Update #95: Writing Expedition ✍️, Monday - Health

Hello kids and parents community, today I will be participating in Monday topic of this contest about our health with the topic "The teeth, gums and the mouth", a very important part in the body.

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Have you ever stay for a day or days without brushing your teeth? How did you feel if you do. Care for the teeth is part of the personal hygiene as such it should be considered as a very vital thing.

Care Of The Teeth, Gum and Mouth

Taking good care of the teeth and gum is very important because
✓ Stong and healthy teeth are needed to chew and digest food well.

✓ Painful cavities(holes in the teeth caused by decay) and sore gum can be prevented by good tooth care.

✓ Decayed or rotten teeth caused by lack of cleanliness can lead to serious infection that may affect other part of the body.

To keep The Teeth And Gum Healthy

Avoid sweet

Eating many sweet (sugar cane, tea or coffee with sugar, pastry, soft or fizzy drinks like cola etc) rot the teeth quickly.

Brush the teeth

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Brush teeth well every dayg and always brush immediately after eating anything sweet. Start brushing your children's teeth as the teeth appear. Later, teach them how to brush their teeth by themselves, and watch to see that they do it right.

Include fluoride

Putting fluoride in the drinking water, using toothpaste that contain fluoride or directly on teeth will help to prevent cavities. It is advicable by some health expert to put fluoride onto children's teeth once or twice a year. And if the natural fluorides in the water has been tested and is found to be below the recommended level, so then be. Also most of the food from the sea that we eat contain much fluoride which is good for the teeth.

Do not bottle feed older babies

Once the baby get older, stop using bottle feeder in feeding him/her because continual sucking on this bottle, the baby's teeth in sweet liquid and can cause early decay and so, It is best not to bottle feed at all.

Brushing requirement

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• Toothpaste

• Brush

• Water

If you don't not have tooth brush

Used a twig of a tree by sharpening the end to clean between the teeth. Chew the other end and used the fiber as a brush.

Or tie a piece of rough towel around the end of a stick and use it as a toothbrush.

If you don't not have toothpaste

Make a tooth power by making salt and bicarbonate of soda in equal amount. To make it stick, wet the brush before putting it in the power. Salt with soda work as well as toothpaste for cleaning teeth. If you not have bicarbonate of soda, just use plain salt, even water alone is enough if you rub the teeth well.

To keep the teeth, gum and mouth clean, there's no specific time to brush, this should be done on regular basis and at least twice a day.

Inviting @joymm, @oasiskp and @josegonzalito