D.B.Ritchie & proteolytic help
Brian Sandle
Deficient plaque?
I had always thought that plaque was a bothersome layer on the teeth
which should be got rid of.
I quote from "Balance of Health 1 Care of Teeth", by D.B.Ritchie,
University of New Zealand Dental Degree.
page 1. -'by the skin of our teeth!'-
Teeth, like any other component structures of all forms of life, have a
skin, a very special sin. It may be, and often is, called the ENAMEL
INTEGUMENT. More often, it is called the DENTAL PLAQUE. It is an
invisible, strong and extremely thin membrane covering the enamel and is
anatomically and naturally an enduring part of the tooth. It has
important vital significance in maintaining health just as the skin of
our face preserves the health of the underlying tissue."
-"magnesium is the most important di-valent cation of all tissues" -
Paterson, 1974
Twenty years ago, when patients were beginning to copy my initial
experiments in the supplemental mineralization of teeth, it was noticed
that those who still used tooth paste had an undiminished rate of tooth
decay; while those who did not use tooth paste developed a much more
caries resistant tooth. This matter was put to Dental School
Authorities, who were unable to explain it. Under Prof. Edwards,
Chemistry Dept, Otago University, many repeated tests of this phenomenon
showed that saliva from these two classes of patients was significantly
different in magnesium content. Under Prof Campbell, I developed a
highly technical analytical test for tooth-surface magnesium. I clearly
demonstrated a highly significant deficiency of this element in tooth-
surfaces which had suffered abrasion by tooth paste. On the other hand
there was a very high magnesium in whole, unabraded tooth-surfaces which
naturally retained their dental plaque. Such whole tooth surfaces were
characteristically from teeth free from decay or fillings. Teeth which
had suffered toothpaste abrasion (known in research circles as having
artificially altered tooth-surfaces) were almost always broken down by
intense dental caries. About 5% of the many teeth investigated seemed
out of line with these observations. In later years it had been
considered that these lucky few were of children born with almost
perfectly constructed teeth, which were apparently unaffected by
toothpaste abrasion. The above study was reported (1) (1961) and well
received internationally.
-"blind leading the blind"-
Interest was aroused in these results, and the Dental School was
requested (2) to carry out a high-level investigation of this phenomenon
of abrasion related to the preservation of the dental plaque and
subsequent mineralization. After a two-year double blind study carried
out on 140 children at the Half Way Bush Primary School, Dunedin, it was
found that children who used toothpaste, regularly or even indifferently
suffered a high rate of tooth decay. Children who did not use tooth
paste, had almost no tooth decay. The result was highly significant as
testified by the Otago Medical School Statistician. (3)
An interesting side-issue was the fact that children whose diet was
supplemented by a phosphate mineral powder and who used no toothpaste
had 16 times less decay experience than children who did use toothpaste
whether with, or without, a phosphate mineral supplement! This latter
result was also highly significant.(4)
The Experimental Salt Mixture in the Half Way Bush study
Mag phos tribas 16 : Calcii phos 8 : Potass phos 4 : Sod phos 1 : Ferri
phos sacch. 0.5 : Sod sulphate 2.
Average Incremental Smooth Enamel Decay
Months 0 6 12 19 26
Sub-Control (Paste) 2.1 2.1 2.7 4.4 2.2
Control (No Paste) 2.2 2.2 2.7 1.2 1.3
Mineral Salts (No Paste) 2.2 2.2 1.7 0.3 0.2
The table shows the results reported by D.B.Ritchie of a two year double
blind experiment carried out on 140 children at Half Way Bush Primary
School, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, years 1959 -1961.
The high peaks of caries incidence in the toothpaste section (deficient
plaque) coincides significantly with the summer acid-fruit season in
Otago.
-"strands of research" -
In the years which followed, reports of similar studies appeared in many
scientifically prominent research journals. Nizel and Harris (5)
reported over 100 studies in which phosphates successfully reduced the
incidence of tooth decay. In these test, animals were used where their
dental plaques were kept intact and capable of storing the supplementary
mineral obtained from special diets.
page 4.
