Coffee and Your Teeth: What Acidic Drinks Really Do to Enamel

There is a good chance you are drinking coffee right now. There is also a good chance you have Googled some version of "is coffee bad for my teeth," found a list of drinks ranked by pH, learned that coffee is somewhere in the middle, and closed the tab feeling vaguely reassured.

That reassurance is misplaced, and not for the reason you think. Coffee is not especially acidic compared with a Coke. The problem is that you do not drink coffee the way you drink a Coke. You nurse it for ninety minutes at your desk, you have a second cup at eleven, and you have been doing it every workday for fifteen years. The pH number on those ranking charts tells you almost nothing about that.

This guide does three things no "worst drinks for your teeth" list does. It separates staining from erosion, because they are different problems with different solutions and almost everyone conflates them. It explains why pH rankings are genuinely misleading, using a comparison that should end the practice: in one published study, whisky at pH 3.80 was judged not potentially erosive while Heineken at pH 4.26 — less acidic by pH — was flagged as a concern. And it gives you a protocol for the twenty to sixty minutes after you drink, which is the only part of this you actually control.

That last window is where NanoChew does its work: a nano-hydroxyapatite chewing gum that puts enamel mineral back in your mouth exactly when your coffee has pulled it out.

What's in this guide

• Two different problems: staining vs erosion
• The 5.5 threshold, and what actually happens in your mouth
• Is coffee bad for your teeth? The actual numbers
• What pH rankings get wrong: titratable acidity
• How long you sip is the biggest thing you control
• The full pH table: 60+ drinks by name
• Alcohol: beer, wine, spirits and hard seltzer
• Acidic foods nobody warns you about
• The staining–erosion loop
• Cold brew, iced coffee and adding milk: what actually changes
• Five myths worth dropping
• The after-drink protocol
• Where remineralizing gum fits
• The research on nano-hydroxyapatite
• What's in NanoChew, and why
• A day on coffee, done properly
• When to see a dentist
• Frequently asked questions
• Sources

Two different problems: staining vs erosion

Almost every conversation about coffee and teeth collapses two separate things into one. Separating them is the most useful thing you can do, because they have different causes, different consequences and different fixes.

Stains are a cosmetic annoyance with a straightforward fix. Erosion is permanent loss of the hardest tissue in your body. And as we will get to, erosion makes staining worse — so if you care about the colour of your teeth, you should care about the acid for that reason alone.

The 5.5 threshold, and what actually happens in your mouth

Your enamel is about 96% mineral by weight, and that mineral is hydroxyapatite — a crystal lattice of calcium and phosphate. It is not alive. It has no blood supply, no nerves and no cells inside it, which is why it cannot heal the way a cut heals.

What it does instead is exchange ions with the fluid around it, continuously, in both directions:

• Below about pH 5.5 — the balance tips toward dissolution. Calcium and phosphate leave the crystal. This is demineralization.
• Above about pH 5.5 — saliva, which is supersaturated with calcium and phosphate, pushes mineral back in. This is remineralization.

One number worth knowing if you already have sensitivity or any gum recession: exposed dentine and root surfaces have a higher critical pH, around 6.7. That means a drink that is perfectly safe for intact enamel can still be dissolving an exposed root. In the coffee study we cite below, all four coffees tested sat below the dentine threshold, even the one that was above the enamel threshold. If cold water makes you wince, this is part of why. We go deeper on that in remineralizing gum for sensitive teeth.

Every acid episode follows the same arc. pH drops within a minute or two, sits in the demineralizing zone, then climbs back as saliva buffers it — a recovery that takes roughly 20 to 60 minutes. Healthy teeth are not teeth that never demineralize. They are teeth where the return trip keeps pace.

So the real question about any drink is not "is it acidic." It is how far down it pushes you, how long it keeps you there, and whether anything is helping you climb back out.

Is coffee bad for your teeth? The actual numbers

Coffee's pH varies more than most people expect, because bean origin, roast level and brew method all move it. Here is what published measurements actually report:

So: most coffee sits at or just below the threshold where enamel begins losing mineral. It is nowhere near as aggressive as a cola at pH 2.37. Compared with soda, coffee is a mild acid.

