( A study involving active ingredients in...)Antacids also control oral bacteria,Health

A study involving active ingredients in popular antacids has concluded that common antacids could help keep gingivitis at bay. //

According to researchers,these chemicals, commonly used to treat heartburn also display fighting power against the oral bacteria linked with the gum disease,Gingivitis. If subsequent studies confirm this finding,antacids will become a part of toothpastes and mouthwashes. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and G?teborg University in Sweden.,opine ; this could help in improving ways of controlling plaque and gingivitis.

"The American diet and the constant drip of sugar allows little time for the natural repair of teeth. All day, it's a cycle of acidic erosion and repair – or at least, it should be – but our constant sucking on hard candy and guzzling sodas with high fructose syrups leaves little time for repair," said Robert Marquis, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Marquis, an internationally recognized expert on the bacteria that inhabit our mouths, is the study's lead author.

The team studied a compound known as lansoprazole, part of a family of compounds known as benzimidazoles that already have a range of uses, primarily controlling stomach hyperacidity and killing Helicobacter pylori (the bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers). Now, the compounds are brandishing potent antimicrobial actions that interfere with the dirty work of other types of bacteria that cause plaque buildup and gingivitis.

Such bacteria make their home on unbrushed teeth, which become coated with plaque, a filmy substance that, under a microscope, appears as a teeming sea of hundreds of bacteria. Among these are gingivitis-causing bacteria that break down sugars and amino acids into toxins that are harmful to our gums.

Unchecked, an accumulation of plaque and an overgrowth of these ravenous, toxin-oozing bacteria leads to one of the body's natural immune responses, infla
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