There's some "pilot project" going on in our town where all the elementary school kids (my daughter included) had their teeth checked by a dentist and now they get two xylitol lozenges in the morning and after lunch.

Then they're going to check them again periodically over the next couple years.

I hadn't heard anything about xylitol until I was handed the page I needed to sign. Then I looked it up.

I switched to xylitol in my coffee and I chew xylitol gum after lunch every day.

I like it. It's much subtler than sugar.

They had me at "It was developed in Finland."