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

Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 26 May 2007

Dentist, Dr Garth Pettit Campaigns Again to Not Advise Children ‘Brush Your Teeth;’ Dr. Pettit Seeks Campaign Publicity Through The Next Internet Millionaire Contest

Dr Pettit has persistently pursued, in a 6 year long battle against authorities of Dental Profession and Education Departments, banishing the oral hygiene instruction “Brush Your Teeth” and replacing it with “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.

Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia (PRWEB) May 26, 2007 — Dr Pettit has persistently pursued, in a 6 year long battle against authorities of Dental Profession and Education Departments, banishing the oral hygiene instruction “Brush Your Teeth” and replacing it with “Treat Your Whole Mouth”. (more…)

What Readers Say About STOP THE ROT Stop Telling Children “Brush Your Teeth”

What readers say about ‘Stop The Rot! Stop Telling Children Brush Your Teeth’……

Reading this outstanding book taught me how to ‘treat my whole mouth’ which I should have done since I received my first toothbrush. It teaches you so many lessons that everyone should learn. Dr Garth Pettit showed me in person how to do this and reading this book is even better!!

QLD Griffith University Student, Thea J. de Leon

I am the mother of two children aged 11 and 14 years. When I started reading this book, initially I was horrified. Do not tell my children to brush their teeth?

 After I read this book I was totally awed. Wow this book is amazing. It made me realize that go brush your teeth doesn’t mean anything. Education is the key. This book makes you open your eyes and realize that there is more to oral health care. I hope now after reading this book I can now educate my children and then they can educate their children. I now know that oral health care is more than just brushing your teeth. This book is fantastic and a wonderful insight into looking after my teeth and my children’s teeth and my grand children’s teeth.

 Lisa Dawes, Mother of 2 children.

The quotations above have been taken from the Back Cover of the book titled: STOP THE ROT Stop Telling Children “Brush Your Teeth”.

Dentist Dr Garth Pettit’s New Campaign, “Sensational Smiles Petition”, to Prevent Oral Disease in Children is Detailed in Book, SENSATIONAL SMILES, to be Released on 1^st May 2008.

Author, Dentist Dr Pettit hopes for end to 7 year long battle with authorities of Dental Professions and Education Departments to banish the 500 + year old tooth cleaning instruction “Brush Your Teeth” and to replace it with his 21^st Century oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.

Dr Pettit’s latest campaign the “Sensational Smiles Petition”, announced in book titled SENSATIONAL SMILES, subtitled SIMPLE ADVICE 4 YOUR SMILE 2 SHINE FROM TEENAGE TO OLD AGE with release date 1 May 2008, will be conducted at his MouthWiseLife.com site. (more…)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Australian Dentist advocates change from “Brush Your Teeth” to “Treat Your Whole Mouth

New York , N.Y. —May 2008

Oral health education traditionally relies on the old adage “brush your teeth” to maintain good oral health. Oral health educator Dr. Garth Pettit says that by raising children to just brush their teeth has not yet proved to eliminate preventable oral diseases. He maintains that it’s this instruction that has created the high demand for dental services whereas if people were taught from an early age to care for their entire mouth there would be less need for those dreaded visits.

For more than fifteen years, Dr. Pettit has advocated new oral hygiene instruction for children that involves a fully comprehensive program for treating the whole mouth. Instructions for brushing your teeth have been around since the 15^th century yet there has been to prove that brushing alone can completely eliminate easily preventable oral diseases.

Based on his research, Dr. Pettit has created what he calls Mouthwise ^™ Oral Hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth” to help everyone become self-motivated to prevent oral diseases. Sensational Smiles: Simple Advice 4 Your Smile 2 Shine From Teenage to Old Age is filled with pithy quotes, photos, and easy-to-understand information about caring for your mouth. He gives detailed instruction on how to correctly use toothpaste to clean your mouth and also offers up the latest facts on fluoride, mouthwash, flossing and electric toothbrushes along with essential data about the effects of certain foods and sugar on your smile.

