Have you ever thought about what holiday celebrations are doing to your teeth? Those concerned about staining are likely to avoid coffee and red wine, but there are apparently more dangers for your smile in celebrations.

Holiday celebrations often include sugar-filled indulgences such as desserts, candy, punch, and alcoholic drinks. Foods with sugar and starch (pies,  cookies, pastries, cake) can be especially hard on your smile. Together they energize s. mutans, a powerful bacteria that resides in your mouth, which will create a “superplaque” that is more acidic, stickier, and holds on harder than regular plaque build up from sweets alone. Sodas and carbonated beverages that may be added to punch concoctions include acids that can damage the enamel of your teeth.

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Joining us in March as the Featured Guest Blogger of the Month is California Raisins. They’ve got a team of nutrition professionals who want to ensure all of us are living as healthy as possible, providing information about healthy, natural snacks. See last week’s article about the benefits of Raisins and Walking.

We all know California Raisins are good for your diet and taste buds, but did you know they offer benefits for maintaining healthy choppers, too? A recent study conducted at the College of Dentistry, University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC), and published in the journal, Phytochemistry Letters, reveals raisins may benefit oral health. The fruit possesses antimicrobial phytochemicals that repress growth of some oral bacteria associated with dental cavities and gum disease!
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