Pleasanton Dentist - Sweet Tooth - Smiles by Design in Livermore

 

Researchers at West Virginia University are discovering that a person's attraction to sweets may be genetic.

A seven-year study of more than 7,000 people shows that there is a gene that predisposes people to eat more candy or sweets.

If we dentists could check for the presence of this gene through a simple saliva test, then we can help alert parents.

Those children may need to brush their teeth and visit the dentist more often,
reports the State Journal in West Virginia.

To help take care of a sweet tooth you should use daily fluoride rinses and or acid neutralizing mouthwashes. Also you shoul even think about certain rinses and pastes that contain bioavailable Calcium and Phosphate ions to replenish the ones destroyed by the microscpoic acid attack of the sweets against the human enamel of the teeth.