Instruction Brush Your

Teeth

Causes Stained Teeth

DATING THE INSTRUCTION “BRUSH YOUR TEETH”

The  instruction “Brush Your Teeth” has been a cause of the easily preventable oral diseases such as tooth decay, gum disease, bad breath and stained teeth since the year 1498, the year a Chinese Emperor invented the first manufactured tooth cleaning implement which he named  ‘tooth brush’.

At that point of time tooth paste had not been invented.

Assuming the proposed purpose of inventing a ‘tooth brush’ was to brush your teeth with a tooth brush I also assume the instruction would have been “Brush Your Teeth”……. with a tooth brush.

I therefore claim the instruction “Brush Your Teeth” has been an instruction since at least 1498.

HISTORY OF TOOTH CLEANING PRIOR TO 1498

For many centuries, at least for more than the five most recent centuries, an implement referred to as a ‘chew stick’ was, and in some counties remains to be, a popular device used to clean enamel surfaces of teeth.

The chew stick was not a manufactured implement in the sense of manufactured as we have know in recent Centuries. A chew stick is created very simply by breaking off from a live tree a section of a twig no thicker than a finger and about the length of our current tooth brush. Foliage was then stripped from along the length of the twig then one end was chewed. TO FRAY IT! Very simple and even now worth knowing if you are lost in a wilderness and wish to clean your teeth.

A chew stick or fingers were used in conjunction with water, if available, and salt or sand or dirt to clean the surfaces of teeth.

Teeth surfaces were also cleaned with pieces of charcoal.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1498

TOOTH BRUSH

1880.        Dr Scott marketed an Electric Toothbrush he claimed was permanently charged with electro-magnetic current.

1938.        Dupont developed a tooth brush with nylon bristles.

Post W.W.11   The first ‘real’ electric toothbrush was invented in Switzerland.

TOOTH PASTE

1755.        Word’s first toothpaste invented by Dr Julien Botot for Louis XV of France

MOUTHWASH

1755.        Word’s first mouthwash invented by Dr Julien Botot for Louis XV of France

DENTAL FLOSS

Dental floss is an ancient invention. Researchers have found dental floss and tooth pick grooves in the teeth of prehistoric human remains.

1815.        Levi Spear Parmly, a New Orleans dentist is credited as being the inventor of modern dental floss. Silk thread!

BUT “BRUSH YOUR TEETH” HAS NOT CHANGED

It is nothing less than AMAZING that the tooth-only-cleaning instruction, “Brush Your Teeth” has remained, virtually un-changed since 1498.

Doesn’t that ring alarm bells in your mind?

1498! “Brush Your Teeth”

Can you imagine the level of hygiene knowledge that existed then?

2001! “Brush Your Teeth”

Can you imagine how much better is our knowledge of hygiene is now?

2001!

Imagine no longer, the change has been made.

“The Perfect Oral Hygiene Instruction”

“TREAT YOUR WHOLE MOUTH”

DEFINING ORAL HYGIENE

Oral means the mouth or the oral cavity.

Hygiene means cleanliness as a means of preventing disease.

Therefore, by definition, oral hygiene is cleanliness of the mouth (or of the oral cavity) as a means of preventing disease.

The oral cavity has many more surfaces in it besides the surfaces of teeth and ALL surfaces get dirty when eating and or drinking.

Therefore oral hygiene is cleanliness of all oral surfaces as a means of preventing oral disease.

THE INSTRUCTION “BRUSH YOUR TEETH”

The instruction “Brush Your Teeth” has two major flaws.

MAJOR FLAW # 1:

Brush Your Teeth instructs you to clean surfaces of teeth. NOTHING ELSE! Therefore several surfaces in the mouth are left dirty and this dirt, with help from saliva and muscular movements, will spread back onto surfaces that have been cleaned! Not good hygiene!

MAJOR FLAW # 2:

Brush Your Teeth is almost always followed by the implied, unspoken and un-written instruction….and ‘rinse your mouth’. Rinsing your mouth rids the mouth of the cleaned-off dirt and also all the ingredients in toothpaste.

Toothpaste packaging lists the ingredients present in the toothpaste and lists text and graphics which state their claims;

prevents decay, repairs decay, makes teeth stronger,  kills bacteria, prevents plaque, prevents bad breath etc.

But rinsing IS necessary to remove the undesirables.

So it’s time for a new oral hygiene instruction.

