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Foods Your Dentist Avoids

Katie Drummond, Prevention

Fact: Nobody looks forward to her biannual rendezvous at the dentist's. But the discomfort from the poking and scraping of routine cleanings is nothing compared to the pain (not to mention the expense) of more intensive procedures, like fillings and root canals. So wouldn't it be nice to seriously lower your chances of needing dental work with some strategic eating?

"There are plenty of foods that people should be avoiding if they want to keep their teeth in good shape," says Guillaume Lepine, DDS, a Massachusetts-based dentist. We polled some of the top oral hygiene experts in the country to find out what's not in their kitchen--and how they prevent food-related tooth damage whenever naughty nibbles do manage to make it past their lips.