But the difficulty is getting people to comply with the education. We know there is a huge Dietary component, a hygiene component, and a bacterial component.

The high consumption of simple carbohydrates in the form of juices, soda, cookies, crackers, chips and corn products that occurs in our country contributes heavily to the problem.

You can explain that to people until you are blue in the face, but getting people to follow a diet high in water, vegetables and protein/healthy proteins is very difficult.

In addition we have a care system that focuses on fixing the results of poor decisions instead of focusing on the prevention of disease. We do this to some degree but prevention is largely individual accountability. You’ve got to eat right, brush your teeth and floss, regularly go for check ups, follow recommendations after check ups.

Also a heavier focus on changing the biological components like the health of the oral flora. If we had better ways to change the bacteria to a more healthy balance in the mouth that would also be useful as well