A.E.Russell (10) of the National Institute of Dental Research, Bethesda,
U.S.A. travelled the world studying the teeth of children and
adolescents of different nations. These indigenous children were
untouched by the customary procedures of dental care (no tooth pastes,
no dental supervision), as carried out in the U.S.A. He stated "the very
low caries experience of children and adolescents in different parts of
the world as compared with the decay rate seen in America and similar
western countries, cannot be explained by diet alone". The natural
tooth-surfaces of these native children compared with the toothpasted,
altered tooth-surfaces of American children, explained the great
difference.
pages 9-10. It is born out by many native populations, and is certainly
my experience professionally, that children's teeth, maturing in a
natural, healthy environment, should be kept clean by the eating of
fibrous foods, including fruits and vegetables, at the end of a meal.
Perhaps starting at 8 or 9, the use of a soft nylon brush could be
helpful at night time. The brush is dipped into a simple mineralizing
solution of baking soda (1 teaspoon) plus crude sea salt to taste (up to
about half a teaspoon) in half a cup of water... Bacteriologic tests (7)
have shown the survival in this solution of larger proteolytic organisms
which are helpful in "policing the plaque"... can be slightly improved
by a small amount of strontium chloride, and a very little fluoride
(below 50 ppm). Only a faulty diet will leave unsightly debris (possibly
materia alba), and then brushing becomes a necessity.
For adult dental hygiene, I have long recommended a mixture of phosphate
powders (Dentamin), quickly soluble and reactive with saliva, which
produce an excellent mineralising effect within the dental
plaque....However such dentrifice powders have a very restricted use for
children, as the possible hurried application to anterior teeth before
the careful mixing with saliva might give these powders a slightly
abrasive effect on the young teeth. Instead I have produced a safe gel-
paste (Biodentamin-C) based on the research of Dr Wei (8) who has
demonstrated the possibility of using a "pre-enamel" formula in
restoring defect enamel surfaces.
-'pre-enamel, one stage removed from true enamel'-
Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate is such a pre-enamel compound, and it has
been formulated into a pleasantly acid gel. It can be safely brushed
upon the young teeth, using a very tiny amount, and gives a highly
successful build up of plaque mineral which appears to stabilize even
visible defects in the enamel surface. It is followed, of course, by a
copious flow of saliva which washes the teeth, and should be swallowed.
It contains traces of dicalcium\dimagnesium phosphate dihydrate, a very
important mineral nutrient, particularly for a growing child. The
bicarbonate of the saliva raises the tooth-surface pH to a point where
the pre-enamel is converted to true enamel, or hydroxy-apatite. Also in
the presence of the high plaque fluoride (possibly as magnesium
fluoride) the hydroxy-apatite is converted to fluor-apatite, the most
stable form of enamel known to man. This simple biochemical sequence
need not worry you, it all happens automatically. The pre-enamel gel
paste is best used at night time, as resting saliva (when a child is
asleep) becomes highly alkaline, and will help the more thorough
conversion to fluorapatite. After breakfast, a quick brush with the
baking-soda-salt solution would ensure a safe plaque environment
throughout the day..
Home dental care in these terms is the practical enhancement of natural
protective oral conditions, and produces clean shining teeth with a
sweet mouth odour.
" - "what about fluoride?" - public query
What about fluoride? The dental authorities have neglected to inform the
public many things about fluoride, the most important being of course,
that a natural concentration of fluoride (much higher than in our common
foods) exists at the tooth surface - and this fluoride is destroyed
quickly and completely by abrasion with common toothpastes. The
importance of fluoride in relation to maturing of young enamel lies in
its natural concentration, form, and location in the plaque at the
enamel surface. Gedalia (9) of the Hebrew College of Medicine, Hadassah,
has shown that the tooth-surface fluoride varies little, indeed, whether
a person has been born and bred in a region of high fluoride (1-2 ppm)
or in a region of low fluoride (0.1 - 0.2 ppm) in the water supplies.
In South Africa, some 20 miles from Johannesburgh, native high school
students were surveyed for dental caries. Their decay experience was
extremely low, mostly that from teenage girls who used abrasive clay and
ashes to clean stains from their front teeth. Such stains were due to
fluoride in their drinking water (3ppm). In the neighbouring district, a
similar survey again showed a low caries experience. But in this latter
district, there was no fluoride in the drinking water/ In both districts
a lightly-milled (whole grain) mealie meal was the staple diet. No
toothpaste was used. Surely this is a most revealing research study of
the value(?) of high fluoride in water supplies!"
