We conducted a 14-day “egg experiment” at Relaxation Dentistry for Children’s Dental Health Month. Typically, I would experiment in a grade school classroom so that children can see how various beverages affect their teeth’ enamel. In this experiment, the eggshell represents tooth enamel. This year, I decided to experiment with the office so our patients could see the results. We used eight eggs and chose the following beverages: Monster, Lemonade, Coca-Cola, Fanta, Gatorade, Coffee, Red Bull, and Mountain Dew. The pictures represented here were taken after soaking the eggs for 14 days. We were surprised by the following results:
Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew, and Fanta didn’t seem to
affect the egg at all, even though these beverages are
It’s more acidic than Monster or Red Bull.
The Coca-Cola egg was darkerly stained than the Black Coffee egg.
Just use Fanta if you want to color your Easter eggs this year!
You might want to avoid Fanta unless you like the look of orange teeth.
If you want to prevent cavities, I’d also recommend avoiding Monster, Red Bull, Gatorade, and Lemonade.
