True or False: putting a tooth in milk after it falls out of your mouth preserves it?

I've heard this mentioned in a health class I took as factual, but then I watched a show called Mission Hill with the same situation, and it was expressed as an old Wives' tale. Is this factual or false?


Thanks.True or False: putting a tooth in milk after it falls out of your mouth preserves it?
Teeth are preserved whether you put them in something or not. Think of how archeologists find skeletons of ancient animals or even people and their teeth are still in tact.





I would say it's false because of lactose, which is sugar.. Sugar rots teeth. My brother actually got cavities because he drank milk all the time and never brushed his teeth.





Interesting question thoughTrue or False: putting a tooth in milk after it falls out of your mouth preserves it?
Okay let me explain this as I know it.





If you have an avulsed tooth, the VERY BEST thing you can do is to just make sure it doesn't have like big clumps of dirt on it, rinse it in isotonic saline if it has obvious debris (same concentration of salt as your tissues, like a teaspoon in a glass of warm not hot water) and place it back in the socket it came out of. Really.





Sometimes, like if you broke some bone near the socket and it's not accessible, you may not be able to put it right back in. In this case you should hold it in your mouth so that it is at least exposed to saliva which is good to keep it alive.





Basically if you loose a tooth like that, it's kinda like taking care of a transplant organ, like those coolers with ';body part'; written on them, you know? :) You want to keep it alive untill you can reestablish blood supply to it.





Milk would not be the best thing to do at all. If for some reason you can't keep the tooth in your own saliva, you should use isotonic saline solution, not milk. Milk would contain lactose that would not be good for the tooth, and the balance of ions would be all wrong for body tissues so you would be either drying the tooth out or waterlogging it, I'm not sure.





It probably comes from the fact that milk is good to drink for your teeth, since it has calcium and mineralizing elements in it, and so someone thought that it would be good to sit a tooth in it, which it is actually not.





Remember, shove the tooth back in your mouth! you have a waaay higher chance of saving it if you shove it back in and get to a dentist ASAP!
its true.. they say that in the dentist commercials with the dinosaurs lol





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it's true. But not for long if it's not refrigerated.
True. my friend lost her tooth and she put it in milk. it was just fine :]