Sugar shock - hidden in seemingly innocuous foods is your pearly whites' worst enemy

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When he started out, Frachella thought that fluoride would be a miracle drug for dentistry: "I thought if we optimized topical and systemic fluoride, that we would eliminate tooth decay in 30 years. I was naive, and didn't foresee that we would be drinking battery acid by the tens of thousands of liters, thanks to the sugar lobby in the United States. And the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association have caved to them, taking grant money from the sugar industry."

Even those profitable soda and snack vending machines at schools are part of the problem: "In the long run, what are those costing the parents and the kids, in terms of not just tooth decay but diabetes and obesity," Lausier pondered