(1) D.B.Ritchie, "Nature" 190 : 4774; 456 - 458, (1961).
(2) Otago University Council (1959).
(3) G.Spiers, Official Statistical Report, H.W.B. Research Study, Otago
Daily Times, 4 August 1961
(5) Nizel and Harris, Journal of Dental Research; 1123 - 1136, 1964
(6) T.Koulourides, Arch. Oral Biol., 14; 1407 -1417 (1969)
(7) Otago Univ. Bacteriology Dept., (circa 1964).
(8) Wei and Wefel, Journal of Dental Research, 55 : 1; 135-141 (Jan
1976)
(9) J. Dent. Res. 39; 4; 849 (1960)
(10) A.E.Russell, Journal of Dental Research, 40; 3,602 (1961).
Apologies for confusions caused as I look at this little known, but
possibly very significant, and emotionally charged, topic.
I am probably spoiling this a lot by taking these short abstracts from
this 12 page booklet.
What is current thinking on this?
Colgate in New Zealand now make a tooth paste with calcium phosphate in
it as a mild abrasive. Their gels have no calcium but rougher silica
abrasive.
Triclosan is an antibacterial agent in them, and I wonder how that
affects the "larger proteolytic organisms". They also now make a
toothpaste with baking soda, but no calcium, and some other abrasive
ingredient, titanium dioxide, which I wasn't too sure about for myself.
Brian R.Sandle. Please teach me.
Zugumba
>Brian R.Sandle. Please teach me.
No, please teach us! <g>
You're a closet dental researcher.
Brian Sandle
: Brian Sandle wrote in message <93161781...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>...
:>Brian R.Sandle. Please teach me.
: No, please teach us! <g>
: You're a closet dental researcher.
Yes, I am not trained. I have come up against a few things, and pass some on.
I am probably more at risk from tooth clenching than from extra caries
now.
Besides food around the gums, causing gingivits and moving on to
periodotal disease may be a great cause of tooth loss than caries these days?
What sort of toothpick is good for removing sticky starch from gum edge
around back teeth?
QUIZ - Which of the following tooth skin layers will be missing and
which different 8 hours after abrasive brushing?
Adapted from D.B.Ritchie "Balance of Health [1] Teeth"
MATURE PLAQUE (some weeks after stopping abrasive brushing)
E Layer: Self-determining external mucous coat of the dental plaque
D2 layer: the mature bacterial zone, now a well-mixed, and ordered
population, remote from the enamel surface
C layer: the built up mineral layer of the plaque membrane, with high
fluoride, phosphate, etc.
B layer: the initial plaque membrane
A layer: the tooth enamel
Answer 10 lines down
Answer: 8-hour plaque has only
D1 layer: the bacterial zone dominantly strep. mutans, with easy access
to the fissure defects of the enamel surface
B layer: the initial plaque membrane
A layer: tooth enamel (if lucky)
What I am not sure about is what happens if food removes mature plaque
from a biting surface? I don't even know whether it does.
Brian R.Sandle. I hope the tooth cares didn't bring the caries and
fairies.
Zugumba
>Brian R.Sandle. I hope the tooth cares didn't bring the caries and
>fairies.
Too much. <g>
Hans Lennros
You wrote:
>Teeth, like any other component structures of all forms of life, have a
>skin, a very special sin. It may be, and often is, called the ENAMEL
>INTEGUMENT. More often, it is called the DENTAL PLAQUE.
What the heck is "INTEGUMENT" ? Had to look it up:
Latin integumentum, from integere to cover: something that covers or
encloses; especially : an enveloping layer (as a skin, membrane,
or husk) of an organism or one of its parts
>-"magnesium is the most important di-valent cation of all tissues" -
Magnesium in salivary buffer system is no novelty.
>For adult dental hygiene, I have long recommended a mixture of phosphate
>powders (Dentamin), quickly soluble and reactive with saliva, which
>produce an excellent mineralising effect within the dental plaque
Again, no novelty. All comes down to chemical buffers and precipiation.
> The bicarbonate of the saliva raises the tooth-surface pH to a point
> where the pre-enamel is converted to true enamel, or hydroxy-apatite.
It is all a question of solubility, the Ka value.
>Also in the presence of the high plaque fluoride (possibly as magnesium
>fluoride) the hydroxy-apatite is converted to fluor-apatite, the most
>stable form of enamel known to man.
