Milk causes rotten teeth?

floss2

sofababe wrote: »

My neighbour's 7 year old son has been in hospital today having 4 teeth extracted and another one filled. She claims he doesn't eat sugar ....

He may not eat sugar but that doesn't mean he has a sugar-free diet.

Prothet_of_Doom

My son had 8 teeth extracted at age 8, he was breast fed and drank lots of cows milk. The dentist got a serious ballocking from my wife when he tried to tell our son it was his fault due to sweets, as he didn't eat any, and was religious in his teeth brushing.

Amazingly his adult teeth are perfect, but he hates all dentists with a vengence.

brook2jack

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

My son had 8 teeth extracted at age 8, he was breast fed and drank lots of cows milk. The dentist got a serious ballocking from my wife when he tried to tell our son it was his fault due to sweets, as he didn't eat any, and was religious in his teeth brushing.

Amazingly his adult teeth are perfect, but he hates all dentists with a vengence.

Cows milk does not cause decay and breast milk only can theoretically if continued to three ish and used for comfort rather than food. Even then its mostly front teeth that would be affected. So milk will not have caused your child's problems.

Eating or drinking anything with sugar in it more than three times a day will be the problem. That doesn't necesarily mean sweets, yoghurt, dried fruit such as raisins, fruit juice, cereal bars, cereals can all cause problems. It's important that dentist and parents recognise what caused the decay and change the diet.

pollypenny

Really interesting information from our dentists above! Could have done with it on the DT thread about breast feeding, too!

I do wish I had had the advantages of fluoride and sealing teeth when I was young. Most of my friends have mouths full of fillings, while our grown up children have one or two.

Of course, the fact that I got through O-levels, A-levels and a degree sucking Mintoes to aid concentration didn't help!

Sharon87

As mentioned earlier on the thread eat cheese after something sweet as it helps to neutralise the acidity in the mouth. I saw on a TV show they done an experiment someone ate something sweet tested the acidity and again a bit later. Then they did it again once acidity had reached normality and this time the person ate cheese and done the same tests. It completely neutralised the acid in the mouth.

I think this is why my teeth are still strong despite me rarely going to the dentist! (I love cheese).

So tell kids to eat a babybell or something after their sweets to help protect their teeth.

Toothsmith

But sweets and cheese --> fat kids!

Sharon87

Toothsmith wrote: »

But sweets and cheese --> fat kids!

Ok a babybell light then... after fruit

JohnPeri

Generally brushing tooths is the way to keep teeth healthy.

[Deleted User]

Milk is another one of those hidden sugars we use. Its just lactose sugar, if used in cereals such as porridge water it down 50/50 with water, and only use skimmed milk

brook2jack

Cows milk does NOT cause decay. Even if it did watering it down or drinking skimmed milk would not affect tooth decay as its the frequency of which you eat sugar not the amount of sugar that you consume that's a problem.

However soya milk , alot of milk substitutes such as rice and oat milk can cause decay.

You should be looking to keep sugar attacks to meal Times ie no more than three episodes a day. So no sugar attacks in between meal Times.