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  • The MouthWise Oral Health Kit Images
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 30, 2008 | No Comments  Comments
    Front Cover, Visit 10 to GarGar The Dentist
    Front Cover, Visit 10 to GarGar The Dentist
  • Vote For Children’s Oral Health
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 30, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

    Vote for Children’s Oral Health

    The following You Tube video was an audition video I submitted for The Next Internet Millionaire contest of 2007, the brainchild of internet guru Joel Comm of adsense fame. I failed to receive enough votes to get past the end of the first stage. However it did get a lot of good, free publicity for my cause. Your rating even now will help prevent oral disease in children and would be greatly appreciated.

     


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  • The Roles of Parents and Teachers in MouthWise Web Ad...
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 27, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

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    The Roles of Parents and Teachers


    In


    MouthWise Web Adventures 4 Kids


     

    Parents


     

    I believe children’s ideal oral hygiene instructors are their parents, simply because they are with their children every day and children need oral healthcare instruction and oral healthcare supervision every day.

     

    Teachers


    I believe children’s ideal oral health educators are their teachers at school, simply because teachers are trained to teach and schools have the ideal environment for learning. But I do not imply that a parent is not always the ideal for this role.

     

    Enrol Your Children Today


    Parents and teachers, enrol your children today in the MouthWise Oral Web Adventures 4 Kids. Educate your children to become self-motivated to make the wise decisions CHILDREN constantly need to make for themselves, without supervision, to PREVENT oral disease, to MAINTAIN oral health, to RETAIN their teeth white, to PRESERVE their smiles for life and to AVOID expensive dentistry. Oral health educators, give children their very best oral healthcare education. Tell them all about a smile.

    You are children’s ideal oral health educators. Children need oral health educators who can deliver the very best oral healthcare education at the time when they need it most. From the eruption of a child’s first baby teeth to the eruption of the last second molar teeth! As soon as they are receptive, start telling them all about a smile. (more…)

  • Video: Zorba The Greek Yolgnu Style
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 13, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

    Comments by Dr Garth Pettit on The Video Zorba The Greek Yolgnu Style

     

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    MouthWise Oral HealthCare education resources had their origins when, in January 1997, I was accepted for the position of District Dental Officer, East Arnhem Land in the North-West of the Northern Territory of Australia.

    Until my departure from East Arnhem Land in June 2002 I was kept happily, very busy, visiting the main, remote, greatly-scattered Aboriginal communities in that wonderful, unique part of Australia.

    It was during my visit in early 2001 to the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar when I first became aware that the instruction “Brush Your Teeth” was flawed, a cause of oral diseases and needed a major overhaul. So was born my 21st Century oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”.

    I have many wonderful memories of East Arnhem Land and of it’s inhabitants. When Australian aboriginals live on their natural bush tucker diet they have one of the most beautiful dentitions in the world.

    They are wonderful people and have a great sense of humour as you will note in this video. (more…)

  • About The Author
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 12, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

    Dr Garth Pettit

    ……Dr Garth Pettit, Dentist, Inventor, Author, Educator
    Hello,
    I was born in Henley Beach, Adelaide, South Australia on 20th November 1931.

    I was educated at Port Lincoln Kindergarten, then Port Lincoln Primary School, then Port Lincoln High School. I attended Adelaide High School for the Leaving Honours Certificate before beginning my university career at Adelaide University, Faculty of Dentistry in 1949 and graduated as a dentist in November 1953.

    Since then I have practiced dentistry in Australia, then in the U.K. then back in Australia until I retired in November 1992. Shortly before retiring I Received a Graduate Diploma in Management from the University of Central Queensland subjects on economics and finance were my stumbling blocks to continue through to a Master of Business Administration.

    But the most interesting years for me have been between January 1997 and coming up to the end of 2008. In these years I have been back at dentistry again for all but 2 years and 6 months. WITH A PASSIONATE PURPOSE!

    Over the past 12 years I have devoted my time to creating The MouthWise Oral HealthCare Education Resources. Resources for all age groups to educate how to prevent the easily preventable oral diseases such as tooth decay, gum diseases, bad breath and stained teeth.

    I do feel very passionately about condemning the 500 + year old tooth cleaning instruction as a cause of oral diseases and equally passionately about introducing the totally oral, oral hygiene instruction “Treat Your Whole Mouth”. The very first totally oral, oral hygiene instruction ever!

    P.S. Wondering about the inventor? You’ll find the information here. At the time there were an estimated 10,000 million vinyl records sold every year. That was also the time when new technology was about to be introduced. Compact Discs were about to hit the market and interest in vinyl records was predicted to dwindle so the invention became a non-profit venture, however not a waste of time, money or effort because I have since then benefited personally from many valuable lessons I learned by attempting that venture. The success of my twelve year-long venture to prevent oral diseases in children will be due in no small way to applying capacities for patience, perserverence and persistence, by applying the abilty to use visionary powers to achieve goals and not the least by recognizing and applying the power of that which is morally correct when setting goals.

    (WO/1983/000252) IMPROVED PERIPHERAL RIM FOR DISC RECORDS

    Int. Class.8:, G11B 3/68. Applicant:, PETTIT, Garth, Derwood . Inventor:, PETTIT, Garth, Derwood . Priority Data:. PE 9672, 09.07.1981, AU
    www.wipo.org/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=1983000252 – 12k – CachedSimilar pages

  • Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 10 June 2005
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

    Dentist Announces New Oral Health Campaign, The MouthWiseLife Campaign to Prevent Oral Disease in Children”, Targeting Mothers of Young Children

    Dentist Announces New Oral Health Campaign, The MouthWiseLife Campaign to Prevent Oral Disease in Children”, Targeting Mothers of Young Children. Dr Pettit Claims the Dental Profession Has Adopted a Sweep it Under The Carpet” Attitude About His Recently Released Oral Disease Prevention Information and His MouthWise Oral Health Education Resources. Dr Pettit Claims Vital Information is Being Denied to Mothers of Young Children! Recruiting Worldwide, Independent Distributors Will Ensure Campaign Success.

    (PRWEB) June 10, 2005 — Rostrevor, South Australia, 9th June, 2005: Dentist plans to bypass the dental profession to ensure that children will benefit from his recently announced oral disease prevention information and MouthWise Oral Health Education Resources. Dr Garth Pettit claims children are being denied the benefits of his oral disease prevention information, because they are being swept under the carpet and not being made available to the mothers of young children. (more…)

  • Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 9 November 2004
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments  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…)

  • Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 8 November 2004
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments  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…)
  • Dr Pettit’s PRWeb Press Release 26 May 2007
    By Dr Garth Pettit on November 11, 2008 | No Comments  Comments

    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…)