Now we know it is calcium fluoride.
> The pre-enamel gel paste is best used at night time, as resting
> saliva (when a child is asleep) becomes highly alkaline, and will
> help the more thorough conversion to fluorapatite.
No, it is not. Pre-enamel gel paste sounds like an ad. Most effective it
is when there is plaque. Remember; a clean tooth cannot remineralize!
(bet you not many dentists know that!)
>After breakfast, a quick brush with the baking-soda-salt solution
>would ensure a safe plaque environment throughout the day..
What the heck is a safe plaque environment?
>Home dental care in these terms is the practical enhancement of
>natural protective oral conditions, and produces clean shining teeth
>with a sweet mouth odour.
Many words - no meaning.
>What about fluoride? > tooth-surface fluoride varies little whether
>a person has been born and bred in a region of high fluoride (1-2 ppm)
>or in a region of low fluoride (0.1 - 0.2 ppm) in the water supplies.
Enamel is formed during a period when fluoride has little, or no, effect.
Fluoride in water supplies has been demonstrated to reduce caries
incidence, as well as prevalenc, with 50%. Today no-one can give
an definite answer as why this occurs. It is under debate.
> Surely this is a most revealing research study of the value(?) of high
>fluoride in water supplies!"
Fluoride, like penicillin, has no effect in someone who doesn't need it!
>Triclosan is an antibacterial agent in them, and I wonder how that
>affects the "larger proteolytic organisms". They also now make a
>toothpaste with baking soda, but no calcium, and some other abrasive
>ingredient, titanium dioxide, which I wasn't too sure about for myself.
What is 'larger proteolytic organisms' ?
Maybe researchers who destroy the original issue they are to examine
(amalgam, fluoride etc) by not knowing the first thing about what they
really should be looking for ?
Bye for now,
Hans
Joel M. Eichen
>Hi Brian,
>You wrote:
>>Teeth, like any other component structures of all forms of life, have a
>>skin, a very special sin.
Is this turning into alt.sci.religion?
Cheers,
Joel
-----
Better repent before Y2K.
Zugumba
<7m8bqk$1hj$1...@birch.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
>Is this turning into alt.sci.religion?
"This is my apprentice, Tooth Maul...." (from Amalgam Wars, Part I, The
Proteolytic Menace)
Brian Sandle
: Hi Brian,
: You wrote:
:>Teeth, like any other component structures of all forms of life, have a
:>skin, a very special sin. It may be, and often is, called the ENAMEL
:>INTEGUMENT. More often, it is called the DENTAL PLAQUE.
: What the heck is "INTEGUMENT" ? Had to look it up:
: Latin integumentum, from integere to cover: something that covers or
: encloses; especially : an enveloping layer (as a skin, membrane,
: or husk) of an organism or one of its parts
Haven't seen Soaring Bear for a while:
************************
Soaring Bear (be...@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu) wrote:
: In article <3hlm1l$b...@southern.co.nz>,
: Brian Sandle <Brian_...@equinox.gen.nz> wrote:
: >Soaring Bear (be...@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu) wrote:
: >: In article <3h7rng$m...@southern.co.nz>,
: >: >I have been referring to the work of D.B.Ritchie who says that the
invisible
: >: >layer of mature plaque is beneficial - it has a microbiology which
: >: >concentrates fluoride from saliva many times on the tooth surface.
: >
: >: the 'invisible layer' which microbiologists label as
: >: pellicle, is rather different from the visible plaque. The
: >: plaque is composed of microorganisms but is not microscopically thin.
: >
: >I would be interested in any refs on this.
:
: Not in hand at moment. Ought to be able to find something
: at any medical library. Perhaps you have medline CD's or
: online search?
:
: >Is the pellicle removed by toothpaste abrasion, as well as the plaque?
:
: Yes.
:
: > I have quoted Ritchie saying the
: >plaque is also called the 'enamel integument'. Who else besides Ritchie
: >talks of tooth skin importance in resisting decay?
:
: Integument is just a $5 word meaning covering. You
: could put toothpaste on and call that an integument also.
Yes, but my Concise Oxford says "integument" is usually a natural
covering.
*********************
:>-"magnesium is the most important di-valent cation of all tissues" -
: Magnesium in salivary buffer system is no novelty.
