Areca is a kind of food that many men like to chew. In fact, betel nut should not be eaten more. Often chewing betel nut is easy to induce oral cancer. How long does a betel nut chew before we spit it out? Besides oral cancer, what harm can betel nut cause?
What's the harm of chewing areca often
How long can a betel nut be chewed and vomited
The time of chewing areca is generally 5-6 minutes. If the chewing time is too long, the areca will spread and it is easy to eat areca residue. But the damage of areca to oral mucosa is certain. Chewing areca can make teeth black, worn, shaken, gingival atrophy, submucous fibrosis, leukoplakia and cancer. Excessive consumption will lead to poisoning symptoms, such as mild excitement, dull eyes, shaking all over the body, unsteady walking, weird or rough behavior, and severe acute psychosis, including auditory hallucination, self expansion, forced delusion, delirium, etc. Betel nut is not good for human body. It's better to eat less.
The harm of eating areca often
Because the calcareous and areca juice filled the mouth to form dental calculus, and because of long-term hard chewing and biting tooth quality, and even make teeth split or broken.
Effect on temporomandibular joint
Because of the loss of tooth quality and the abrasion of temporomandibular joint surface, the occlusal changes and the pain and pathological changes of temporomandibular joint, there will be sound and joint pain when the mouth is closed, which is not only painful, but also very difficult to treat.
Darken teeth
Betel nut juice is purple red, chewing betel nut for a long time will make people's teeth black. After chewing areca nut, spit the residue on the ground, with red spots, like blood stains, affecting public health.
Containing carcinogenic alkaloids
Qiu Zhanxian, chief of the first section of Taipei Health Bureau, said that between 88% and 92% of the oral cancer patients in Taipei were caused by chewing betel nut.
Easy to cause abortion of pregnant women
Pregnant women chew betel nut too much, which may cause abortion.
Effect on periodontal tissue
Because areca fiber is quite thick and hard, it will stab the gum or block the gap of the teeth, resulting in the compression of the papilla between the teeth and inflammation, and also because of chewing hard, causing damage to the periodontal membrane, causing inflammation, swelling and pain around the root. On the other hand, due to the accumulation of calcareous and areca residues, the stones become thicker and thicker, which causes gum damage, redness, suppuration, root exposure and other periodontal lesions, and eventually one tooth falls off or has to be removed.
Effect on oral mucosa
Oral submucous fibrosis and leukoplakia are caused by chewing areca nut, which is the precancerous lesion of oral cancer. Its clinical symptoms are difficulty in opening mouth, pain, numbness, whitening of oral mucosa and ulcer.