Your Smile Is Important to Me

Your Smile Is Important to Me - was my inspiration in trying to help share my wealth of knowledge on how to keep your mouth healthy to all those who are important to me in my life, and anyone else who is interesting in learning too.

I was lucky enough to have an amazing friend Olivia Coote who turned my idea into a really cute graphic so I looked real professional - and people asked if "your smile" was who I worked for! I replied  that it is just me !

Give aways from Oral Health Night one, which was in March 2011

I did my second oral health night in June 2013. Learnt a lot from round one and was much easier to organise the second event. Round two also had an excellent turn out with almost 30 young people.

Charlotte was an excellent door lady for me for my second Oral Health Evening, which was a fundraiser for my trip to India. 

Some of the lovely attendees, bit of a treat.

How to make cotton roll butterflies display.

Example and Olivia modelling her creation.

One of the things which came as a surprise to the attendees of talk number 2 was the recommendation not to rinse after brushing! Rinsing after you brush removes all the good stuff from your toothpaste so it doesn't stick around long enough to do its job.

Here is a wee video demonstration of how to floss properly, and why it is important. Please excuse the incredibly cheesy american-ness of this you tube clip! 

Another tip from me if you find it hard to reach the back teeth, anchor your floss by wrapping it around the ring fingers (instead of the pointers) this means you can use your pointers to help push to reach the back teeth. 

Another awesome friend, James Pendergrast, branded up my little Barina for me so I looked even more hard out. It was the funniest thing to drive around Auckland. Got lots of funny looks but more importantly people smiled. Was sad having to say good bye to this little vehicle when I moved. Will have to see who I can impact to improve their oral health over here in WA!