User:Supertooth
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Supertooth and good food friends helps Government education and health authorities work together with industry to develop new better evidence based technology for the oral hygiene industry and dental health education to prevent tooth decay around the world.
Even with the great benefits of fluoridation, tooth decay is still the most common and expensive yet easily preventable disease, with the economic impact of heart disease and diabetes. There is great need of better evidence based dental health education like Supertooth and Good Food Friends that has teaching aids and simple experiments to develop convenient, innovative effective, evidence based tooth care products and skills.
Everyone has experienced food trapped between teeth, displacing previously trapped food. However few realise that food left on teeth is the source of all tooth decay.
Over 80% of cavities occur inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where the food left trapped after eating is far less than that trapped between teeth and the brush toothpaste and saliva have no access to remove food, neutralise acid or remineralise demineralised tooth.
Few cavities occur on smooth tongue, cheek and lip surfaces where saliva etc, has easy access.
A simple glass model of a tooth from the Supertooth project show how chewing traps food on teeth displacing previously trapped food and how this can help industry develop new innovative more convenient oral hygiene products, and schools teach better more convenient personal toothcare habits which are more effective and hygienic than the current toothbrush etc.
The glass model shows how chewing noncariogenic foods like nuts before eating helps prevent food being trapped and changed to acid while eating.
Chewing special formulations, better and more convenient than nuts, helps displace trapped food, neutralise acid and reduce demineralisation after eating.
Chewing fibre like celery after eating helps saliva dilute-trapped sugar, neutralise acid and repair demineralised tooth.
These can been developed into more effective products that can be sold for convenient use before and after eating in schools, fast food outlets and confectioners as well as traditional supermarkets and chemists greatly increasing market potential as well as better tooth care.
Supertooth and Good Food Friends on line better dental health education has other teaching aids that are designed for schools to greatly reduce government dental health expenditure especially in those communities with no access to fluoridation.
To get some idea of Supertooth, log on to www.supertoothndk.og and register to participate in annual surveys even for schools and dentists. Ask health educators, others and your friends to do the same and provide feedback so Supertooth can improve delivery of better evidence based dental health education.
Supertooth (talk) 07:03, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
