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According to a recent survey from KidsHealth, most kids will spend the next two weeks to more than a month grazing on Halloween candy.

So to keep their oral health from losing, some area dentists are taking part in a candy "buyback program," in partnership with ZocDoc.com, a company that helps you book local doctor appointments online.

For every pound of candy the kids turn in now through this Friday, they get paid a dollar.

Two-year-old Veronica Agudelo's loot weighed in at $2 toward her piggy bank.

"I think it is a great idea," said Agudelo's mom Leah Ramella. "My daughter is only two and I definitely don't want her eating two pounds of candy. Even if it is doled out over a period of time, it is a lot of candy. It is a lot of sugar. It's bad for her teeth, and the buyback was great because she was so happy to get $2."

On the first day of the buyback, more than 20 pounds were already collected at Dr. Daniell Mishaan's Midtown office. The goal is to collect more than a ton of candy from about 11 dentists' offices across the city, tallying up to more than 500,000 grams of sugar kids might otherwise consume.

"The issue is that candy is such that it sticks to the teeth. And it sticks in the grooves and the molars," explained Mishaan. "And if it sits there, a kid has it, he's in school, he doesn't brush his teeth for six hours, he doesn't drink water. It just sits and causes cavities; it's a major, major problem."

Now you probably won't develop a mouthful of cavities from just one Halloween haul, but Dr. Mishaan says the buyback is a great way of getting kids and families to talk about oral hygiene.

"You can have a lot of problems. You see children walking in, who need root canals on teeth that have been in their mouth for two years," said the dentist. "But the issue is so much larger. In America we have a huge amount of children with diabetes; the obesity issue in young kids is tremendous. Kids just need to know about overall health."

So given today's economy, is a dollar per pound of candy a good deal?

"We did our market research and nine out of 10 three year olds really like dollars," sad ZocDoc.com founder Cyrus Massoumi. "So we figured that was the best market price and they were willing to sell at that."

Not to mention the savings on dental bills.