This article fails to mention that fluoride is in virtually all foods and beverages - even sugary drinks, according to the USDA Fluoride in Foods database. It also fails to mention that vitamin D deficiency can cause tooth decay and that some teas have a fluoride content higher than allowed in public drinking water by the EPA. Individuals have developed fluoride-induced bone damage from drinking copious amounts of tea and 70% of US children and adolescents are fluoride overdosed and afflicted with dental fluorosis - white spotted and/or yellow splotched teeth, according to federal data (NHANES)
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Nytimes
1 year agoThe Worst Foods and Drinks for Your Teeth
Sugary foods - and in particular, those composed of sucrose, or table sugar - are especially bad for your teeth because harmful bacteria thrive on them, Dr. de Aguiar Ribeiro said.