Dr. Katie To shows how frequent eating, not poor brushing, causes cavities by keeping teeth in an acidic environment long enough to damage enamel. Fixing teeth without addressing how often someone eats means cavities keep coming back.
Here's our adult patient. And you can see that he's got a lot of cavities at the gum line. There are a lot of other things going on here. We've got a little crossbite, but I did want to point out that these cavities are from having a habit of eating very often. Cavities are not a brushing problem. They are an environment problem. The acid window. This is the root cause. And in wellness dentistry, we always get to the root cause. It's one thing to treat your teeth as a mechanic mindset, but we want to get to the root cause of why these things are happening. The acid window.
