New Oral Hygiene Instruction Set to Prevent Oral Disease in Children
Dr. Garth D Pettit is a second-time retired dentist. Instead of the golf courses he chose to follow his passion to be a full time oral healthcare educator to help children to prevent oral disease. He passionately believes he knows how to prevent oral disease in children.
Rostrevor, South Australia (PRWEB via PR
Web Direct) November 8, 2004 -- Dr. Garth D Pettit is a second-time retired
dentist. Instead of the golf courses he chose to follow his passion to be a full
time oral healthcare educator to help children to prevent oral disease. He
passionately believes he knows how to prevent oral disease in children. The
‘secret’ weapon he believes he has in his armoury to prevent oral disease in
children is his new oral hygiene instruction ‘Treat Your Mouth’. ‘Brush Your
Teeth’, he claims in his recently launched web blog site ‘Prevent Oral Disease
in Children’, is flawed and even contributes to oral disease in children. He
believes ‘The Colgate-Palmolive and American Dental Association October 1, 2004
Launch of ‘Save The World from Cavities’ Campaign to Prevent Tooth Decay in
Children’ will also fail in it’s objective if it too has been based on the oral
hygiene instruction ‘Brush Your Teeth’.
From 1997 to 2002 Dr Pettit was
responsible for the annual screening (recording decayed, missing and filled
teeth) at several remote community schools. Rampant tooth decay was the norm for
most children in all schools. One school was regularly different. In this school
there was a dramatic reduction in the incidence of children’s oral disease but
only in the children in two particular classrooms. The two teachers of these
classrooms provided their students with a wholesome breakfast each morning.
Following breakfast each student was given a tooth brush on which the teachers
placed some tooth paste. The teachers then instructed the children to ‘brush
your teeth and rinse and rinse your brush under the tap’. Then the first lesson
of the day began.
Dr Pettit recalled that Aboriginal people take
instructions literally. The children interpreted the instruction ‘brush your
teeth and rinse and rinse your brush under the tap’ as meaning two, not three,
instructions; first ‘brush your teeth’, next ‘and rinse and rinse your brush
under the tap’. Children did not ‘brush your teeth’, then ‘and rinse (your
mouth)’, then ‘and rinse your brush under the tap’. By not rinsing their mouths
they left a coating of toothpaste ingredients on every surface in their mouths.
The ingredients in the toothpaste were doing as intended; killing bacteria,
preventing decay, preventing gum disease and bad breath. Had they rinsed their
mouths with water, the dramatic reduction in their oral diseases would not have
occurred.
Dr Pettit concluded the oral hygiene instruction ‘Brush Your
Teeth’ was flawed and could be a cause of oral disease and there was need for a
new oral hygiene instruction for children to prevent oral disease. He created
the following oral hygiene instruction and named it ‘Treat Your Mouth”:
• Firstly, treat surfaces of teeth, then gums, then
tongue, to clean away plaque and debris. Then thoroughly rinse the mouth with
water. Then spit out the debris.
• Secondly, treat all
surfaces a second time to apply the paste. Then swish the foam thoroughly around
the mouth. Then spit out excess foam. NOTE: no rinsing with
water.
• Finally, rinse the bristles under the
tap.
Dr Pettit believes the terms ‘tooth brush’ and ‘tooth paste’, should
be banished along with “Brush Your Teeth”. Throughout the extensive array of
MouthWise oral healthcare education resources developed by Dr Pettit for
children, their parents and their teachers, Dr Pettit’ main educational theme is
to instruct children to “Treat Your Mouth” with a mouth treater and mouth paste
to prevent oral disease.
Dr Pettit believes the current children’s oral
disease crisis in countries across the world will not be resolved so long as
children continue to be instructed to ‘Brush Your Teeth’ to prevent oral
disease. The oral hygiene instruction ‘Brush Your Teeth’ is flawed and probably
contributes to the incidence of oral diseases in children. The new children’s
oral hygiene instruction is based on the result of 5 years of observations that
revealed dramatic reductions in the incidence of children’s oral disease. The
ideal oral hygiene instruction to give children is ‘Treat Your Mouth’ with mouth
paste and a mouth treater to prevent oral disease.
Details on product
availability:
MouthWise Oral Health Resources:
• The
oral health website where all MouthWise Oral Health resources can be viewed and
purchases made at www.oralhealthhelpsite.com
• The
MouthWise oral health information website 4 Your Smile 2 Shine at www.oralhealthcare.info
• The kids oral health website All About A Smile where
children can learn the oral health song ‘4 Your Smile 2 Shine’, the song lyrics
of which are the oral hygiene instruction ‘Treat Your Mouth’, at www.allaboutasmile.com
• Book previews of the ten MouthWise oral healthcare books
for children at www.oralhealthhelpsite.com/site/708332/page/394498
• Track information of the MouthWise Oral Health C.D. at
www.oralhealthhelpsite.com/site/708332/product/ISBN-1-920712-12-7
• ‘The MouthWise Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web’ for
children’s parents, teachers and anyone teaching children oral health or oral
healthcare. Great also for older children in the 5 to 11 years old bracket to
teach themselves. www.oralhealthhelpsite.com/site/708332/page/260688 and
‘Lesson Guidelines’ for ‘The MouthWise Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web’
at www.oralhealthhelpsite.com/site/708332/page/292398
About
4 Your Smile 2 Shine Pty. Ltd.:
4 Your Smile 2 Shine is a 4 year old, sole
owner company run by a retired dentist. The company‘s focus is on the production
and distribution of oral healthcare education products. Oral healthcare
education products that children can use on their own or that parents and
teachers can use as teaching resources. The company’s mission is to banish
easily preventable oral disease in children.
Contact
Information:
Garth Pettit
4 Your Smile 2 Shine Pty Ltd
Tel: 618 8165
2144
Fax: 618 8165 2155
http://www.oralhealthcare.info
http://www.oralhealthhelpsite.com
http://www.allaboutasmile.com
http://www.prevent-oral-disease-in-children.blogspot.com
Views expressed in these statements are intended as best advice by the
author and in no way are a guarantee for any specific result.
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