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As the candy bowls linger from Halloween and holiday treats start to roll in, your teeth face a marathon of sugar exposure.

"Halloween involves a lot of candy all at once," Olga Ensz, D.M.D., M.P.H., told Fox News Digital.

A clinical associate professor and director of community-based outreach at the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Ensz describes the heart of the issue: the problem isn’t that candy suddenly becomes more dangerous; "it’s that we eat it in much larger amounts over a short period."

That rapid-fire sugar intake fuels bacteria that feast on leftover candy, producing acid that weakens enamel and paves the way for cavities.

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