Learn to Love Your Dentist
Contents Page
• Dental Care - Brushing Your Teeth - Clean Between Your Teeth - Control Food In Your Diet - Chewing Gum •
Activity Pack - Dot to Dot - Wordsearch - Crosswords - Colouring Pages
• Facts Page - Spot The Difference •
Dental Cavities •
Dental Quiz - True or False
Dental Care Brushing your teeth • Brush at least twice a day. Make sure you brush every surface of every tooth. To do this properly can take longer than you think. Most dentists would recommend around two minutes. • Use fluoride toothpaste to protect against decay. • Use a toothbrush with a small head and synthetic bristles. • Start at one side of your mouth and move round to the other side, brushing all the tooth surfaces thoroughly. • Pay particular attention to the gumline, angling the bristles into the crevice where the gums meet the teeth. • Replace your toothbrush every month. Clean between your teeth Dental floss removes plaque and food whihc is trapped in between, these are areas which a toothbrush cannot reach therefore is significant Control food in your diet Eating sugary food and drink encourages tooth decay, dont eat acidic food or drinks such as fizzy drinks or citrus friut juices between meals Chewing gum Having gum after a meal stimulates the production of saliva, which helps to neutralise plaque acid.
Activity Pack
Wordsearch
Breath Cavities Chew Cup Dental Surgeon Dentist Enamel Erosion Filling
Floss Fluoride Gingivitis Gumline Gums Molars Mouthwash Periodonal Root Canal
Smile Teeth Tooth Fairy Toothbrush Toothpaste Toothpick Whitening
Across 1. The doctor who looks at your teeth. 4. Where a smile is found. 5. To see your teeth, you____ your mouth 7. I like the ____ of ice crea,m 8. Sugarless gum is fun to ____ 10. ____ your teeth at least twice a day. 11. The ____machine takes pictures of teeth. 12. ____day it is important to take care of your teeth. 13. Teeth allow you to take a big ___ from an apple. 16. Another name for a test is-___ 18. Teeth help you to ____ food. 19. This tooth is located in the back of the mouth. 20. It is good to keep your teeth
Down 1. A dentist is a tooth ____ 2. This is used on a toothbrush to clean teeth 3. My ____ is also in my mouth. 6. The teeth I keep forever are called ____ teeth. 8. When a tooth has decay it is called a ____. 9. The ____ likes to leave a gift under your pillow when you lose a tooth. 10. These are the first teeth in the mouth then they come out for the permanent teeth. 14. This is what the dentist checks in your mouth. 15. The opposite of pull. 17. When something is no longer new, it is____.
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Facts Page • Oral cancer is a serious dental disease which has become more popular due to the poor dental hygiene. • The key factors to avoiding this is visit your dentist regularly and avoiding tobacco and sugary foods • As a fact you are meant to brush your teeth for at least three minutes long. • Use pea size amount of toothpaste when you are brushing your teeth. • Most children will have a full set of 20 milk teeth by the time they are three years old. When they reach five or six fall out making way for adult teeth. Adult teeth grows when you are over 10. Spot the six differences.
• Any of the last teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaw; the last of the permanent teeth to erupt is called the wisdom tooth. • The wisdom teeth don’t come through properly or at all, therefore it is usually removed. • There are three types of teeth, these are the incisors used for cutting and chopping food. Canine teeth which helps tear the food. Premolars which help crush the food and finally the molars are for mashing up the food • Part of the tooth that you can see above the gum is called the crown. This is covered in hard, shiny enamel. • This enamel is the hardest thing in the body and it protects the more sensitive inside parts of the tooth.
Dental Cavitites Cavities are lesions on the teeth. To put it in simple terms, they are holes on the teeth. Plaque and tartar Plaque is a sticky white film that is continuously formed on everybody’s teeth. It consists of food particles, bacteria etc. It is the main cause of all dental diseases. How are cavities formed? The sugar that we eat gets stuck on the surface of teeth in the form of plaque. There it degenerates by the action of bacteria and in this process acids are released. They attack tooth enamel and make it soft. After such attacks the enamel completely breaks down and a small cavity is formed. Do chocolates cause cavities? An foodstuff which contains a large amount of sugar can cause cavities. Sweets, chocolates, candies, biscuits etc. have a lot of sugar in them. Furthermore, they are very sticky and accumulate on the tooth surfaces. They therefore cause cavities. It is the local action of these sugary foodstuffs that cause, cavities if the sugars were to go directly into the stomach then there would be no cavities. Nowadays, the consumption of sugary foodstuffs has increased. An isolated bout of indulgence in sweets is of no consequence. It is repeated attacks of sweets on the tooth surface that cause cavities.
Dental Quiz 1. If your gums bleed, you have gum disease. True False 2. Gingivitis, an early form of gum disease caused by inadequate removal of plaque, is reversible. True False 3. Healthy teeth and gums reflect your body’s overall health. True False 4. Dentists recommend fluoride consumption for adults and children of all ages. True False
Make sure you brush twice a day!