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This App is providing
what our customers want.

The App is based on a lean canvas
and jobs to be done principles.
The 'job' is cleaning the teeth and gums.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR TEETH. WHAT YOU EAT, WHEN AND HOW OFTEN. HOW YOU CLEAN YOUR TEETH, WHEN AND HOW OFTEN.

Teeth4life is an App to support your patients in this role.

It gives patients the information on how to mechanically clean their teeth. Over the last 35 years, Powered tooth brushing and newer inter dental aids are big advances, along with an advised fluoride toothpaste. For 90% of the population, it's enough. The other 10% need to do more to avoid losing teeth from gum disease. A patient can't tell unless they have them measured by a dentist or hygienist. They can monitor themselves, but there are no major advances in this process in the 35 years.

The App explains how to disclose the dental plaque and score oral hygiene yourself. It has a traffic light scoring system. There is no point having complex dental treatment if your scores are too high. This App is to help support you, educate our patients, and encourage the 48% of adults who do not regularly see a dentist to attend.

It does not replace your regular visits to the dentist, it just means you are less likely to have any fillings or crowns. Joining a dental hygiene plan is probably the best vehicle to help protect your teeth4life.

The app will be a free download for the public.
It can be personalised by dentists or hygienists for a small monthly payment to promote their services, contact details and possibly provide some protection against future litigation on gum disease.
Teeth 4 Life App

CLAUDE C HOPKINS IS CREDITED BY CHARLES DUHIGG AS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AMERICANS IMPROVING THEIR ORAL HYGIENE BY PROMOTING PEPSODENT IN THE 1920s.

It is a toothpaste and marketed to get rid of the "film" described by Hopkins. He was not a dentist, he was in advertising. The toothpaste had no fluoride, but a nice taste. Duhigg wrote "The power of habit", and can be viewed via TED talks. It's the basis on a clip on encouraging a good toothbrushing habit from an early age in the APP. I hope it helps. Steve Jobs who designed your iPhone, did not just read books on how to code, he read outside his field. One of his favourite books was The Innovator's Dilemma. It explains to some extent how big health institutions struggle to change.

I qualified in 1982. As with a lot of my generation, I sold up, or out, as most dentists say, to a corporate and should retire gracefully and quietly as it's such a hard profession now. Most of my peers complain, but we are genuinely concerned about the nation's general dental health. We are the silent majority, non-academics, not specialists, but general practitioners carrying out the vast majority of all aspects of dentistry to a high, possibly not specialist, but good enough standard for the average customer.

This App is to help support you, educate our patients, and encourage the 48% of adults who do not regularly see a dentist to attend. When NHS dentistry started in 1948 it was free. Due to the materials of the day, a lot of the public had all their teeth extracted and dentures made for their wedding. I fear we are heading that way, except clearly, the public will pay the NHS more than we actually get paid ourselves. This is an effort to stop that happening.

In any business, you are regularly advised to get in your helicopter and look from above. We have drifted into a position where we are unable to learn and work through fear of a "mistake", or not being compliant driven by whom? A whole section of service legislators, whose role is to make new rules, then demand compliance supported by professional expert witnesses who don't do the work and policed by predatory no-win no-fee lawyers. The balance went too far for public protection years ago. The public is let down by the legislators allowing this to happen.

Nobody fully learns if they don't make the odd mistake, if they repeat it they need further training which is the role of the profession. The new GDPR has been brought in for good reason, but unless we are careful it will cause another unnecessary headache for young professionals as predatory legal teams find an angle. It's up to the software company to ensure compliance, not us to be concerned about notes we made five years ago. The above applies to all the doctors, teachers, and police I treat but could be applicable to dentists.

Peter Drucker in management said, "There is nothing quite as useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all."

The app will be a free download.
Teeth 4 Life App

The lower your scores,
the longer your teeth will last.
protect your teeth4life.

I have always "fiddled" with computers.

My Dad, like a third of us will, developed a type of dementia and spent over a year in a hospital. The staff were great, but they and my patients who work in care homes have no or minimal training for oral hygiene. Using modern technology we could support the staff with online training, a MOOC. It's why I advise all my patients to use an electric brush. I say it's easier for their carer. The cost would be under £80,000 for the project.

Make work your hobby, and you'll never work again.

Both Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs restricted the time their children could use home computers as they were concerned about the effect such access would have on their children. Now lots of extremely young children have smartphones, and access to the internet and their 100s of "friends" and worse. We have slept walked into a position where our children do not have time to be children. Unlike smoking and sugar taxation, which was slowly implemented by the government as a blunt tool to improve general health, it will be a brave parent to take away their mobile phone and Google, Apple and Amazon won't allow such legislation. They have more lobbying power than the tobacco and sugar industries.

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