Supertooth and Good Food Friends
evidence based online school, home and community science based health project, helps
teachers, parents and professionals, promote and develop healthy eating and
personal tooth care skills. The project has the national brand power and
sponsorship potential of
Life Be In It, that can incorporate State and Commonwealth dental
authorities, with heart, diabetes, obesity projects etc., targeting
diet, exercise and food left on teeth after eating every meal or snack.
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.
The Supertooth logo with
website can feature prominently in meat, fish, dairy, dental, fruit and veg
sections of supermarkets that have over 10,000,000 visitors every day helping
access to the linked health projects. The web site http://supertooth.ndk.biz/red
can be upgraded and linked to other food related health projects like Eat
Well, Drink Well and Play Well as well as Go for your Life and others to unite
health projects working together to do better.
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Supertooth has easy to
make teaching aids showing how to remove plaque and trapped food from teeth.
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Brushing
removes plaque
from gum margins where few cavities occur and saliva has good
access.
- Flossing
removes plaque and trapped food from between teeth and provides access for
saliva.
- Chewing traps food between teeth and inside deep pits and fissures in grooves on
chewing surfaces, generally displacing previously trapped food. However
chewing fibre like celery string helps saliva
dilute carbohydrate like sugar in trapped food, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth where 80%
of cavities occur and the brush cannot reach. Chewing fluoride toothpaste on
one end of a foam strip before brushing, forces fluoride between teeth and inside deep pits and fissures in grooves neutralise acid,
toughen and repair demineralised tooth.
Even with fluoridation of water, tooth decay is
still the most common food related disease with the economic impact of heart
disease and diabetes. Fluoride toothpaste toughens tooth surfaces to resist
acid attack and helps remineralise demineralised tooth surfaces but like the
brush, cannot reach where food is left trapped after every meal or snack.
Brushing and flossing are inconvenient and brushing cannot
not remove trapped food between teeth and inside grooves where almost all
cavities occur. Flossing can reach between teeth but chewing reaches between
teeth and inside grooves and is convenient.
Chewing sealant foods like
cheese and nuts before eating, is a convenient 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 floss, chew and brush 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
inside grooves in chewing
surfaces
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