And yet coffee causes more cumulative trouble for more people than soda does, for three reasons that have nothing to do with pH:

• Frequency. Most people who drink coffee drink it every single day, often two or three times. Few people drink three sodas a day for twenty years.
• Duration. A soda gets finished. A coffee gets nursed. More on this below, because it is the single biggest variable.
• It replaces water. Coffee is frequently the thing people drink instead of water all morning, so the rinsing and buffering that water would provide never happens.

What pH rankings get wrong: titratable acidity

This is the part that almost every article on this topic skips, and it is the part that makes the rankings misleading.

pH tells you how acidic a drink is at the moment it hits your mouth. Titratable acidity tells you how much acid it has in reserve — how hard your saliva has to work to neutralize it, and therefore how long your mouth stays in the danger zone. Technically it is the amount of base needed to bring a solution back up to a target pH. Practically it is the difference between a quick dip and a long one.

The two do not track each other. Two published examples make this unmistakable.

Example one: whisky versus Heineken

Meira and colleagues measured pH and titratable acidity across alcoholic drinks and published the results in Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada in 2020. Two of their findings sit right next to each other and ought to end the pH-ranking genre:

• Teacher's whisky: pH 3.80, titratable acidity to pH 5.5 of just 0.04. The authors judged whisky not potentially erosive, because saliva buffers it almost instantly.
• Heineken: pH 4.26 — less acidic than the whisky — but titratable acidity of 0.60. The authors singled it out precisely because its acid reserve resembled other beers despite the higher starting pH, making it harder for saliva to buffer.

On a chart ranked by pH, whisky looks worse than beer. In the mouth, the opposite conclusion is better supported.

Example two: coffee with milk

Basheer and colleagues measured both properties across coffee drinks in a 2022 in vitro study. Black instant coffee came in at pH 5.13 with a titratable acidity of 11.5. Add milk and the pH rose to 6.20 — comfortably above the enamel threshold — but titratable acidity rose to 16.2, the highest of any coffee they tested. The authors reported that pH and titratable acidity did not correlate in their data, and framed erosive potential as depending on both: "Erosive potential depends on two factors: the low pH and the buffering capacity."

Two caveats, because this matters and we would rather you trust us on the rest: both studies are in vitro, with no teeth, no saliva and no mouth. The Basheer study used instant coffees at a single temperature, and the alcohol study tested Brazilian brands, so treat the specific products as illustrative and the principle as the takeaway. Neither paper claims titratable acidity matters more than pH — they show it matters too, and that you cannot infer one from the other.

The practical upshot: a drink's pH tells you how deep the dip is. Its acid reserve and how long you drink it tell you how long you stay down there. You cannot control either number — but you can control how long you sip, and you can help your mouth climb back out faster. That second part is what a remineralizing gum is for.

How long you sip is the biggest thing you control

Here is the arithmetic that should change your habits more than any pH chart.

Drink a coffee in ten minutes and you get one acid episode: pH dips, saliva goes to work, and you are back to neutral maybe forty minutes later. Call it one dip, roughly 40–50 minutes of recovery.

Nurse the same coffee over two hours and every sip resets the clock. Your mouth never gets the uninterrupted stretch above pH 5.5 that remineralization needs. You have not had one acid episode — you have had a continuous one lasting two hours, followed by the usual recovery.

Now extend that to a normal working day: coffee at 8, refill at 10:30, lunch, an afternoon iced coffee or a sparkling water, dinner. Four or five acid episodes, some of them stretched over an hour or more. It is entirely possible to spend the majority of your waking hours below the threshold where your enamel is losing mineral — while brushing twice a day for two minutes each and believing you have it covered.

Two minutes of brushing, twice. Against that. The gap is not small, and no toothpaste on earth is in your mouth at 10:45am.

The full pH table: 60+ drinks by name

These are measured values for named products, drawn from the beverage survey published in the Journal of the American Dental Association in 2016, which tested 379 drinks available to US consumers and found 93% below pH 4.0 and 7% below pH 3.0. Lower is more erosive. Remember that pH is only one of the two variables — but it is the one you can look up.

Sodas

Two surprises worth flagging. Diet soda is not meaningfully safer for your enamel — Diet Coke at 3.10 is in the same erosive band as regular Sprite, because the acid, not the sugar, does the erosion. And root beer is by far the least damaging soda, at pH 4.11–4.27, because it is not citric- or phosphoric-acid forward. If you are going to drink a soda, that is the one.

