Eating Patterns, Diet and Dental Caries

From Volume 34, Issue 5, June 2007 | Pages 295-300

Authors

Sara Karjalainen

DDS, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Lemminkäisenkatu 2, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland

Articles by Sara Karjalainen

Abstract

There is new evidence showing that excessive sugar consumption increases the risk of caries, even if the correlation between sugar intake and dental health has weakened due to exposure to fluoride. Moreover, there are still patient groups whose fluoride exposure seems to be insufficient to tolerate the generally increased level of sugar intake.

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