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Supertooth online school, community and professional dental health education project, helps improve personal tooth care skills and prevent tooth decay, particularly where the brush cannot reach and food is left between teeth and inside grooves on chewing surfaces.
- Tooth decay is the most common food related disease with the economic impact of heart disease and diabetes, yet most preventable.
- Over 11 million people suffer new decay each year.
- Four-fold increase in decay between 12 and 21.
- Over 38% of Australians have untreated decay.
- 31% of Australia, rural communities and cities like Geelong don’t have fluoridation.
- Almost all cavities occur where chewing traps food between teeth and inside grooves on chewing surface, displacing previously trapped food
- Over 80% of cavities occur inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where the brush cannot reach, even though most food is trapped between teeth.
- Few cavities occur on gum margins where plaque is easy to see with red food dye and the brush, fluoride and saliva have easy access to remove food, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth
- Fluoride in water and toothpaste increase resistance to acid demineralisation.
Supertooth helps develop simple skills that help prevent food being trapped, remove trapped food and provide easy access for fluoride and saliva to neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth.
Please click here to see how food is trapped and displaced inside grooves where brushing cannot reach
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