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Recent health reform reports like ‘A healthier future for all Australians’ (item 86) all recommend that Government should finance evidence based improvement of Oral Health Promotion, particlarly Tooth Decay, our most common disease affecting every family including 11 million Australians per year. Evidence indicates the most susceptible tooth surfaces are where food is trapped while eating and brushing cannot reach.
Over 80% of cavities occur inside pits and fissures on chewing surfaces where brushing cannot reach food left trapped after every meal or snack and saliva or fluoride have no access to neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth.
Fissure sealants applied over grooves in chewing surfaces of back teeth block food being trapped and halt the decay process and could be effective prophylactic treatment if cheaper.
The bottom photo of sealant forced deep inside pits and fissures under chewing pressure and then the tooth was dissolved in acid, shows that chewing forces food to displace previously trapped meals or snacks have been denatured over a few hours.
Supertooth has developed a glass model of a fissure that shows that chewing pressure can force fissure sealants and toothpaste or food inside pits and fissures displacing previously trapped denatured food and brushing cannot reach.
Click Here to watch the YouTube video
1. Floss or remove food from between teeth for better fluoride access.
2. Chew toothpaste on one end of a foam strip or soft rubber to force fluoride between teeth and inside grooves on chewing surfaces where brusing cannot reach.
3.Chew fibre like celery or sugarless gum after eating to help saliva neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth.
Avoid eating acid forming food like sugar as a snack or just before meals.
Chew carbohydrate free food just before eating to prevent meals or snacks being trapped deep inside pits and fissures where carbohydrate is changed to acid demineralisation of tooth where saliva has no access to neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth and brushing cannot deliver fluoride toothpaste as seen in the experiment with the glass model of a fissure. Also on YouTube.
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