Cavities

[Max the Disenchanter]

Can puberty cause cavities? Got a bunch of cavities around the same time i started puberty. Never had cavities before. I brush and floss twice a day.

[Ragle]

I can't confirm this experience. My teeth are still alright. I'm now 15 too.

[walter684]

Nope

[Hermes]

I have never heard of it before. Women can get cavities during pregnancy so maybe if your diet was deficient in calcium so there wasn't enough for your teeth and for growing bones it might be possible.

So I would check you diet. Also on the diet front make sure you are not eating lots of sugary stuff.

[mick01]

Puberty cannot cause cavities. Cavities are caused by tooth decay, mostly caused by eating sugary foods.

[House anatomy]

During puberty a large amount of growth occurs so maybe you have been hungry and eaten more sugary foods. It also depends how regularly you go to the dentist. If you go once a year your gonna have more cavities than if you go twice a year.

[Turbofan explosion]

I don't think so. I don't think puberty has anything to do with oral health (Other than the fact that you lose all the rest of your baby teeth during puberty).

[Chetz]

Maybe you should ask a dentist.

[Hermes]

...It also depends how regularly you go to the dentist. If you go once a year your gonna have more cavities than if you go twice a year.

Here, a visit to the dentist is usually a check-up and doesn't do anything directly to reduce tooth decay, other than the dentist offering advice. What can happen, though, and a benefit of going to the dentist regularly, is to discover a cavity when it is still superficial and then clean and fill it. If left until the tooth is aching there is much greater likelihood that root canal treatment will be need needed which takes much longer and also limits the future life of the tooth much more than a superficial filling.

[jamie_n5]

No puberty can't cause cavities. You need to probably get extra fluoride treatments from your dentist. It sounds like you are practicing good oral hygiene so I don't know what else to say. Do you drink a lot of sodas or eat a lot of sweets? That is not good for your teeth either.

[Falcons_11]

I agree with all here that puberty doesn't cause cavities. I learned in Hygiene that cavities are cause by eating sugary foods and soft drinks. Also good dental hygiene requires daily brushing of your teeth twice a day, morning and nightly.

[Harrier]

No correlation. Except that the older you are obviously the more fucked up your teeth are gonna be with all the sugar you have had in your life. it all adds up. At 7 years old you olnly have had so much sugar on your teeth. But at 13 years old it has had much more sugar on it.

[SethfromMI]

I don't think so. There have been a lot of good suggestions. Sometimes it is too much surgar. Sometimes lack of calcium can make teeth weaker. Some people have weaker teeth in general, even if they try to take good care of them. try to ask a dentist of extra ways to help take care of them

[scott2002]

Never had cavities before.
Did you maybe move at some time to a location where you have well water, so no fluoride-treated public water supply?

[Max the Disenchanter]

Did you maybe move at some time to a location where you have well water, so no fluoride-treated public water supply?

nope. born and raised in nyc

[NewLeafsFan]

I have never heard of any connection

[teenboyNathan]

Puberty doesn't cause cavities. Poor dental hygiene does

[Adarest]

Sugary food and not brushing your teeth well enough causes cavities, but puberty might give you adult baby teeth, that's about it. Puberty doesn't affect your health, just your body size, shape, and growth.

[baseball1]

No clue...I don't think so