Teeth should be thankful for cranberry
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, says researchers at the University of Rochester.
The Thanksgiving Day battle for oral health hinges on microbes like Streptococcus mutans and other bacteria in our mouths that feast on sugars, stick on your teeth, and then churn out acid that eats away at tooth enamel.
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