For many families, Halloween means an evening of spooky fun, but once you get back home from trick-or-treating you’ll have a new horror to face: trying to protect your children from cavities after they just built up a stockpile of candy. This might seem difficult, but luckily your dentist can offer 5 Halloween candy tips that can help make sure those treats don’t ultimately lead to a dental emergency.

Smoking. Chewing on ice. Snacking on candy throughout the day. These are all examples of habits that many of us have that we all know can wreak havoc on our teeth. However, there are a lot of other everyday acts that hurt your teeth that many people might not know about. Let’s look at 4 of them, and what you can do to protect your pearly whites from damage.