The active ingredients found in a dental product will make or break it, and you can identify them via the product’s packaging label. Keep a look out for the amount of fluoride, as it is one of the most effective ingredients to protect your teeth and combat tooth sensitivity and decay. Most products will contain approximately 600 to 1,500ppm of it.
There is also increasing use of naturally occurring alcohol sugars such as Sorbitol and Xylitol to improve the taste of oral care products like toothpastes, mouthwashes and chewing gums.
As these sugars cannot be digested by bacteria to create cavity-forming by-products such as acid, using products containing them reduces your risk of developing cavities. In fact, studies have also shown that they improve saliva flow, maintain pH in the mouth and lower the “acid attacks from bacterial by-products.