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By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments
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.
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By Dr Garth Pettit on November 10, 2008 | No Comments
The Author, Dr Garth PettitDr 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 EylandtOne 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.jpgThe 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.
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By Dr Garth Pettit on July 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
STOP THE ROT HOME PAGE
Questions ? Answers!
Your Questions:
· What is MouthWise
· What is MouthWise Oral Hygiene
· What is MouthWise Oral HealthCare
· What is MouthWise Education
· What is MouthPaste
· What is a MouthTreater
· How does the instruction ‘Brush Your Teeth’ cause oral diseases
· Why does the instruction ‘Treat Your Whole Mouth’ prevent oral diseases with far greater certainty
Our Answers:
· To all above questions and to many more questions are on this website
Welcome to the home of oral health.
Welcome to life without oral disease.
This website is a combined website for four websites. The four website addresses listed below have one common goal; to help you to prevent oral diseases and to help you to help children to prevent oral diseases throughout their entire lifetimes and by so doing to help all of you enjoy all the wonderful benefits that oral health will have to offer them.
· www.DrGarthPettit.com is a personal blog website of Dr Garth Pettit, Oral HealthCare Educator. Preventing oral disease in children has been, for him, a lengthy pursuit of patience, perseverence, persistence and passion. A project which has extended in time equal to that of three consecutive Olympic Games…Yes, twelve years!
· www.MouthWiseMembers.com is a membership website for MouthWise Members. A variety of resources are available to members who wish to access oral healthcare advice for themselves or provide children with oral health education and oral hygiene advice based on the MouthWise oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.
· www.StopTheRotStopTellingChildrenBrushYourTeeth.com a website associated with Dr Pettit’s book of the same name; Stop The Rot! Stop Telling Children “Brush Your Teeth” In this book Dr Pettit explains to parents, schools and teachers why it is much better to instruct children to “Treat Your Whole Mouth” to help them prevent oral diseases. The instruction “Brush Your Teeth”, he argues, has been a cause of oral diseases for the last five hundred years.
- www.MouthWiseMouths.com MouthWise Mouths are happy mouths, MouthWise Mouths are always healthy, Mouthwise Mouths are forever smiling, MouthWise Mouths feel simply sensational. MouthWise Mouths are Oral Disease prevented 24/7 thanks to MouthWise Education & MouthWise Hygiene.
We are confident that what you will learn and or teach from the information on these web pages will be instrumental in helping to achieve these goals; prevent oral diseases and maintain the mouth in a state of oral health for the rest of life.
The key success factor to preventing oral diseases, thereby achieving and maintaining a state of oral health, is the oral hygiene instruction chosen and adopted. Adopt the totally oral, oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth” and you will infinitely more than likely succeed. Continue with the tooth cleaning instruction “Brush Your Teeth” and you will much more than likely fail. It’s that simple.
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