edel+white Oral Care
Science

Beautiful teeth start at home with good oral hygiene.

With proper oral hygiene, teeth are more likely to remain beautiful and healthy all life long. This is our guideline and credo when developing products which we have designed to motivate and support people in all age groups to maintain their oral hygiene everyday.
Since foundation, edel+white has it made it’s goal to promote the best dental health possible by ensuring that the e+w product range is designed with the best available technologies and clinically proven effective ingredients.

Focus on dental beauty and on preventing major dental diseases

edel+white products focus on two of the major dental diseases, tooth decay (caries) and gum inflammation.

Both caries and inflamed gums originate from the growth of bacteria on the tooth surface, the dental space and along the gum margin. If not removed, this bacteria form a sticky layer called plaque. Dentists estimate that over 90 per cent of the population suffers from gum inflammation, called gingivitis. Plaque formation affects dental surfaces (enamel, dentin) by creating a continuously acidic environment which attacks the surface material and which leads to dental lesions and to tooth decay. Furthermore, plaque causes inflamed, bleeding gums, which ultimately recede and destabilise teeth. Left untreated, it develops into a disease called periodontitis, a serious infection that destroys the soft tissue and bone that support your teeth. It may not only cause tooth loss, but also increases the risk for heart attack, strokes and possibly premature births in pregnant women.

Links to studies done on the Swiss dental health status:

Changes in dental caries 1953-2003, Marthaler TM., 2003

Caries prevalence among students in 16 Zurich districts in the years 1992 to 2000, Menghini G, Steiner M, Marthaler T, Helfenstein U, Brodowski D, Imfeld C, Weber R, Imfeld T. , 2003

Decline of caries prevalence in Swiss military recruits between 1970 and 1996, Menghini GD, Steiner M, Marthaler TM, Weber RM. , 2003

Thanks to prevention: almost no more amalgam in the teeth of young people, Marthaler TM , 2003

Oral health: CH 2000. Dental care of the Swiss population: a model of a health care system, Lutz F, Meier C, Imfeld T, Gaberthuel T, Lang NP. , 2003

The subjective evaluation of oral health in 40- to 69-year-old subjects. A representative survey of 600 persons in German- and French-speaking Switzerland, Imfeld T, Lutz F. 1995

Dental hygiene in the awareness of the Swiss population. A representative survey of 2,400 households with 4,537 persons in German- and French-speaking Switzerland, Imfeld T, Lutz F. 1995

New studies on estimated and actual toothbrushing times and dentifrice use., Saxer UP,Barbakow J, Yankell SL. 1998