The warm feel of the bright sun caressing your skin can rejuvenate many people, bringing with it thoughts of beautiful summer skies and fun activities. The smile that often comes naturally at this feeling may also benefit from the sun’s summer presence, since your body reacts to moderate sun exposure by producing vitamin D (often called the sunshine vitamin). Encinitas periodontist, Dr. Kania, lists a few of the ways that summer and the sunshine vitamin can significantly improve your oral health.
What You Should Know About the Sunshine Vitamin
- Vitamin D is essential to your oral health for a number of reasons, one of which is necessary role in your body’s calcium absorption. Aside from strengthening your supportive jawbone, calcium helps keep teeth strong by forming and maintaining tooth enamel. The mineral also helps your muscles and blood vessels work properly, and helps transmit your nerves’ impulses, thereby facilitating good oral health and function. (more…)