:>For adult dental hygiene, I have long recommended a mixture of phosphate
:>powders (Dentamin), quickly soluble and reactive with saliva, which
:>produce an excellent mineralising effect within the dental plaque
: Again, no novelty. All comes down to chemical buffers and precipiation.
And apparently bacterial action.
:> The bicarbonate of the saliva raises the tooth-surface pH to a point
:> where the pre-enamel is converted to true enamel, or hydroxy-apatite.
: It is all a question of solubility, the Ka value.
That comes into it. The pre enamel is a bit more soluble in the acid gel
formulation so it can be got onto, perhaps into the plaque.
Just applying the hydroxy-apatite would not work.
Going back to what you have not quoted:
******************
Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate is such a pre-enamel compound, and it has
been formulated into a pleasantly acid gel. It can be safely brushed
upon the young teeth, using a very tiny amount, and gives a highly
successful build up of plaque mineral which appears to stabilize even
visible defects in the enamel surface. It is followed, of course, by a
copious flow of saliva which washes the teeth, and should be swallowed.
It contains traces of dicalcium\dimagnesium phosphate dihydrate, a very
important mineral nutrient, particularly for a growing child. The
bicarbonate of the saliva raises the tooth-surface pH to a point where
the pre-enamel is converted to true enamel, or hydroxy-apatite.
*****************
:>Also in the presence of the high plaque fluoride (possibly as magnesium
:>fluoride) the hydroxy-apatite is converted to fluor-apatite, the most
:>stable form of enamel known to man.
: Now we know it is calcium fluoride.
No. Enamel is not calcium fluoride. Or if you meant calcium fluoride
rather than magnesium fluoride above you would be wrong, too. Calcium
salts are rather insoluble.
:> The pre-enamel gel paste is best used at night time, as resting
:> saliva (when a child is asleep) becomes highly alkaline, and will
:> help the more thorough conversion to fluorapatite.
: No, it is not. Pre-enamel gel paste sounds like an ad.
from above:
Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate is such a pre-enamel compound, and it has
been formulated into a pleasantly acid gel.
Dicalcium phosphate dihydrate is listed on the Colgate "with calcium"
toothpaste. That is a bit of an ad, isn't it. Though see below about gels &c.
Most effective it
: is when there is plaque. Remember; a clean tooth cannot remineralize!
: (bet you not many dentists know that!)
Now you are being facetious?
See a bit more of what happens in the abstract below.
:>After breakfast, a quick brush with the baking-soda-salt solution
:>would ensure a safe plaque environment throughout the day..
: What the heck is a safe plaque environment?
One in which step mutans is not too close to the enamel, for example.
:>Home dental care in these terms is the practical enhancement of
:>natural protective oral conditions, and produces clean shining teeth
:>with a sweet mouth odour.
: Many words - no meaning.
For the layers of pellicle tabulation see the "Pellicle layer quiz" thread.
:>What about fluoride? > tooth-surface fluoride varies little whether
:>a person has been born and bred in a region of high fluoride (1-2 ppm)
:>or in a region of low fluoride (0.1 - 0.2 ppm) in the water supplies.
: Enamel is formed during a period when fluoride has little, or no, effect.
I presume that it will be taken from the mother, as with other elements.
So look out for the effect on the mother rather than on the foetus.
That is the initial part.
The next is that enamel can form, but what sort of enamel?
: Fluoride in water supplies has been demonstrated to reduce caries
: incidence, as well as prevalenc, with 50%. Today no-one can give
: an definite answer as why this occurs. It is under debate.
I think Ritchie's point is that with the naturally occuring layers of the
plaque the fluoride can be concentrated on the tooth enamel.
Fluoride itself is not put into water supplies. It would precipitate with
calcium to form insoluble calcium fluoride. I think sodium silicofluoride
may be used. I am not sure how that compares with the sodium
monofluorophosphate in most toothpaste these days. I see Sensodyne has
changed to that from sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride can have an adverse
affect on the metabolism of glucose.
:> Surely this is a most revealing research study of the value(?) of high
:>fluoride in water supplies!"
: Fluoride, like penicillin, has no effect in someone who doesn't need it!
The question is why they don't need it. Or in the case of the fluorine
compound whether they can concentrate it where it is needed. Rather than
penicillin the example of vitamin B12 would be better. Persons who cannot
make the intrinsic factor to absorb it through the bowel wall may need
injections of it.
