Relation between medicines sweetened with sucrose and dental disease.

Diet, nutrition and the prevention of dental diseases

“…As economic levels in such societies rise, the amount of sugar and other fermentable carbohydrates in the diet increases as they shift towards habits and diets associated with modern living. Examples of this trend include populations in the Inuit in Alaska, USA 63 as well as populations in Ethiopia There is evidence to show that many groups of people with habitually high consumption of sugars also have levels of caries higher than the population average, for example, children with chronic diseases requiring longterm sugar-containing medicines 69 . Environmental exposure to high sugars has also been studied: Anaise 70 found that confectionery industry workers had 71% higher dental caries experience than factory workers from other industries.…”

Cariogenic Potential of the commonly Prescribed Pediatric Liquid Medicaments in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: An in vitro Study

“…Not only the parents but also the health care workers are unaware of the hidden sugars in PLM, which can drastically predispose an individual to an increased susceptibility for dental caries. The most conclusive evidence about the cariogenicity of liquid oral medicaments was provided by Roberts and Roberts 17 and Feigal et al 18 who showed that a continuous administration of sucrose-based medicines causes dental caries and related gingivitis. Various other studies have also confirmed that these preparations are cariogenic and acidogenic in nature.…”

Saliva buffering power in contact with some vitamin syrups available in Iranian pharmaceutical market

“…Epidemiological studies have emphasized that long-term use of pharmaceutical syrups are associated with dental caries (4)(5)(6). Researchers have also demonstrated the potentiality of erosion development and dental caries even in children taking small doses of pharmaceutical drugs (7).…”