Chewing sticks are used for tooth cleaning by many populations,despite the fact that they contain antimicrobial substances that could conceivably benefit oral hygiene, there have been few attempts to evaluate properties in vivo.
It has been revealed that, the oral hygiene and gingival health of adult Ghanaens who used chewing sticks, toothbrushes, or a combination of both for tooth cleaning.
Meanwhile Checking sticks sellers in Kumasi say the current trend of depreciation of the local currency (the Cedi) against its major trading partner, the Dollar, is affecting their capital, with many traders operating at a loss.
They then urge the Ghanaians youth to joined them in the chewing sticks business and stop depending on government work.
Meanwhile some residents in the region has patronized chewing stick than buying fluoride toothpaste due to economic crisis in the country.
The skyrocketing of the current price of the various fluoride toothpaste in the Ghana had made a lot of ghanaians to resort to the local chewing stick.
By Sarkodie Peprah/uniquenewsgh.com
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