Health and Beauty

1860

Action of Sugar, on the Teeth

M. Larez, of France, in the course of his investigations on the teeth, has arrived at the following conclusions: 1st , That refined sugar, from either cane or beets is injurious to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with these organs or by the gas developed, owing to its stoppage in the stomach. 2d, That if a tooth is macerated in a saturated solution of sugar, it is so much altered in the chemical composition that it becomes gelatinous, and its enamal opaque, spongy and easily broken, this modification is due not to free acid, but to a tendency of sugar to combine with the calcerous basis of the tooth."

What say our Candy-eating gentry to the above?