{"id":6050,"date":"2024-09-27T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolinacompletedental.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:10:59","slug":"does-your-chewing-gum-fight-tooth-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinacompletedental.com\/blog\/does-your-chewing-gum-fight-tooth-decay\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Chewing Gum Fight Tooth Decay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6052\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Xylitol-Gum-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Goose Creek dentist, Dr. Barganier of Carolina Complete Dental Care, tells patients about xylitol and how it can boost their oral hygiene routines.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Avid gum chewers rejoice! Your love for the sticky, stretchy stuff can be beneficial for your oral health\u2014depending on its ingredients. If you\u2019re chewing gum with artificial sweeteners such as sorbitol, sucralose, aspartame, or mannitol, it\u2019s true you\u2019re avoiding traditional sugar, but your teeth aren\u2019t as likely to thank you as they might be if your stick of choice were 100% xylitol-sweetened.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is Xylitol?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, if you\u2019re wondering how to pronounce xylitol, its prefix is just like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xyl<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ophone\u2019s, and the fact that it tastes as sweet as sugar but carries almost half the calories per gram (2.4 compared to 4) might make you want to grab a mallet and beat out a tune. But the best part is that xylitol is a powerful plaque fighter, and fighting plaque is essential for cavity and <a href=\"\/#GumDisease\">gum disease<\/a>\u00a0prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Is Xylitol a Marvel Superhero?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It might not be featured in cool comic books, but <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speareducation.com\/spear-review\/2016\/01\/xylitol-the-biggest-game-changer-for-dental-hygiene\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xylitol is a game-changer for dental hygiene<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Before we leave you to your research, we want to remind you that it works best in conjunction with a strong<a href=\"\/#OralHygiene\"> oral hygiene<\/a> routine, not as a replacement for one!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have any questions about xylitol or anything else related to your smile\u2019s health, feel free to <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\">contact your Goose Creek dentist, Dr. Barganier of Carolina Complete Dental Care today!<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The content of this blog is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of qualified health providers with questions you may have regarding medical conditions.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avid gum chewers rejoice! Your love for the sticky, stretchy stuff can be beneficial for your oral health\u2014depending on its ingredients. If you\u2019re chewing gum with artificial sweeteners such as sorbitol, sucralose, aspartame, or mannitol, it\u2019s true you\u2019re avoiding traditional sugar, but your teeth aren\u2019t as likely to thank you as they might be if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,4],"tags":[153,94,83],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-dental-health","category-patient-care","tag-healthy-chewing-gum","tag-oral-health","tag-xylitol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Benefits of Chewing Xylitol Gum in Goose Creek, SC | Carolina Complete Dental Care<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Goose Creek dentist, Dr. Barganier of Carolina 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