The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
what's unique about xylitol is that very much like standard sugar or any kind of carbohydrate sugar the bacteria streptococus mutans loves to eat Xylitol but when streptococus mutans eats Xylitol it doesn't meaning it cannot produce the acid that normally would demineralize the teeth and create cavities
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in addition to that when streptococus mutans eats Xylitol it kills streptococus mutans so what this means is that if xylol is present in the oral cavity after a meal say in the minutes and hours after a meal then any strep mutans that happens to be there is going to preferentially feed on the Xylitol not other sugars and it won't be able to release acid and because Xylitol can actually inhibit the growth and that is the proliferation of more strep mutans