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Good Food Friends Welcome to our new Supertooth and Good Food Friends Monthly Journal topic.
Why is tooth decay the most prevalent diseases in the community and second most expensive?The first ten years following wide use of fluoride saw a significant reduction in tooth decay but even with dental health education, increased government dental health spending and a $21.5 billion USD global oral hygiene market; there has been little improvement in the last 20 years.
Tooth decay the most prevalent diseases in the community and second most expensive, but preventing or reducing food left on teeth after every meal or snack offers new hope.
Almost all cavities occur where, after every meal or snack, food is left trapped between teeth and inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where the brush, toothpaste, mouthwash, chewing gum and saliva cannot reach.
Over 80% of cavities occur inside pits and fissures an can be stopped by expensive professionally applied fillings or fissure sealants that prevent food being trapped and changed to acid.
It could be assumed that chewing food displaces previously trapped food, but some trapped foods are harder to remove than others.
Chewing Barium Sulphate before bitewing xrays highlights where food is trapped and is difficult to remove, which indicates that chewing suitable foods like cheese or specially developed sealant tablet confection may prevent or reduce food that is trapped and changed to acid while eating.
Similarly chewing a suitable fibre like celery string, for a few minutes after eating, helps saliva remove trapped food, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth.
A highly efficient chewy fibre strips can be made from food safe grade plastic foam, which can be seen to remove stained plaque from gum margins like a brush, from between teeth like floss and help saliva remove food from inside a glass model of a fissure as in the Supertooth and good food friends school/community project kit seen online at http://ndk.biz/schools/glass.htm
Preventing food being trapped and changed to acid while eating and removing or reducing food left on teeth after every meal or snack is likely to see another great reduction in dental disease.
Please keep comming back the latest news like the release of a new tap range with Sowash fittings to clean teeth in your home and enjoy the offering and share Supertooth with your friends and associates because it is the food left trapped on teeth that causes almost all cavities.