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What Happens To Food That Is Trapped while chewing every meal or snack.

The modern diet contains a significant amount of fementable carbohydrate which is changed to acid where food is left trapped after eating every meal or snack. Trapped food between teeth and inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces can be removed by chewing fibre after eating but the brush, toothpaste, mouthwash, chewing gum and saliva cannot reach.

Even after 30 years of fluoride, oral hygiene, fissure sealants and avoiding sweets etc., all important preventive measures promoted by dentists, government health authorities and many commercial interests like Colgate, tooth decay has only been halved. In 2004, the Australian toothbrush market was  $95 million, toothpaste was $209.5 and chewing gum was $104 million, yet $1,510.2million of confection and other foods were left trapped on teeth after eating.

Few cavities occur at gum margins even though toothbrushes, skills and cleaning habits vary greatly because saliva usually has good access after eating to dilute sugars, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth.

Fillings and fissure sealant treatment have been shown to prevent food being trapped and greatly reduce decay.

Supertooth and the Good Food Friends has been designed with science based tools that shows plaque on teeth and compares methods of removing plaque. The project can teach and develop easy, convenient and effective skills to seal teeth before eating and help saliva remove trapped food, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth after eating every meal or snack.

Chewing Barium Sulphate with suitable fibre before bitewing x-rays shows where food is trapped and that it is hard for chewing most foods to replace the barium sulphate showing that chewing can help prevent food being trapped and changed to acid.

Please tell your friends and associates about Supertooth and keep comming back for the latest news like how a simple Glass Model of a groove, helps see how chewing traps food, how some foods prevent other foods being trapped and how chewing suitable fibre can help remove trapped food.

Enjoy the offering and remember it is the food left trapped between teeth and inside grooves that causes almost all cavities.