I usually chew gum [sugerless] after every meal or snack to keep my teeth clean. However, I've recently I've become less comfortable with gum that has artificial sweetners in it. I use sugar-free due to it not causing [and even helping prevent] tooth decay.

My question is, if I chewed gum with sugar in it, and continued chewing it until all the flavor is out of it, would that be okay for my 'gum chewing purposes'? In other words, chew it long enough for the sugar to be gone from the gum, thus doing it's job of preventing tooth decay?

What is your thoughts?

It sounds like you are contradicting yourself. You want to cleanse your teeth by chewing gum and if you chew sugar gums you are bathing your teeth with sugar. So you are not cleansing your teeth at all. Check out this gum call TheraGum by Omni. It's more expensive than regular gum. There is another brand but I can't think of it right now. Anyways these type of gums has an ingredient that actually helps fight tooth decay. These gums has been known in Switzerland for half a century and we are just now discovering it and marketing it in the US. You can find these also at natural food store/shop.

Thanks for the advise, Toothfairy28! :)

If you must chew gum, chew sugar free gum. Tooth fairy was looking for the ingredient xylitol ( I think). Read the ingrdient list and look for this, it has been shown to reduce cavities.

Sugar = Decay, I would never chew sugared gum since finding out that sugar is the only reason we get decay, in olden times people only lost their teeth to gum disease, never decay because they had limited exposure to sugar.

Thanks Raven, that was what I was trying to think of.