(HealthDayNews) -- When it's hot and you want something cold to drink, do you choose a soda or some fruit juice?
If you're concerned about vitamin intake, you might go for the juice, but if you're a regular reader of Clinical Preventive Dentistry, you might change your mind and pick the soda after all, as long as it's a diet soda.
Acidic drinks cause demineralization and softening of the teeth. So the faculty of dentistry, University of Stellenbosch, Typerberg, South Africa, did a comparison test on the effects of orange juice, apple juice, Pepsi Cola, and Diet Pepsi. They used Pepsi, but they don't think there's a significant difference between that brand and other colas when it comes to dental health.
They found that orange juice and Pepsi were equally harmful to teeth, followed by apple juice. The Diet Pepsi, on the other hand, was not only the least likely to soften teeth, but also the least likely to cause cavities.
