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Experiments

The teaching aids help develop tooth care skills that are convenient at any time anywhere to help remove trapped food after eating and can improve access for fluoride toothpaste and saliva to neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth. Also to compare with the tooth brushing, flossing and chewing gum, but the web site needs to be updated into modules for school teachers, even dental professionals.

The glass model also shows how a red jelly confection is forced inside grooves and that brushing cannot remove the confection or force the toothpaste inside the groove. Simulate chewing toothpaste on one end of a a foam strip can be seen to force the toothpaste inside the glass mode in one stroke. This indicates that chewing toothpaste on one end of a a foam strip couple of times on one side of the mouth before brushing forces toothpaste inside pits and fissures where brushing cannot reach so the saliva fluoride mix helps displace trapped food, neutralise acid, toughen and repair demineralised tooth. Repeat on the other side, spit out but do not wash out after brushing each side.

Chewing toothpaste formulae in tablet form before eating seals pits and fissures and blocks food from being trapped while eating.

Chewing the tablets after eating helps remove any food that is trapped while eating. Chewing the convenient tablet with the convenient foam strip is much more efficient.

Chewing Barium Sulphate before bitewing x-rays appears white where food is trapped inside grooves. The barium sulphate is difficult to remove indicating that  chewy sealants can be developed to prevent food being trapped and changed to acid.