General guidance suggests a first check in childhood (around ages 9 to 11, and again at 17 to 21), then every 4 to 6 years in adulthood, and more often if you have risk factors such as diabetes, high blood pressure, a strong family history, or you already take cholesterol medicine
While drinking water can help rehydrate the mouth, its not a replacement for saliva, which contains compounds that help protect teeth from the damage of Streptococcus mutans , the bacteria that causes tooth decay
Let's take a look at the rating systems you commonly see: What is a MERV Rating
Statistical analyses PCR amplified sequence data were truncated from barcode and primer sequences and spliced using FLASH (V1.2.7) (Mago and Salzberg 2011) for each sample read, and the resulting spliced sequences were filtered using fastp software (Bokulich et al