Everybody LOVES Candy !!!

During Halloweeen season shelves in local stores are quickly emptied by trick-or-treaters. In many households bags of m&m's, snickers, skittles, milkyways, kit-kats and more fill a decorative halloween bowl. This bowl is used to satisfy the ghouls and goblins that walk the street on hallow's eve. However, those sticky lolipops and hard gumballs can get one's teeth in trouble. In a recent newspaper article the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) recommend both children and adults who wear braces to avoid candies that are "sticky, chewy, hard or crunchy." Doesn't that sound like every candy ever made? Well almost but not quite all. Plain chocolate candy is okay as long as the consumers brush and floss afterwards. However, bobbing for apples or eating those delicious caramel apples is not suitable. Patients can have thinly sliced apple pieces and can add flavor by dipping them in yogurt or creamy chocolate sauce. Yum! So for all those trick-or-treaters out there . . . BEWARE OF THE CANDY!