Wow. That’s profound isn’t it? Of course we all know this, but I’ve always pretty much stuck to the “sugar” thing. We’ve always been pretty good with sugar and babyboy – severely limiting his sugar intake. You ought to see what we do to the poor kid on Halloween. And Christmas? He is so well trained that Christmas morning he takes a few pieces of candy and gives the rest to me. I don’t let him have any sugared drinks at all – never have. I was always one of those parents that yanked the bottle from his mouth as soon as he was done with it, never let him fall asleep with it, and I “lost” his pacifier when he was 6 weeks old. Such a mean parent. But I think all of this contributes to the fact that we’ve actually had very few problems with his teeth – at least so far.
Anyway. He’s had a tooth with a cavity that we knew was going to have to come out – heck – two years or so ago. The dentist was like try to hold on to it for as long as you can. The tooth was due to come out when he’s 9.
Well, the time came. The tooth had to go, he was in alot of pain over the weekend. Come Tuesday, off to the dentist we went. While at the dentist, we learned that not only can sugar rot your teeth, but potato chips can as well. This is because the potassium in the chips turn to sugar. Once we’ve chewed potato chips, they tend to stay stuck in our teeth. Learn something new everyday.
So apparently, babyboy has discovered he’s not fond of getting his teeth extracted, and has been brushing his teeth twice a day – and using listerine – since Tuesday. Begging for potato chips has been cut in half. He’s actually very lucky. He now has no cavities. Alot of his friends have had some major dental work done – one of his friends had root canals done when he was in kindergarden.