{"id":216,"date":"2010-09-23T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T11:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:11:29","slug":"the-benefits-of-chewing-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/dentistry\/the-benefits-of-chewing-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BENEFITS OF CHEWING GUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I&#8217;ve heard that chewing gum after eating can help prevent fillings.\u00a0 Is this true, and if so how?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As long as it is sugar-free, yes, chewing gum can help to maintain a healthy mouth.\u00a0 This is because it helps to boost saliva flow, helps to wash away food remnants, bacteria and plague, neutralising harmful acids and so helping to reduce decay.\u00a0 According to gum manufacturers, Wrigleys, 80% of dentists now recommend chewing sugar-free gum after meals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard that chewing gum after eating can help prevent fillings.\u00a0 Is this true, and if so how? As long as it is sugar-free, yes, chewing gum can help to maintain a healthy mouth.\u00a0 This is because it helps to boost saliva flow, helps to wash away food remnants, bacteria and plague, neutralising harmful acids &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/dentistry\/the-benefits-of-chewing-gum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE BENEFITS OF CHEWING GUM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-faqs","category-dentistry","category-did-you-know","category-questions-answers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluecourtdental.com\/cosmetic-dentist-harrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}