Friday, May 23, 2014

Chocolate for Teeth!?!

By Dr. Scott Thompson, DDS, Winning With Smiles

Chocolate to the rescue! Eh? … It turns out theobromine, a natural alkaloid found in cocoa works perhaps as well as fluoride to remineralize teeth that have begun to decay. A preliminary laboratory study of the alkaloid comparing it with fluoride to reverse the demineralizing process in tooth decay found them statistically equal.
Can you imagine it now? Brush your teeth clean and then smear a bit of chocolate on them before bed. For those of you on the cutting edge, there is already an “up-scale” chocolate toothpaste emphasizing the theobromine.
Don't jump to conclusions just yet. There is more research going on to verify these preliminary results.
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