Vegetarians and especially Vegans do need to make sure they're getting enough Vitamin B-12 - Vitamin B-2 - Vitamin D - and Calcium - in their diet to ward off tooth decay, and gum problems. These are easy enough too get through supplementation or correct food choices & sunshine (Vitamin D).
On the flip-side their is a positive note too teeth & gum health from a veg diet. See below:
{The traditional belief and recent interest in 'natural food' suggests that fruits and vegetable make a positive contribution in dental health by inhibiting caries and increasing the resistance of the periodontal tissues.
Human dentition is better suited for vegetarian diet. Broad surface molars are specially suited to chew coarse fibrous food.
Most vegetarian foods have a cleansing action. A few gargles after a meal may be enough to clean the mouth. However, if some fibrous particle remains in between the teeth (inter dental space) unlike meat fibres, they do not ferment or traumatize the tissue. Thus brushing morning and night may be enough to prevent dental problems.
Vegetables and fruits are a very healthy source of natural vitamins like vitamin C and other minerals.
Salivary pH does not change fast and therefore vegetarian food does not decompose. Salivary pH has an important role to play in oral health. Most dairy products like milk, butter, and vegetable oil keep saliva almost neutral. Most vegetables, dry fruits, apples, grapes and bananas may keep saliva slightly alkaline. Meat, sea food and chicken are acid forming foods. Acidic saliva normally helps causing dental decay.
Hence, it appears that evidence is strongly in favor of a vegetarian diet. There seems to be no doubt that the incidence of dental problems is less in a vegetarian population.}
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