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The Bottled Water Boom and Your Child’s Teeth
Keeping your child's gums and teeth healthy requires more than just daily brushing and flossing. During a check-up, your child's dentist might inquire about your drinking water supply. That's because fluoride, a substance naturally found in water, plays an important role in cavity prevention and the healthy development of children's teeth.
Fluoride combats tooth decay in two ways. It strengthens the tooth enamel, the hard shiny substance that protects the teeth, so that it can better resist the acids formed by plaque. Fluoride also allows teeth damaged by acid to repair, or remineralize themselves. While fluoride can't repair cavities, it can reverse low levels of tooth decay, which could prevent newcavities from forming.
Though fluoride benefits adults, it is especially critical to the health of developing teeth in children. Tooth decay remains one of the most common ...
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