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Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 9 November 2004
By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments
New Oral Hygiene Instruction Treat Your Mouth” Predicted to Prevent Oral Disease in Children. ‘Brush Your Teeth” Contributes to Oral Disease and Should be Banished.
Dr Pettit believes the ideal oral hygiene instruction to give children to prevent oral disease is ‘Treat Your Mouth with mouth paste and a mouth treater. Treat Your Mouth” was created following 5 years observing children misinterpreting an oral hygiene instruction but dramatically preventing oral disease. ‘Treat Your Mouth” will prevent oral disease in all age groups, not just childrens. Dr Pettit believes the current childrens oral disease crisis in countries across the world will not be resolved if children continue to be instructed to ‘Brush Your Teeth to prevent oral disease. ‘Brush Your Teeth is a flawed oral hygiene instruction and contributes to oral disease in children and in adults. (more…)
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Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 8 November 2004By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments
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) 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 its 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 childrens 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. (more…)
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