Energy and sports drinks

Sports drinks deserve a specific warning, because they are consumed in the worst possible pattern: sipped slowly, over a long period, often during exercise when you are dehydrated and producing less saliva. Low pH, long duration, impaired defence. "Zero sugar" changes nothing about the acid.

Juices, lemonades and fruit drinks

"100% juice, no added sugar" says nothing about acid. Cranberry juice at 2.56 is more acidic than Coca-Cola. And note the interesting case of Tropicana Orange Juice with Calcium at 4.09 versus regular Minute Maid OJ at 3.82 — adding calcium raised the pH, which is a small real-world demonstration of the principle this whole article is built on: adding mineral to the equation helps.

Teas, coffee and water

The bottled-tea trap. Brewing your own black tea lands you at pH 4.90–6.35 — often above the threshold entirely. Buying it in a bottle lands you at 2.85–2.93, because bottled teas are acidified with citric acid for shelf stability. Same drink, wildly different story. The "diet" bottled teas are no better.

And the sparkling water verdict: plain sparkling mineral waters measured 4.96–5.25 and were classified minimally erosive. Carbonation alone is not the catastrophe the internet suggests. Flavoured sparkling waters are a different product — the flavouring is usually citric acid, which drops them considerably. If you drink seltzer all day, buy the plain kind, and be aware that sipping anything acidic over hours is the real issue.

Alcohol: beer, wine, spirits and hard seltzer

Most articles on this topic skip alcohol entirely, which is strange, since drinks get sipped for longer than almost anything else people consume. Meira and colleagues measured both pH and titratable acidity, and the results reorder the usual assumptions.

The lesson generalises even though the brands are Brazilian: neat spirits have low pH but almost no acid reserve, so saliva clears them fast. Anything flavoured — hard seltzers, flavoured malt drinks, cocktails with citrus or soda mixers — combines low pH with a large acid reserve, which is the worst combination. Wine sits in between, with the added problem of being sipped over a whole evening and staining heavily.

If you are out for the night, the practical moves are: alternate with plain water, do not hold wine in your mouth, skip the citrus mixers where you can, and chew a piece of gum afterward rather than brushing when you get home.

Acidic foods nobody warns you about

Drinks get all the attention, but the same chemistry applies to food — and some of the worst offenders are things people eat because they are healthy.

• Citrus fruit and lemon in water. Lemon juice measures pH 2.25. A slice in your water bottle all morning is a slow citric-acid bath.
• Vinegar and dressings. Including apple cider vinegar taken as a "tonic," which is about the most direct way to apply acid to enamel.
• Pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut. Fermented and vinegar-preserved foods are acidic by design.
• Tomatoes and tomato sauce. Tomato juice measures 4.01, and sauces are often more concentrated.
• Dried fruit. Acidic, sugary and sticky — it clings to teeth and extends the exposure.
• Sour candy. The sourness is acid, usually citric or malic, held against the teeth deliberately.
• Kombucha and sour beers. Fermentation produces organic acids; both are typically well below pH 3.5.

Two things that work in your favour and are worth building into meals: cheese and dairy raise mouth pH and supply calcium and phosphate, which is why cheese at the end of a meal is genuinely protective rather than folk wisdom. And water, drunk alongside anything acidic, dilutes and rinses.

The staining–erosion loop

Here is the finding that ties the cosmetic problem to the structural one, and the reason you should care about acid even if you only care about how your teeth look.

Kandalkar and colleagues published an in vitro study in Cureus in 2025 measuring how much coffee stain enamel picked up depending on the state of its surface. The results:

All differences were statistically significant (p < 0.001). Coffee also roughened the surface more than the other stain tested, and the acid-etched coffee-stained samples ended up roughest of all.

Be clear about what this is and is not: a 37% phosphoric acid etch is a dental laboratory procedure, far harsher than drinking a coffee, and this was a small in vitro study with ten samples per subgroup. It is a model of a roughened enamel surface, not a simulation of your morning routine. But the direction of the finding is the point, and it makes mechanical sense — a rougher, more porous, mineral-depleted surface has more places for pigment to lodge.

Which gives you the loop:

1. Acidic coffee softens and roughens the enamel surface.
2. The roughened surface takes up more stain from the same coffee.
3. You notice the stains and buy a whitening product.
4. Bleaching roughens the surface further — the same study found bleached enamel took up over twice the stain of intact enamel — and often causes sensitivity.
5. Stains come back faster than before.

