Sugar is not the bane of dental caries

Worried that dental caries is the main reason for parents to limit their children's sugar. Want to have healthy teeth to eat less sugar and so on, is still some misconceptions still exist. Recently, a large number of foreign study noted that the relationship between the sugar and the caries is very small, because only a viscosity of healthy teeth, food, eating spacing and oral hygiene is much more important role than sugar.
Some foods have ingredients that inhibit bacterial action at the mouth, which can protect the teeth from erosion, such as the milk contains caseinate peptide can inhibit the activity of bacteria, which is why, despite the milk contains lactose, but the ability to produce dental caries, other foods, such as cocoa in tannins and licorice licorice acid, both of which can inhibit oral bacteria. In addition, the role of calcium and phosphorus has a patch of tooth enamel.
Fluoride to prevent dental caries has long been applied. Many developed countries in the past 20 years, greatly reducing tooth decay is almost entirely the effect of the application of fluoride, especially toothpaste. Caries-free rate of developed Western countries has increased in recent years, but did not reduce the level of sugar consumption. Seems fluoride protection is very important, it can make the enamel more resistant to acid erosion.
The saliva is the most important role protect teeth saliva contains calcium and phosphorus can repair the enamel. But while everyone was sleeping, do not produce saliva, so before you go to bed, be sure to clean the mouth, not sleep because of the bacteria in the mouth.
Currently, in many countries in Europe, lower dental caries incidence in England and Wales, although it maintained a high sugar consumption per capita.
So sugar is not terrible, it depends on how you eat:
● sugar intake to less than 10 kg per person per year, that is, per person daily intake of 30 grams of sugar, can be maintained at an acceptable low level of incidence of dental caries. At present, China's per capita intake of sugar below 7 kg, even appropriate increase does not necessarily pose a serious threat to be caries incidence.
Enjoy the sweet taste of sugar, but also for their own oral health should do something about the obligation is to pay attention to the oral health of the individual, it is best to brush your teeth immediately after eating sweets, at least immediately mouthwash every day fluoride toothpaste to remove plaque is an effective way to prevent tooth decay.