Food-especially sweets- can be devastating to your teeth. Eat one piece of candy, and you'll stimulate millions of bacteria. The bacteria feed on the sugars in the food and produce acid as a result.The acids dissolve the calcium and phosphate of your tooth enamel. In time, the enamel becomes so weak that the bacteria break through. the next thing you know you are facing a dentist and a drill.
1.What causes bacteria to produce acid?
2.What effect does the acid produced by bacteria have on calcium and phosphate in tooth enamel?
3.What causes a cavity to form ?