The way out of that loop is not more whitening. It is keeping the enamel surface smooth and well mineralized, which means shortening the acid exposure and resupplying mineral afterward. That is a structural fix with a cosmetic payoff.

Cold brew, iced coffee and adding milk: what actually changes

Cold brew: barely different, despite the marketing

Cold brew is sold hard on being "less acidic." Rao and Fuller at Thomas Jefferson University measured it properly and published in Scientific Reports in 2018. Same beans, both methods:

• Hot brew: pH 4.85 (Ethiopian) to 5.10 (Brazilian)
• Cold brew: pH 4.96 (Ethiopian) to 5.13 (Myanmar)

Cold brew is marginally higher — about 0.1 of a pH unit on the same bean. The authors described the pH of both as very similar. Cold brew did come out lower on titratable acidity, so there is a real difference in acid reserve, and it is less harsh on a sensitive stomach. But both sit below the 5.5 enamel threshold. Switching to cold brew does not get you out of this; it slightly reduces one of the two variables.

One thing to note in the other direction: iced coffee and cold brew are typically consumed slowly, over a much longer period, often through a long afternoon. If switching to cold brew turns a ten-minute hot coffee into a ninety-minute iced one, you have made the duration problem worse to fix a pH difference of 0.1.

Adding milk: helps on pH, and on mineral

Milk raises the pH of the cup substantially — from 5.13 to 6.20 in the Basheer measurements, which moves it from below the enamel threshold to above it. It also brings calcium and phosphate into your mouth, which is the raw material remineralization runs on. Both of those are genuinely good.

The honest caveat from the same study: the milk coffee had the highest titratable acidity of the four tested. So milk is a net positive on pH and on mineral supply, and not a free pass. Add the milk. Then still chew the gum.

A straw actually does help — for cold drinks

A straw routes liquid past your front teeth, which meaningfully reduces both staining and acid contact on the teeth people notice most. It works for iced coffee, cold brew, soda and juice. It does nothing for a hot coffee you sip from a cup, and it does not protect your back teeth.

Five myths worth dropping

1. "Brush right after coffee to stop stains." This is the single most damaging habit in this article. Acid temporarily softens the enamel surface; brushing then abrades it away. Standard guidance on dietary acids is to wait about an hour. Rinse with water, chew gum, brush later.
2. "Diet soda is fine, it's the sugar that's the problem." Sugar feeds bacteria that make acid. Diet soda just skips the middleman and delivers the acid directly. Diet Coke at pH 3.10 erodes enamel.
3. "Sparkling water is destroying my teeth." Plain sparkling mineral water measured 4.96–5.25 and is classified minimally erosive. Flavoured versions are a different matter, and sipping anything all day is the real problem.
4. "Whitening toothpaste will fix coffee stains." Whitening pastes work mostly by abrasion, on a surface that acid has already softened. You can end up removing mineral in pursuit of colour — and an eroded surface restains faster.
5. "Cold brew solved it." A 0.1 pH-unit improvement that still leaves you below the threshold, often consumed over a longer period. Nice for your stomach, not a solution for your enamel.

The after-drink protocol

This is the whole actionable core of the article. Four steps, in order, and the timing matters.

Notice that three of the four steps cost you nothing and take no time. The third one is the only one that does anything about the mineral you just lost.

Where remineralizing gum fits

If you have not come across the category, here is what it is and why it exists.

Ordinary sugar-free gum already does real work, and the American Dental Association credits chewing it for 20 minutes after meals with helping prevent tooth decay. The mechanism is saliva. Resting saliva flow in a healthy adult runs about 0.3–0.4 mL per minute; chewing pushes it to roughly 10 to 12 times that rate. More saliva means faster clearance of acid and pigment, and faster buffering back above pH 5.5.

But ordinary gum stops there. It accelerates your recovery using whatever calcium and phosphate your own saliva happens to carry. If you are dehydrated, on a medication that dries your mouth, or simply having a long day on coffee instead of water, that is exactly the resource you are short of.

A remineralizing gum adds the mineral itself. Specifically, nano-hydroxyapatite — the same mineral your enamel is built from, milled to a particle size small enough to interact closely with the tooth surface. So you get the saliva boost and a supply of the material the surface needs to rebuild, during the same 20 to 30 minutes.

And the format is the point. Compare the contact time:

Ten to twenty times the enamel contact time of brushing, placed exactly where the acid is. We compare the two gum types directly in remineralizing gum vs regular gum.

