Diwali rightly called the festival of lights is also the festival of sweets. In the process of decorating our houses to our best to impress goddess Laxmi, we end up ignoring our teeth. Sweets that we savor in excess on this festival acts as a food for the bacteria to grow. While some microbes are inevitable and even beneficial for our oral cavity, tooth decay and diseases may arise if there is an unchecked growth of bacteria