![]() Dentists speak about families who put soda in baby bottles. And drinking the sugary soda loaded with caffeine often starts early. Kids drink the soda in school, at football games and before going to bed at night. With 50 percent more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi, Mountain Dew seems to be used as a kind of anti-depressant for children in the hills. According to dentists, one of the main culprits is Mountain Dew soda. It's a stereotype rooted in a terrible fact. Teenagers have pulled their own teeth with pliers because of tooth pain, and he's treated 2-year-olds with up to 12 cavities in their baby teeth. I really believe we have to do a better job educating." Smith says he's seen firsthand the results of neglect among these children. "Grandma had dentures, mom had dentures, it's just inevitable that I'm going to end up with dentures, is the way some of these kids feel. "It's a generational thing, I think," said Smith. Watch the story tonight on "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains" tonight at 10 p.m. For many, it's the first and only dental check-up they'll have for years. Most children dread the dentist, but those who line up outside Smith's van are often giddy with anticipation. Several days a week, he criss-crosses the curvy roads of 16 eastern Kentucky counties to offer free dental screenings and services to hundreds of students. Edwin Smith, of Barbourville, Ky., is on a mission to save the teeth of Eastern Kentucky's children.įour years ago, he invested $150,000 of his own money to build a mobile dental clinic, Kids First Dental Care, inside an 18-wheel truck. More.Dentist Gives Free Screenings, Services to Children Living in Poverty in Appalachiaĭr. And it probably doesn’t help that it’s sold in 24-ounce, 64-ounce and diabeetus sizes at the convenience stores. Dentists in Appalachia have spent a considerable amount of time treating “Mountain Dew Mouth,” excessive cavities in children and adults brought on by large amounts of soda. To be sure, there’s some validity behind the backlash against Mountain Dew. The natural foods crowd looks down their noses at the fast food drive-thru line, the latte sippers view consumers of soda as residents of Tobacco Road, and Heaven save us all from the condescension of the vegans and the wrath of their anemic fury for us wicked carnivores. I’ve noticed in recent years a sort of food snobbery developing in our popular culture. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but the sugary, high caffeine beverage is coming to be increasingly associated with tackiness by the various cultural trendsetters of our society, late night television hosts, magazine articles, etc. Somewhere along the way, Mountain Dew has gotten lumped in with potted meat and airbrushed T‑shirts as an identifier of low social status. This article comes to us from Dothan, Alabama, from the Dothan Eagle. I'm sure the Marcellus Shale drilling will make the water so much better too. And when you grow up with undrinkable water, well, what do you expect? I don't count on it, but like the old smokers used to say, something's got to kill me, and I think DP is pretty low on that list.īut, I have a really difficult time drinking water unless I'm outside doing something physical, so I drink DP instead. Even further, my addiction to Diet Pepsi, which measures in the gallons per week category even now, is supposed to be better for you. Further, I'd like to point out that I lost 20 pounds in a month simply switching to Diet Pepsi. ![]() I'd just like to note here that my addiction to Mountain Dew ended at about age 24, or when I left grad school.
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