The research on nano-hydroxyapatite

This is not a novel ingredient looking for an application. Japan recognized hydroxyapatite as an anti-cavity agent in 1993, and the clinical literature has grown substantially in the last few years.

• Caries prevention. A 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis in the Journal of Dentistry by Pawinska and colleagues concluded that "more studies now show that hydroxyapatite is effective as an anti-caries active ingredient in the absence of fluoride." Early trials reported 35–56% caries reduction in children using 5% hydroxyapatite toothpaste versus placebo.
• Head to head with fluoride. A 2026 systematic review in Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dentistry found three separate trials in which hydroxyapatite was non-inferior to fluoride toothpaste — in children over a year, orthodontic adolescents over six months, and adults over 18 months — all rated low risk of bias under the Cochrane RoB 2 tool. We cover that comparison in full in hydroxyapatite vs fluoride.
• Direct remineralization. Najibfard and colleagues at UT Health San Antonio tested 5% and 10% nano-hydroxyapatite against a 1,100 ppm fluoride toothpaste in 30 adults and found significant remineralization of early enamel lesions with both concentrations.
• Sensitivity. A 2023 meta-analysis in Biomimetics pooled 44 trials and found hydroxyapatite reduced dentin hypersensitivity by roughly 40% versus placebo and about 23% versus fluoride.
• In gum specifically. Porciani and Grandini ran a double-blind trial of 107 people using a hydroxyapatite chewing gum and found significant sensitivity reduction. The ingredient's benefit survives the format.
• Safety. The EU's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety, in its 2025 opinion, considered nano-hydroxyapatite safe up to 29.5% in toothpaste and 10% in mouthwash, finding no mutagenic, cytotoxic or inflammatory effects in the particles assessed. Detail in is nano-hydroxyapatite safe?

What's in NanoChew, and why

NanoChew is a dentist-formulated nano-hydroxyapatite chewing gum with over 500 five-star reviews, built for exactly the window this article is about: the twenty to sixty minutes after you drink something acidic.

Why coffee drinkers in particular stick with it:

• It fits the habit you already have. Coffee, then gum. No sink, no bottle, no extra step in your day.
• It works on both problems. Faster acid clearance protects structure; faster pigment clearance and a smoother, better-mineralized surface help with colour.
• Timed to the acid. 2 to 3 pieces a day, after your coffee and after meals — the windows nothing else in your routine reaches.
• Transparent formula. Every ingredient listed with a reason for being there.
• Best price in the category. $29.99 for a 60-piece pouch is $0.50 a piece, or $0.45 on Subscribe & Save with 10% off — among the lowest costs per piece of the nano-hydroxyapatite gums we've compared, in our full comparison.
• Flavour and texture that last the window. A gum that falls apart at minute six never makes it to twenty. That's the difference between a routine and a good intention.

Keep the coffee. Cover the window. Shop NanoChew — $29.99 for 60 pieces, 10% off on Subscribe & Save →

A day on coffee, done properly

Nothing in that day asks you to drink less coffee. That is deliberate — advice people won't follow isn't advice. For more on dose and timing, see how much remineralizing gum per day.

When to see a dentist

A remineralizing routine supports enamel that is still there. It is not a treatment for damage that has already progressed. Book an appointment if you notice:

• Teeth looking yellower overall rather than just surface-stained — as enamel thins, the yellower dentine beneath shows through, and no amount of whitening fixes that.
• Edges of the front teeth looking translucent or chipped. A classic erosion sign.
• Cupping or small dents on the chewing surfaces of molars.
• Sensitivity that's getting worse, or pain that lingers after cold.
• Frequent reflux or vomiting. Stomach acid is far more aggressive than anything you drink, and your dentist should know. If this applies, our posts on dry mouth and GLP-1 medications and teeth are relevant too.

Also mention it to your dentist if you drink coffee all day, take a medication that dries your mouth, or have cut out fluoride. All three change their risk assessment, and all three are things they can only account for if they know.

Frequently asked questions

Is coffee bad for your teeth?

Mildly acidic and significantly staining — but the real issue is pattern, not potency. Coffee measures about pH 4.85–5.70, which puts most cups at or below the 5.5 threshold where enamel loses mineral. It is far milder than a cola at 2.37. What makes it matter is that you drink it daily, often slowly, and often instead of water. Keep the coffee, finish it faster, rinse, and chew NanoChew for 20–30 minutes afterward.

