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My childhood explained.

Trying to do exactly this for my kids:

"Because these assemblages are found in saliva, targeting them early on could be a therapeutic strategy to prevent childhood tooth decay, says Koo. “If you block this binding or disrupt the assemblage before it arrives on the tooth and causes damage, that could be a preventive strategy.”"

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How? Do you just mean by good oral care practices from an early age? Or something more off the beaten path?

I assume they mean figuring out what mechanism they're using to bind and attacking it to prevent formation.

Sorry, my bad. When I wrote it, I realized it might imply I'm doing something special.

I'm just doing the good oral care practices and it's working. My kid is going through dentists visits with flying colors. Not to jinx it.

Xylitol can inhibit multispecies biolfilms [1]. Colonization, from what I understand, is critical in the first year of life and as teeth erupt. Some people have bad teeth and good teeth regardless of their hygiene practices because of early colonization. Artificial sweeteners other than xylitol generally supply energy to undesirable bacteria.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19178100/

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