THE PERFECT ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION

The perfect oral hygiene instruction must achieve three objectives:

1. The perfect oral hygiene instruction must achieve total cleanliness of every surface in the mouth with absolutely no dirt left on any surface in the mouth.
2. The perfect oral hygiene instruction must achieve total protection for every surface in the mouth, particularly the surfaces of teeth, gums and tongue.
3. The perfect oral hygiene instruction must achieve prevention of all easily preventable oral diseases which are; tooth decay, gum disease, bad breath, stained teeth.

VOILA!      ONE PERFECT ORAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTION

“TREAT YOUR WHOLE MOUTH”

Read This Book. Learn How To “Treat Your Whole Mouth”

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MOUTHWISE ORAL HEALTHCARE

MouthWise Oral HealthCare’s instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth” does all that a perfect oral hygiene instruction sets out to achieve

• No un-cleaned mouth surfaces
• All mouth surfaces protected against oral diseases
• All oral disease prevented

FOR TEETH STAIN PREVENTION
“Treat Your Whole Mouth”

MouthWise Oral HealthCare presents

the perfect book for you to learn how to “Treat Your Whole Mouth”

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Vote for children’s oral health

The following You Tube video was an audition video I submitted for The Next Internet Millionaire contest of 2007, the brainchild of internet guru Joel Comm of adsense fame. I failed to receive enough votes to get past the end of the first stage. However it did get a lot of good, free publicity for my cause. Your rating even now will help prevent oral disease in children and would be greatly appreciated.

Comments by Dr Garth Pettit on The Video Zorba The Greek Yolgnu Style

 

MouthWise Oral HealthCare education resources had their origins when, in January 1997, I was accepted for the position of District Dental Officer, East Arnhem Land in the North-West of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Until my departure from East Arnhem Land in June 2002 I was kept happily, very busy, visiting the main, remote, greatly-scattered Aboriginal communities in that wonderful, unique part of Australia.

It was during my visit in early 2001 to the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar when I first became aware that the instruction “Brush Your Teeth” was flawed, a cause of oral diseases and needed a major overhaul. So was born my 21st Century oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.

I have many wonderful memories of East Arnhem Land and of it’s inhabitants. When Australian aboriginals live on their natural bush tucker diet they have one of the most beautiful dentitions in the world.

They are wonderful people and have a great sense of humour as you will note in this video. (more…)

I was educated at Port Lincoln Kindergarten, then Port Lincoln Primary School, then Port Lincoln High School. I attended Adelaide High School for the Leaving Honours Certificate before beginning my university career at Adelaide University, Faculty of Dentistry in 1949 and graduated as a dentist in November 1953.

Since then I have practiced dentistry in Australia, then in the U.K. then back in Australia until I retired in November 1992. Shortly before retiring I Received a Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Central Queensland subjects on economics and finance were my stumbling blocks to continue through to a Master of Business Administration.

But the most interesting years for me have been between January 1997 and coming up to the end of 2008. In these years I have been back at dentistry again for all but 2 years and 6 months. WITH A PASSIONATE PURPOSE!

Over the past 12 years I have devoted my time to creating The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Education Resources. Resources for all age groups to educate how to prevent the easily preventable oral diseases such as tooth decay, gum diseases, bad breath and stained teeth.

I do feel very passionately about condemning the 500 + year old tooth cleaning instruction as a cause of oral diseases and equally passionately about introducing the totally oral, oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”. The very first totally oral, oral hygiene instruction ever!

P.S. Wondering about the inventor? You’ll find the information here. At the time there were an estimated 10,000 million vinyl records sold every year. That was also the time when new technology was about to be introduced. Compact Discs were about to hit the market and interest in vinyl records was predicted to dwindle so the invention became a non-profit venture, however not a waste of time, money or effort because I have since then benefited personally from many valuable lessons I learned by attempting that venture. The success of my twelve year-long venture to prevent oral diseases in children will be due in no small way to applying capacities for patience, perserverence and persistence, by applying the abilty to use visionary powers to achieve goals and not the least by recognizing and applying the power of that which is morally correct when setting goals.

(WO/1983/000252) IMPROVED PERIPHERAL RIM FOR DISC RECORDS

Int. Class.8:, G11B 3/68. Applicant:, PETTIT, Garth, Derwood . Inventor:, PETTIT, Garth, Derwood . Priority Data:. PE 9672, 09.07.1981, AU … www.wipo.org/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=1983000252 – 12k – Cached – Similar pages