Should I brush my teeth after drinking coffee?

Not straight away. Acid softens the enamel surface and brushing then abrades it. Wait about an hour. Rinse with plain water immediately, chew a remineralizing gum during the recovery window, and brush later.

What's the worst drink for your teeth?

By pH, colas and energy drinks lead — Coca-Cola Caffeine Free at 2.34, Jolt Power Cola at 2.47. But sipping pattern changes the ranking: sports drinks nursed through a workout and flavoured alcoholic drinks sipped all evening combine low pH with a large acid reserve and long exposure, which is the worst combination of all.

Is sparkling water bad for your teeth?

Plain sparkling mineral water measured pH 4.96–5.25 and was classified minimally erosive. Carbonation alone is not the problem the internet makes it. Flavoured sparkling waters are more acidic, because the flavouring is usually citric acid. If you drink seltzer constantly, choose plain and don't sip it over hours.

Does diet soda damage teeth?

Yes. Diet Coke measures pH 3.10 and sits in the same erosive band as regular Sprite. The acid does the erosion, not the sugar — removing the sugar removes a bacterial problem, not a chemical one.

Is cold brew better for my teeth than hot coffee?

Barely. Rao and Fuller measured pH 4.96 for cold brew against 4.85 for hot brew on the same Ethiopian bean — about 0.1 of a unit, and both below the 5.5 threshold. Cold brew is lower in titratable acidity, so there is a real difference in acid reserve. But if switching turns a 10-minute hot coffee into a 90-minute iced one, you've made the bigger variable worse.

Does adding milk to coffee protect my teeth?

It helps on two counts. Milk raised the measured pH from 5.13 to 6.20, above the enamel threshold, and it brings calcium and phosphate into your mouth. The caveat from the same study is that the milk coffee had the highest titratable acidity of the four tested. So add the milk — and still chew the gum.

Can coffee stains be removed?

Surface stains, largely yes — professional cleaning and whitening work on them. But there's a catch worth knowing: in a 2025 in vitro study, bleached enamel took up over twice the coffee stain of intact enamel, and acid-etched enamel about three times as much. Whitening a roughened surface means the stains come back faster. Keeping enamel smooth and well mineralized is the more durable approach.

Does a straw actually help?

Yes, for cold drinks. It routes liquid past the front teeth, cutting both staining and acid contact where you notice it most. It does nothing for a hot coffee sipped from a cup, and it doesn't protect your back teeth.

How is remineralizing gum different from regular sugar-free gum?

Regular sugar-free gum raises saliva flow to roughly 10–12 times resting rate, which clears acid and pigment faster — genuinely useful, and the reason the ADA credits 20 minutes of it after meals. But it then relies entirely on your own saliva's calcium and phosphate to rebuild the surface. A remineralizing gum like NanoChew brings nano-hydroxyapatite with it, so the mineral supply doesn't depend on how hydrated you happen to be.

How many pieces a day should I chew?

2 to 3 pieces, 20 to 30 minutes each, after coffee and after meals. One after your morning coffee, one after lunch, one after dinner covers the three biggest acid windows. A 60-piece pouch of NanoChew runs 20 to 30 days at that rate.

Will this stop my teeth going yellow?

Partly, and it's worth being precise about why. Faster pigment clearance and a smoother, better-mineralized enamel surface both reduce how readily stains take hold. But as enamel thins, the yellower dentine underneath shows through, and that is not a stain — it's structure, and whitening won't touch it. Protecting the enamel you have is the part you can still act on.

I drink coffee all day. Is it too late?

Enamel that's already gone doesn't come back, but the mineral balance is something you change today. Early mineral loss can remineralize, and sensitivity is usually the first thing people notice improving — hydroxyapatite studies report improvement within one to four weeks. Start with the protocol above and get a dentist to look at where you actually stand.

Where can I buy NanoChew?

At nanochewgum.com, where Subscribe & Save takes 10% off every pouch and brings it to about $0.45 a piece, and on Amazon. The site is the better price per piece.

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This article is for general information only and is not medical or dental advice. It has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, and NanoChew is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. pH values are measured figures from the published studies cited and will vary by product batch, brand, preparation and region. Research findings described here refer to the specific products and formulations tested in those studies. If you have tooth pain, sensitivity or visible enamel changes, see a dentist.