Dr. Garth Pettit was raised and educated in South Australia. He was in private dental practice in Australia and the UK before retiring. Since his retirment he has been tirelessly researching oral healthcare. He has discovered the shocking lack of updated educational resources available in treating preventable oral diseases, particularly pertaining to children and teenagers. He continues to advocate better mouthcare for people of every age. For more information go to: http://www.mouthwiselife.com/

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Chinese Emperor Invents Tooth Brush

To The Chinese Emperor Who Patented, on 26 June 1498, The World’s First Tooth Brush Made With Bristles and the bristles set at right angles to the handle…..

Dear Chinese Emperor, 

A HAPPY, HAPPY Anniversary Emperor to You Emperor and to Your Wonderful Toothbrush Invention.

Hello Emperor, my name is Dr Garth Pettit, I am dentist and specialize in oral healthcare education. You will be very happy to know that your invention is still going along strongly in 2008, but with minor changes….your bristles were from a hog’s neck whereas now bristles are a synthetic named nylon….and your handle was either bone or bamboo whereas now handles are synthetic plastic. (more…)

Two Revolutions Will Start on Thursday 1 May 2008

Thursday 1 May 2008 is book release date for:

SENSATIONAL SMILES

SIMPLE ADVICE 4 YOUR SMILE 2 SHINE

FROM TEENAGE TO OLD AGE

ISBN: 978-1-60037-282-7

AUTHOR: Dr Garth Pettit

PUBLISHER: Morgan James Publishing, New York

DISTRIBUTOR: Ingram Publishing Services

WORLWIDE INTERNET DISTRIBUTORS: Amazon

REVOLUTION # 1. The Death Knell For The 500+ Years Old, Past-It’s-Use-By-Date, Instruction “Brush Your Teeth”

The simple advice in SENSATIONAL SMILES will revolutionize the way everyone thinks about their oral hygiene and have everyone wondering…..why didn’t someone tell me this before?

The advice IS simple. So simple, that everyone I tell reacts with…that makes sense…that’s so logical….I never thought of it like that before…. why didn’t someone tell me this before?

SIMPLE? Yes very simple….It’s simply HOW to use bristles and HOW to use paste to achieve TOTAL ORAL HYGIENE. Just simple things you will never have been told of before. I wonder why?

TOTAL ORAL HYGIENE is the only way you will ever prevent the easily preventable oral diseases such as; tooth decay, gum diseases, bad breath and stained teeth.

The advice given in SENSATIONAL SMILES is never follow the 500+ year old tooth cleaning instruction “Brush Your Teeth”, for total oral hygiene follow my advice and “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.

REVOLUTION # 2. Mandatory Oral HealthCare Education for Children Based on “Treat Your Whole Mouth”

The “Sensational Smiles Petition” announced in SENSATIONAL SMILES is a petition to gather support for, as the petition reads, “Oral Health Education Based on “Treat Your Whole Mouth”, Not Based on ‘Brush Your Teeth’ Should be Mandatory For All Children”.

I am convinced that readers of SENSATIONAL SMILES , after switching to “Treat Your Whole Mouth”, will be as enthusiastic and passionate as I am about helping children to prevent easily preventable oral diseases ….to enjoy oral health, with all it’s benefits, for life.

Dr Garth Pettit BDS GDM

Oral HealthCare Educator

Author of MouthWise Oral HealthCare Education Resources.

The Author, Dr Garth Pettit

Dr Pettit, Author of The MouthWise

Oral HealthCare Education Resources

Introduction

Fifty years first hand experience in general dental practice and the recent 12 year long total focus on preventing oral disease in children are my qualifications for being the author of the MouthWise Oral HealthCare Education Resources.

The first resource to be published was self-published in 2002; The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2, also known as Visits 1 to 10 to GarGar The Dentist. A second resource was published by Morgan James Publishing, New York, in May 2008; SENSATIONAL SMILES Simple Advice 4 Your Smile 2 Shine From Teen Age to Old Age. Another publication by Morgan James Publishing, New York, is scheduled for release in mid-November 2008; STOP THE ROT Stop Telling Children Brush Your Teeth. There are more MouthWise Oral HealthCare education resources scheduled for publication.

