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    A Surprising Side Effect of Giving Birth

    The curious link between motherhood and dental problems
    by Rosie Colosi Jul 28, 2021 6 minutes
    Source: Philippe Huguen / AFP / Getty ; Baumgarten / Getty

    As a mom who had just escaped the two-under-2 phase, I felt like my long-overdue trip to the dentist was a vacation: I was child-free, my feet were up, and I almost fell blissfully asleep as I waited for the perfect report I had received from every dentist I had visited in my 40 years of life.

    Then the dentist walked in and my streak was broken. I had my first cavity ever. Not to worry, he told me. “I see this happen to a lot of moms—especially moms with two kids.” I couldn’t figure out how this had happened. Nothing had changed in my dental care. Could there be something to what the dentist said? Could I somehow blame my kids for my cavity?

    My follow-up appointment came and went without fanfare, and I forgot the dentist’s theory as soon as I left his office. But then Stephanie Manganelli, the mother of two toddlers and a co-founder of , happened to mention her own less-than-stellar dentist appointment

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