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Top 10
Tooth Trashers
Here are the top 10 items almost guaranteed to damage your teeth. They are:
- Bottled Water: drinking tooth beneficial local tap water is steadily being replaced by bottled water and water filtration systems that don’t fight cavities. Drink tap, or look for bottles enhanced with fluoride.
- Starches, like pasta, pretzels and potato chips. Saliva break these down into simple sugars. For your teeth, a slice of bread isn’t much different than a piece of cake.
- Medicinal products, like antacids, cough drops and breath mints. Gram for gram, these items may contain the same amount of sugar as chocolate.
- Sports drinks. These can be worse than soda for teeth since they are high in enamel eroding acid and sugars.
- Coffee drinks. Your favorite grand double mocha latte extraordinaire can have as much sugar as a candy bar.
- Juice. Surprisingly, an 8-ounce glass of orange juice and a same-size serving of some sodas offer approximately the same amount of sugar, 30 grams.
- Soda. High in processed sugars, and enamel-eroding acids. Diet sodas too! (acids)
- Hard candies. No surprise here. Your teeth get bathed in sugar.
- Gum. Constant acid assualt. Opt for gums of the sugarless variety.
- Fruit-based products, like leathers and roll-ups. These snacks are not much different than candy.
Source: Chicago Dental Society
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