Posts tagged dental preventive care
Spotlight on Jelly Beans

in Australia, jelly beans have been sold for 80 years at chemists and marketed as important to health for their glucose content but these cute and tasty, fun flavoured, multi coloured confectionaries violently attack your teeth. Jelly beans coat your teeth with their stickiness which can only be removed by brushing and flossing.

Cavity producing bacteria love to eat jelly beans even more than you do. They eat the jelly beans and produce acid which damages your tooth enamel and causes tooth decay.

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World Health Organisation calling to prioritise Dental Health

This week the World Dental Federation (FDI) called on governments and global health bodies to prioritise action against oral diseases, including through integrating oral health at the United Nations (UN) High Level Meeting (HLM) on Universal Health Coverage.

The Meeting takes place in New York and is a key opportunity for countries to assess progress and identify areas for concrete action to provide health for all.

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