Never had problems with cavities until...

[metamorph]

I stopped eating sweets.

I have had a bit of a sweet tooth for pretty much all my life. About 2 years ago I stopped eating sweets. Have not been to the dentist in those 2 years because there were never any major dental issues in the last 10-15 years. And now, 4 cavities all at once.

Irony of life....

[VinceG]

I think dental caries is still an ongoing area of research. They're trying to develop a vaccine. There's been some revelatory studies, I've heard.

[Dimond]

What does no sweets mean exactly? If it's no junk food (processed sugar & unhealthy substitutes), getting cavities has nothing to do with that. If it means you also eliminated fruit, which is one of the most necessary foods, than that's definitely the cause. Health issues are very complex. Just because you stop doing something & something negative occurs, doesn't mean it was wrong to do. Just depends on what else you're doing and what was wrong to begin with which is often difficult to know.

[mindset]

I guess it only means to show that sweets aren't the only edible stuff that gives us the cavities...Depriving yourself from sweets was a bad idea after all.

[goldberg]

Originally Posted by metamorph

I stopped eating sweets.

I have had a bit of a sweet tooth for pretty much all my life. About 2 years ago I stopped eating sweets. Have not been to the dentist in those 2 years because there were never any major dental issues in the last 10-15 years. And now, 4 cavities all at once.

Irony of life....

Are you sure that you have not increased other sugary intakes to make up for it? Or that you are following your oral hygiene as stringently as you previously did (brush 2 times a day, floss and gargle).

It is not just about how much sugary stuff, but about hold much time it spends in contact with your teeth. So drinking soda through a straw is better than just drinking it straight.

[liamona]

There's a lot of good threads on cavities in this forum. Many of them go into how just eliminating sweets from your diet, and having good dental hygiene, does very little to build healthy teeth.

[metamorph]

Thank you all.

The answer IMO is pretty obvious to me, as Goldberg said:

Originally Posted by goldberg

Or that you are following your oral hygiene as stringently as you previously did (brush 2 times a day, floss and gargle).

[goldberg]

Originally Posted by metamorph

Thank you all.

The answer IMO is pretty obvious to me, as Goldberg said:

It is a shame I can't manage to stick to it religiously though, just went to the dentist yesterday and I need a cavity filled, though to be fair it is related to a filling done by my previous dentist who is no where near as good as my current one.