Most people are told from a young age that certain foods are bad for their teeth, that filling their diet with soda and sweets are with eventually give you cavities. This is often said automatically, almost dismissively by parents trying desperately to get their kids to sort out their diet.
However, simply being told to never eat sugar isn’t very helpful in trying to build a well rounded diet. It also isn’t really the complete truth about sweets, which is substantially more complicated.
In the interest of helping people understand more about their oral health, here’s what you should know about how sugar can actually affect your oral health.
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