To worry Zugumba with another concept here, I think that vitamin B12 may
be made in the small amount of decaying food left in the mouth if some
cobalt is available. So I am not sure about the total safety of removing
every last particle of food from the mouth. Alternatively it may be made
in the lower bowel but not everyone can absorb it there. Then of course
it is in animal products. Spirulina has some substance which looks like
it but is not and may confuse the body, I think.
:>Triclosan is an antibacterial agent in them, and I wonder how that
:>affects the "larger proteolytic organisms". They also now make a
:>toothpaste with baking soda, but no calcium, and some other abrasive
:>ingredient, titanium dioxide, which I wasn't too sure about for myself.
: What is 'larger proteolytic organisms' ?
At a guess lye is caustic soda, a protein breaking down agent. So
proteolytic organism is a protein-breaking-down organism.
Remember:
survival in this solution of larger proteolytic organisms
which are helpful in "policing the plaque"
Does triclosan kill them?
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Title
Biochemistry and physiology of a remarkable family of human
antimicrobial salivary proteins.
Author, Editor, Inventor
Kalpidis-C; Oppenheim-F-G
Source
Odontostomatologike-Proodos.July-Aug., 1997; 51 (4) 216-227..
Publication Year
1997
Language
Greek; Non-English
Abstract
A neutral phosphoprotein and several distinct small (3-5 kD)
basic proteins with high histidine content constitute the
exciting polymorphic family of histatins in salivary
secretions. Histatins comprise a protective defense system that
exerts multifunctional biological activities in the oral
environment including formation of the acquired enamel
pellicle, involvement in mineral solution dynamics, and
microbicidal properties against several microorganisms.
Isolation and purification procedures are largely dependent on
the characteristic electrophoretic and chromatographic behavior
of these molecules with completely characterized familial
structural relations. Histatins which are encoded by only two
genes localized on human chromosome 4q13 derive from highly
specific post-translational modifications. Histatin 2 is
generated by enzymatic fragmentation of histatin 1 and the rest
of the histatins are proteolytic products of histatin 3
resulting in high degree of amino acid sequence homology
between the members of the family. Specifically restricted to
salivary glandular tissues, histatins have evolved recently
since they are only expressed in saliva of animals
phylogenetically higher than Cercopithecoidea. Histatins are
major salivary components and distinguished serous secretory
cell products. Glandular tissue is capable of responding to
mechanical and chemical stimulation by vast production and
release of histatins into the oral cavity. After secretion in
the mouth, the bioavailability of histatins is determined by
complexing with other salivary macromolecules and proteolytic
fragmentation by host and bacterial proteases.
Accession Number
199800030183
Update Code
19971201 .
: Maybe researchers who destroy the original issue they are to examine
: (amalgam, fluoride etc) by not knowing the first thing about what they
: really should be looking for ?
I worry that you are trying to confuse people into accepting more costly
dentists' filling and implanting craft.
: Bye for now,
: Hans
Brian Sandle
Zugumba
>If there is food around the gums does that trigger an
>eat-to-move-food-from-gums-so-it-will-not-decay-on-them-and-loosen-teeth?
What???
Brian Sandle
: Hans Lennros <hans.l...@swipnet.se> wrote:
: :>After breakfast, a quick brush with the baking-soda-salt solution
: :>would ensure a safe plaque environment throughout the day..
: : What the heck is a safe plaque environment?
: One in which step mutans is not too close to the enamel, for example.
: :>Home dental care in these terms is the practical enhancement of
: :>natural protective oral conditions, and produces clean shining teeth
: :>with a sweet mouth odour.
: : Many words - no meaning.
: For the layers of pellicle tabulation see the "Pellicle layer quiz" thread.
How often do you get a patient who does not use bacteriocidal toohpaste
have sweet smelling breath?
There is a very important meaning there - that there must be a warning if
the breath smells at all foul.
I have just had a little brainstorm.
If there is food around the gums does that trigger an
eat-to-move-food-from-gums-so-it-will-not-decay-on-them-and-loosen-teeth?
I could have put this into several articles for Zugumba who likes dealing
with one bit of info per button push, but Joel has been warning of the
charges. Actually the size of the content of this article must be not
much more than equal to the header of it.