U. ROCHESTER (US) — You won’t be the only one feasting this Thanksgiving. Harmful bacteria await their own holiday meal, launching one of the biggest assaults of the year on your teeth.
Thankfully, a few foods common at the holiday dinner table—like cranberries and wine—offer new leads in the effort to stop tooth decay.
The Thanksgiving Day battle for oral health hinges on microbes like Streptococcus mutans. Most cookies, pies, and the like contain mountains of sugar, but it’s not the sugar itself that causes tooth decay. Rather, S. mutans and other bacteria in our mouths—billions of individual microbes all waiting for their next snack—feast on the sugars, stick on your teeth, and then churn out acid that eats away at tooth enamel. Read more...
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