Please Eat Your Candy this Halloween.
It’s that time of year again when dentists across the U.S. send out press releases announcing they will buy back candy from children after Halloween.
This is a noble activity but it doesn’t really help reduce cavities, especially among children whose diet consists of soda on a daily basis — soda being the real culprit of tooth decay in children.
In our office, we keep a bowl of candy corn in the waiting area during the month of October — and let me just say that we replenish it often! I wish you could have seen one patient who wanted to put a candy corn on each canine tooth (so that he looked like he had fangs) and walk down to the exam room. He cracked me up!
So please, enjoy your candy (in moderation!) and don’t forget to brush and floss your teeth — especially before going to bed.
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