Five-year-old children, an average of five dental caries

Teeth of the National Anti-published by a group of China's oral health epidemiological survey showed that half of our population suffering from dental caries, dental caries national total of about 2,000,000,000, of which 77% of children 5 years of age have dental caries, the average child Nearly 5 caries.

The prevention of dental diseases, head of Shanghai, the city of nine hospitals, said Professor Feng Xiping, with the improvement of living standards in recent years, the prevalence of dental caries is becoming a rising trend year by year, tooth decay has become a common and frequently-occurring one of the oral cavity, the World Health Organization of dental caries have been classified as second only to cardiovascular and cancer prevention and control of a third key non-communicable diseases. Medical research has confirmed that the oral bacteria for the synthesis of polysaccharides to sugar and dental plaque formation on the surface, then bacteria in dental plaque growth in the breeding, fermentation of sugars to produce acid, leading to tooth enamel, dental The enamel damage is the root cause of the formation of dental caries.

Feng-ping said that dental caries away from the many good way, in addition to the traditional morning and evening brushing and regular oral health, pit and fissure endures recent study found that xylitol does not cause tooth decay is a natural acid plant sweet Deodorant, the world's average utilization rate of 70%. In its place was found in Finland because of the food, supplies, widespread use of oral xylitol, the 5-year-old dental caries is no more than 70% of children; 200 pairs of mother and son on the comparative study showed that mothers in the first two years of post-natal day chewing xylitol gum Can significantly reduce mother-to-child transmission of the risk of tooth decay bacteria.

At present, dental prevention and control steering group has carried out in cooperation with the Finnish expert, "xylitol tooth decay prevention," research, the experts out prescriptions to protect teeth: brushing teeth + postprandial morning and evening before going to bed chewing xylitol gum.