you at a higher risk for cavities.<\/span><br \/>\n7)<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> Smoking:<\/span> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">Tobacco smoking causes bad breath, accelerates the severity of gum disease and affects the colour of your teeth.In addition, smoking can cause oral cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cmsms_row_6a145d0c66c0a9_63484125\" class=\"cmsms_row cmsms_color_scheme_default\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer_parent\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_outer\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_inner\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_row_margin\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_column one_first\">\n<div class=\"cmsms_img  cmsms_image_n\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dentistry-6.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\u03c4\u03b9 \u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03bb\u03b1\u03bc\u03b2\u03b1\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 \u03b7 \u03c0\u03c1\u03c9\u03c4\u03b7 \u03bf\u03b4\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b7 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03c8\u03b7\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"4","_seopress_titles_title":"Common bad habits that can harm and damage your teeth","_seopress_titles_desc":"Learn about the  most common bad habits that can harm your teeth and how to avoid them.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.athens-dental.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}