'Healthy' smoothies not so innocent for teeth, says dentist

www.grub4life.org.uk today reports that some parents are unwittingly causing their children's teeth to rot by regularly feeding them 'healthy' fruit juices and smoothies, a leading dentist has warned. 16-01-2012

High-street practitioners regularly see children with teeth worn away to little more than stumps due to the youngsters' mouths being bathed in the acidic drinks day-in, day-out, said Kathryn Harley, dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons.
 
National surveys show half of five-year-olds exhibit signs of 'tooth wear', caused by acidic drinks dissolving and softening enamel.

Harley said a generation of children was growing up refusing to drink water because they had been fed fruit juice since they were babies.

A spokesman for the British Soft Drinks Association claimed that if fruit juice was drunk through a straw, "the fluid will be directed to the back of the mouth and its contact with the teeth will be reduced" - although Harley disputed that was true.
 
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