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    Your Mouth: A Pragmatic Exposé of Informed Self-Care & Astute Decision-Making Skills for the Oral Healthcare Consumer
    Your Mouth: A Pragmatic Exposé of Informed Self-Care & Astute Decision-Making Skills for the Oral Healthcare Consumer
    Your Mouth: A Pragmatic Exposé of Informed Self-Care & Astute Decision-Making Skills for the Oral Healthcare Consumer
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    Your Mouth: A Pragmatic Exposé of Informed Self-Care & Astute Decision-Making Skills for the Oral Healthcare Consumer

    By Nif Eneojo and VE Adamu

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    Your Mouth is a book written for everyone who has a mouth. This mouth-health information resource book is truth-revealing and skills-teaching. It is written from a rich background of years of experience in the delivery of functional healthcare to the mouth, teaching and research, and seasoned with some reliable research findings and evidence about the effects of care given to the mouth around the world. Our desire is that Your Mouth will help you and your household to attain and maintain a good level of mouth-health. This can enable you to avoid many expensive visits to the mouth-care clinic to take care of mouth problems, care for your own mouth twenty-four hours a day - even at home, deal decisively with some common problems of the mouth by yourself and preserve your mouth to serve you (optimally) for as long as you live.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781449782993
    Your Mouth: A Pragmatic Exposé of Informed Self-Care & Astute Decision-Making Skills for the Oral Healthcare Consumer
    Author

    Nif Eneojo

    VE ADAMU is an oral/public health academic, author, and analyst. He received his dental therapy degree in 2000. He also holds a MPH degree in (generic) public health. He is a member of the Cochrane Collaboration’s Oral Health Group, as well as a handful of some other corporate professional organizations. Some of his research interests include oral/public health intervention effects, randomized controlled trials of clinic/population-based health and related interventions, and general health-promotion strategies. NIF ENEOJO is a clinical dental therapist and author. Her debut research in 2001 into the use of herbs for medicinal purposes in African dental practice may have pioneering corollaries. They both live and work in and out of Enugu, one of the southeastern cities of Nigeria.

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      Your Mouth - Nif Eneojo

      Copyright © 2013 VE Adamu & NIF Eneojo

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7826-2 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923497

      WestBow Press rev. date: 01/07/2013

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      1

      Nature’s Expectations

      2

      Our Response

      3

      Help Yourself

      4

      Getting Help

      5

      The Trouble With Your Caregivers

      6

      Pulling Along

      7

      Extra: OUT OF THE MOUTH - the gift of talking

      8

      Share Your Knowledge!

      To our God, parents, siblings, children & friends

      Preface

      A PALPABLE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE in our world are poor. Many of our communities are underdeveloped. To add to these, a lot of us are ignorant about matters that border on the health of the mouth. These factors have led to the increase we are experiencing in suffering due to problems of the mouth in the world today. Certain (relevant) national or regional health authorities have tried to reduce this suffering and improve quality of life for their people. However, their efforts, more often than not, have consisted of providing unplanned or scantily planned, ad hoc and spasmodic curative or educational services for the mouth’s health, which in many cases are poorly distributed, and only rich, influential, or privileged persons or urban communities receive benefit from such care or program. Our authorities have good intentions; but we feel that they may not be using the proper approach to curbing mouth problems and reducing suffering for most people. On a general note, we have not been too committed to strategic long-term programs or efforts that foster better and livelier empowerment of the people to take reasonable responsibility for the health of their own mouth. If we are going to achieve what our authorities have failed to achieve, we must tackle our mouth problems from the individual/household level. We must empower people to take informed-responsibility for the health of their own mouth. Realising this need, we are placing this little book in your hands – and consequently, in your home - to help you understand your mouth better, prevent diseases of the mouth, deal with some minor ailments of the mouth at home and take good decisions when it is time to see people whose job it is to care for the mouth.

      ‘Your Mouth’ is a book written for everyone who has a mouth. This mouth-health information resource book is truth revealing and skills teaching. It is written from a rich background of years of experience in the delivery of functional healthcare to the mouth, teaching and research, and seasoned with some reliable research findings and evidences about the effects of care given to the mouth around the world. Our desire is that ‘Your Mouth’ would help you and your household to attain and maintain a level of health of the mouth, that will enable you to give full expression to the purpose of nature for giving you a mouth.

      Current trends in healthcare delivery issues emphasize research, prevention and health care decisions based on evidences about the effects of healthcare interventions. It is our desire that you benefit from the advances in knowledge in these areas of healthcare delivery initiatives. The achievement of better health for the mouth requires the active, rather than passive, involvement of the receivers of care in the promotion of the health of their own mouth. Being well informed integrates you into this rewarding chore. It must be adventurous reading this book! Come on, and let us enjoy it, then!

      - VE ADAMU & NIF ENEOJO

      Enugu, Nigeria; October 2012.

      1

      Nature’s Expectations

      Nature does not change its course to sympathize with our ignorance or consequences of abuse. For instance, maize, rice, cowpea, meat, peanuts, etc. continue to need chewing before swallowing despite the fact that one’s mouth is ailing. This means that nature does not expect us to lose our teeth or the tone and health of our gums, tongue, palate, cheeks and lips. She has given us a mouth. We must in turn do all we can to keep the mouth sound and healthy so it may serve us well.

      THE MOUTH IS A REMARKABLE organ. It communicates many things that only actions can express. The mouth is a powerful tool for defense, assault, feeding, recreation, rehabilitation, expression, beauty, etc.

      Several years ago, a colleague of one of these authors (VEA) was seeing a patient in a surgery opposite his inside a very busy mouth-care clinic in Owerri, one of Nigeria’s eastern cities. She called his attention to a dilemma she was facing. She tried to convince a young patient who used tobacco to cease using it. Apart from the cosmetic concerns tobacco use posed to him, he stood the risk of losing the best quality of life he ought to live, later on, due to his potential predisposition to certain illnesses or even dying prematurely because of the health challenges tobacco use also confers on users. The young man forthrightly told her he had no plans to stay too long on earth. He wondered what he could be living for. He was ready to accept death any time it came, he said. This colleague of VEA was both confounded and stuck. She did not know what to tell him any longer. VEA also tried to convince the young man that he was courting a problem, all to no avail. She just had to let him be! Orientations can be that bad. You must value the gift of life to seek to preserve it. You must also value the gift of the mouth to seek to preserve it or benefit immensely from its use.

      Just take a mirror (looking glass) and look at your teeth from ‘molar to molar’. Do you like your set of teeth? What can you say about the colour and arrangement of your teeth? Now, look at your entire mouth. Note the teeth beautifully arranged on the two arches lining the corresponding jaws (upper and lower jaws). Immediately below the teeth in both arches are the gums. How do you like the colour of your gums? Can

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