[HOOK]
Ranking the worst things for your kid's teeth.
Number one is not what you think.
[F]
A bottle or sippy cup of anything but water at bedtime.
Sugar pooling against the teeth for eight hours with no saliva flow.
Nothing on this list is worse.
[F]
Juice sipped slowly all afternoon.
It is not the amount of sugar, it is the hours of
contact.
[D]
Gummy vitamins.
Parents are shocked by this one.
Sticky, they sit in the grooves of the molars,
and they get taken every single day.
[D]
Fruit snacks and gummy candy.
Same problem.
Sticky beats sweet every time.
[D]
Raisins and dried fruit.
Healthy food, genuinely bad for teeth.
Concentrated sugar that glues itself into the grooves.
[C]
Crackers and those little fish crackers.
Turn to paste and pack into the molars.
Worse than most candy.
[C]
Sports drinks.
Acidic on top of sugary, which is a double hit.
[B]
Chocolate.
Genuinely one of the better options here.
It melts and clears quickly instead of sticking around.
[LAND IT]
If you take one thing from this.
It is not how much sugar.
It is how long it stays on the teeth.