Tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide* So what is it? Tooth decay is also known as 'dental caries' or having 'a cavity'. Cavities are caused by plaque on your teeth, using sugars in your diet to destroy tooth structure. The above picture is a slide of a tooth showing two cavities, and their spread within the tooth. Cavities are a preventable disease: • Avoid sugar in the diet and read our blog on prevention here. • Brush your teeth to remove plaque

Those dreaded words: 'You have a cavity in your back tooth'. How can we avoid the problem of cavities? We'll look first at the graph pictured above (bear with me): Stephan Curve It's called the stephan curve, and it describes what happens in your mouth when you eat something sugary. The middle red line is the PH or acidity of your mouth, if the blue line dips below it, cavities start to be formed. So we can see that a few minutes after eating or drinking, the blue line will d

Breakfast the most important meal of the day? There's been a lot of talk about sugar in your breakfast recently. The reason that this is so vital for dental health, is because what you eat in the morning will stay with you the whole day. Often, the next time people will brush their teeth is at night, and so if you have something really sugary in the morning, changes are it's going to have a long time to damage your teeth. N.H.S. Article http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/02February/