Keeping Your Teeth Healthy (1981)

[Music] all your life you need to take care of your teeth your dentist will help you you can learn about chewing from your dentist if if you could see yourself with x-ray eyes this is how it looks inside when you chew chewing is so important if you you had no teeth you wouldn't be able to digest and you should always chew your food very well it's very very important your dentist helps you take care of your teeth sometimes he uses a special light he wants to look carefully at each tooth your front teeth are for cutting here are the incizors the incizors are for tearing food apart so that you can get it into your mouth in smaller pieces then there are cuspids or canine teeth and they're the pointed sharp ones way in the back are your biggest teeth the MERS your dentist can see them and sometimes he uses a model to show them to you the MERS are for grinding the food up into little tiny pieces so that they can go down and be digested in your tummy and when they all work together they go like this and they grind back and forth and back and forth your teeth are wonderfully shaped so that you can bite and chew everyone should go to the dentist twice a year to see that all goes [Music] well you kept them very clean for me I'm very proud of you those are nice MERS you're getting your six-year MERS even though you're seven Sometimes they come in then but they look super and they're very healthy many dentists help keep teeth healthy by treating them with fluoride Cory this is fluide and it helps to make your teeth hard and resists tooth decay and we put it on like this so that it'll soak into the teeth the fluoride helps to prevent the acid from getting inside the teeth and making holes which are cavities another important reason to visit your dentist your teeth are changing wow this is fantastic look at that all those new teeth the dentist looks at your baby teeth they get loose and are replaced by new permanent teeth here's one that's loose and here's another one that's loose when you lose those baby teeth the big teeth will come up underneath so the baby teeth are very important for the big teeth they keep the space for them and they they let you eat and here's one that's very very loose these are baby teeth that will be coming out this model shows permanent teeth above and below how they push through the gums to replace the baby teeth you should keep your permanent teeth for the rest of your life and here's one on the top this is just coming in they're gorgeous teeth Dana all your life you need good strong teeth to chew your food but food clings to teeth that's why you brush your teeth the dentist has something special he has a solution which works like magic when he puts this Solution on your teeth after a few minutes it shows what you usually cannot [Music] see deposits of acid called plaque plaque comes from leftover particles of food food where's the plaque where the blue dyes are that's where the plaque on your teeth is and when you brush you're going to get rid of the plaque and get it all off your teeth in all those areas well especially around the gum lines you've got to brush very carefully along all of the gum [Music] lines and then when you visit your dentist special equipment and paste can make your teeth super [Music] clean eating fresh and nourishing foods helps you to have strong teeth and gums and avoid too many sweet foods and soft drinks sugar makes acid in your mouth here's a superf food take a good chomp out of it good one that'll keep your teeth so clean it's a natural tooth cleaner won't hurt any of your teeth and it'll make them long shiny and keep them bright your teeth are made for you to chew good food so that you can swallow easily digest and stay healthy all of your life keep your teeth clean and watch what you [Music] chew and your teeth will be as wonderful as the rest of you [Music] all [Music]