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”

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MOUTHWISE ORAL HEALTHCARE

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

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