Exogenous Factors:

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• Exogenous Factors
• Diet and other personal habits constitutes other
  factors in maintaining oral health.
• food with high concentration of refined sugar (
  sucrose ) are strongly cariogenic .
• Sucrose is converted by bacterial plaque into
  acids which attack , dissolve ,and solubilize
  the calcium salt found in tooth structure.
• Fermentable carbohydrates such as fructose found
  in fruits and lactose found in milk are also
  cariogenic but to a less extent than sucrose .