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UK Against Fluoridation

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Ireland - Aching for a better public dental service

..............Most Irish children brush their teeth only once a day, although it has been shown to be much more effective if you brush twice a day, says Parnell. “When you add that to their high consumption of sweets, you have got a recipe for disaster.”

Diet is much more important than tooth brushing, stresses Casey. “If you have a high sugary diet and brush your teeth three or four times a day, you will still get tooth decay. Whereas if you don’t have any sugar in your diet and don’t brush your teeth, you probably won’t have tooth decay.”

He tries to impress on parents that it is not the amount of sugar that a patient eats, it is the frequency. “If you eat a bar of Dairy Milk it takes five minutes, and it takes five or 10 minutes to wash that saliva out of your mouth. You have sugar in your mouth for 15 minutes, no big deal.

“If you eat a packet of Polo mints or Fruit Pastilles that dissolve in your mouth, it takes five or 10 minutes to dissolve one in your mouth, and five or 10 minutes for the saliva to wash it away........................

1 Comments:

  • Another welcome admission from Dr Carmel Parnell about sugary diets causing tooth decay which She says will not be prevented by repeat tooth-brushing. Repeat consumption of fluoridated drinking water has been equally unsuccessful since, as she recently declared --see link -- Irish children from 5 yrs up have worse decay than UK children(10% fluoridated)! This is a a most welcome and truthful contribution to oral health policy here in 70% fluoridated Ireland, stymied as it has been for the last 40 years by this holy cow.

    By Anonymous Robert Pocock, at 30 October, 2009  

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