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Supertooth and the Good Food Friends evidence based online school, home and community science based project, helps teachers, parents and professionals, promote and develop healthy eating and personal tooth care skills. The project has national brand power and sponsorship potential, and can also involve  Australia.

1. Brushing removes plaque from gum margins where few cavities occur and saliva has good access.
2. Flossing removes plaque and trapped food from between teeth and provides access for saliva.
3. Chewing helps saliva dilute sugar in food trapped inside deep pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth where 80% of cavities occur and the brush cannot reach.

Even with fluoride tooth decay is still the most common food related disease with the economic impact of heart disease and diabetes. Current oral hygiene skills, brushing and flossing are inconvenient, need to improve with chewing skills.

After every meal or snack, food trapped is left between teeth and inside deep pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where almost all cavities occur and the brush, toothpaste, mouthwash and chewing gum cannot reach.

This trapped food is the source of carbohydrate that resident plaque bacteria change to acid, which demineralises a small amount of tooth, eventually developing cavities. In round figures, one cavity develops in the average deciduous dentition by the age of 6 and another in the permanent dentition by the age of 12, and increases four fold by age 21.

Chewing sealant foods like cheese and nuts before eating, is a more natural and easy personal tooth care method of preventing food being trapped and changed to acid while eating. Research has developed a new more convenient sealant type sugarless confection,  to chew before eating to help prevent food being trapped and changed to acid and even remove trapped food after eating.

Chewing fibre foods after eating like celery string or new Brush/floss'n'chew foam strip gum can help saliva remove trapped food, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth so no food is left trapped on teeth after eating to cause cavities.
See the glass model of a fissure that replicates how food is trapped and removed at grooves in chewing surfaces

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