We're going to talk about the effects that gum has on cavities and gum disease. Many patients inquire about whether or not chewing gum can have any sort of affect on cavities and gum disease. The good news is, they have actually found that there are new gums out there, new chewing gums, that are actually helping prevent cavities. And it does that a couple different ways. But first of all, when you're chewing gum, what you're doing is, when you're biting down on the gum you're stimulating your saliva glands to stimulate saliva. Saliva is something that's produced in our mouth naturally to help protect, cleanse and lubricate the teeth. So the more that you chew, the more saliva that you generate. And we know that the more saliva you generate,
