What Is The Tooth Fairy Essay

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Hey There, I’m Tommi the Toothbrush! I’m here to let you in on a little secret, the tooth fairy is very greedy and she wants to take all of your teeth so you can’t eat. Who wants me to teach them how to take care of their teeth so you can keep the tooth fairy’s greed hands off them? Alright here we go.

Plaque
So there is a soft sticky substance that doesn’t have color and forms in your mouth all the time. That stuff is called plaque! It’s not just on your teeth, it sticks to your tongue too! So plaque starts out when the saliva sticks to the teeth called acquired pellicle and two types of tiny bugs called bacteria, Lactobacillus and Streptococus stick to it. We’ll call them LB and SC, and they like to live in big groups called colonies inside the plaque which has the food that you eat, which they like eating too! Mixed with your saliva, the food you eat breaks down into sugars, and they eat it and produce waste that sits inside the plaque. Eww, right? But its easy to clean the plaque off if you brush and floss properly! But if you don’t it will harden, and become Calculus also called tartar, and that stuff is yellow, sometimes brown or black. It looks really gross. So make sure to brush your teeth and floss so it won’t get hard and nasty.

Plaque’s Role in Decay
When you eat, plaque forms as the bacteria, saliva and food debris all mix together stick to your teeth. The bacteria start eating the sugar that breaks down from the food, and they produce acid, starting an Acid Attack! During the acid attack, the pH in the mouth drops which makes the tooth’s protective cover, Enamel, weaker and some of it’s minerals dissolve or melt from the acid. This is called demineralization, because it’s losing minerals such as calcium and phospha...

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... a cosmetic agent, to freshen breath, but there are some mouth rinses that now provide therapeutic and even preventative benefits: such as introduction of fluoride and minerals to strengthen and remineralize teeth. Mouth rinses can cover hard to reach spots of the teeth and provide a vehicle for particles to be taken out. A third oral hygiene tool is the Floss Threader, a dental device that has a loop at one end and a stiffer and pointed end to be able to thread floss underneath orthodontic or restorative devices that do not allow for floss to freely pass between the contacts of teeth.

Nutrition
In addition to proper cleaning techniques, proper eat habits can contribute to a healthier dentition. As stated in the plaque formation section, plaque is forming all the time, and is bolstered in the presence of food debris. With more food debris for the bacteria to feed on

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