The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2 is the text book for the oral healthcare education program, The MouthWise Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web. The emphasis throughout the MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2 is to firstly, self-motivate children to PREVENT oral disease, to MAINTAIN oral health, to RETAIN their teeth white, to PRESERVE their smiles for life and to AVOID expensive dentistry. Secondly, to make children aware that preventing oral disease requires continual, active vigilance to make their lives all about a smile.

 

The Demand for Repairing Oral Diseases

 

My name is Garth Pettit. During my undergraduate years at the University of Adelaide in South Australia I became fascinated with the perfect dentitions of Australian Aboriginal people who had maintained their natural diets. Their smiles were all about a smile. I was at the same time saddened by the detrimental affects on the mouths of those who succumbed to European diets. I graduated in December 1953. Subsequently, like most dentists, most of my time in private general practice was spent keeping pace with the demand for repairing oral disease. Too little time was available for oral health education. Neither were there in existence oral health manuals to recommend to parents. To make available something like The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2 had been at the back of my mind for many years.

 

My Concern for Children’s Oral Health Education

December 1992. My concern for oral health manuals for children’s oral health education got the better of me. I came out of retirement in February 1997 taking up a Government post, responsible for the oral health needs and education of children and communities in the remote areas of East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. It was during this period, working with teachers, parents and schools that I developed the education resource materials for this oral healthcare education program. I really desperately wanted to help children to avoid oral disease, to enjoy and benefit from oral health and to PRESERVE their white teeth and smiles for their lifetimes. I wanted to help children know all about a smile. The first of the oral health manuals, MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2, was written there.

P.S. You may find the following two sentences of interest:

· Tooth decay, gum disease and bad breath are regularly quoted as being ‘easily preventable oral diseases’. Let me correct that. Tooth decay, gum disease and bad breath are easily ‘self preventable oral diseases’. They are and here you will find out ‘how’! But have you ever wondered why they are prevalent, even now?

· Likewise, plaque build up on teeth gums and tongue, stained teeth and enamel discolouration are regularly quoted as needing ‘visit your dentist regularly’ or ‘tooth whitening’. Let me correct that. Plaque build up on teeth gums and tongue, stained teeth and enamel discolouration are easily ‘self preventable oral diseases’. They are oral diseases. They are not normal. They are easily preventable and here you find out ‘how’! But have you ever wondered why you have not been told, ‘how’ easily?

 

 

 

Alyangula, Groote Eylandt

One Particularly Important Observation

There is one particularly important observation I made (in the actual library pictured below) each year during this period that I wish to make you aware of and which caused me to re-write much of which I had already then written. Each year in each school the children in each class were subjected to a screening for decayed, missing and filled teeth etc. In one of the communities the two teachers responsible for 6 to 8 year old children had a ‘breakfast regime’ consisting of healthy food and drink followed by an instruction to ‘Brush Your Teeth and rinse and rinse your brush under the tap’.

 

As with Aboriginal language the children interpreted this instruction literally. So they were ‘brushing their teeth’, not rinsing their mouths (they were not told to do that), then ‘ rinsing and rinsing their brush under the tap’. The result was quite remarkable. Their incidence of arrested decay rose dramatically and their incidence of new dental decay fell to virtually zero. WHY? Because by not rinsing their mouths they were leaving toothpaste in their mouths and the ingredients in the toothpaste, especially the fluoride, was causing this dramatic, beneficial effect. Children in classes below them, with no breakfast regime, exhibited the usual high rates of decay. Children in classes above them, with no breakfast regime, exhibited dramatically increasing rates of decay. I pondered for weeks creating the new and superior oral hygiene instruction, ‘Treat Your Mouth’.

 

Library, Numbulwar CEC School.jpg

The MouthWise Oral HealthCare

School-on-the-Web

Being responsible for an area of very scattered, remote communities it soon became obvious that a web-based oral health education program would solve any difficulties of accessibility. And why not make it accessible to anyone, anywhere, any time? So was born the idea of “The MouthWise™ Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web” and The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Manual 2.

Travelling East Arnhemland