Fat kids have better teeth

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So this is why dental chairs are not oversized . . .

April 2, 2008, 1:14 pm

Overweight Kids Have Fewer Cavities - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog

Overweight children have healthier teeth than normal weight kids, a new study shows.

The surprising finding, published this month in the journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, comes from researchers at the Eastman Dental Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center. They analyzed data from nearly 18,000 children who participated in two separate major surveys that were part of the large and ongoing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Among youngsters ages 2 to 5, there were no differences in rates of tooth decay. However, among children ages 6 to 18, those who were overweight or at risk for becoming overweight had fewer cavities than kids of normal weight. A child was considered overweight if he or she was in the 95th percentile or higher, based on age and sex. Children in the 85th percentile or above were defined as at risk for becoming overweight.

The findings don’t mean being overweight protects teeth, but they do raise questions about the differences in foods eaten by overweight children compared to their normal weight peers. It also debunks the stereotype of the overweight child who binges on cavity-causing candy and sugary foods. One theory is that overweight children may actually be eating fewer cavity-causing sweets than normal weight kids and instead overeating fatty foods.

“We expected to find more oral disease in overweight children of all ages, given the similar causal factors that are generally associated with obesity and caries,” said Eastman Dental Center’s Dr. Dorota Kopycka-Kedzierawski, the lead author. “Our findings raise more questions than answers. Research to analyze both diet and lifestyle is needed to better understand the results.”
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That would make sense since a lot of anorexic kids puke after eating... and puking rots your teeth. ;)
 
Oh, not surprised, I'm overweight since several years ago but had been lightly obesity at once until some of my pounds was lost then returned to overweight.

I haven't get cavities since 2003 but it got 2 cavities after got brace removed and it was caused by brace, that where chemical on brace to make struck on teeth, I hate brace...
 
i m overweight and i never got cavities... but then I had fluoride treatment so not sure?

my two sisters who are thin and they have cavities?

TJ, my son is 8 and is slighty overweight and just now have 4 cavities. He just had flouroide treatment too. He doesnt eat much of candies? weird..
 
This doesn't surprise me. Here's what I'm thinking. There are children who are within normal weight but still are not getting all the things they need from food...in a sense some are starving from not eating proper foods OR they are eating improperly in which they are not getting the things they need from a proper diet. There are children who are overweight but they get all the proper things they need from their diets. And vice versa. My nephew is obsese but in a sense he malnourished because he does not eat proper foods. It is likely that it is not the food that is causing them to be overweight but the lack of physical exercise. So many kids nowdays opt to sit at home to watch TV or play video games rather than going outside for active play. It is not necessarily cavity-producing foods that are causing weight problems.
 
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