Let me see your teeth!

  • Responsibility
  • Initiative in hygiene
  • Control of illness risk

The teacher talks to the children:

Who knows what a dentist is? Well, a dentist is a teeth doctor.

Going to the dentist is a very important thing because he/she checks if our teeth are healthy and clean. If we don't care for our teeth they will become sick and we will feel a lot of pain.

How can we care for our teeth?

We shouldn't eat a lot of sweets and candies, because they have a big amount of sugar that is loved by a very small germ that causes cavities. If these germs appear in our teeth they will make holes in them; and that hurts a lot.

We also have to brush or teeth after eating. Show me how you brush your teeth (the index finger will be the toothbrush).

When you go to the dentist's you are sat in a big armchair that is very funny because it goes up and down. Besides we seem famous people, because they focus a very big light on us to see our mouth full of teeth and molars; perhaps they will take a picture of our teeth to see if there are some of those germs called "caries" living inside our mouth. If they find any the dentist will eject them; he/she will also cover the small hole with a paste called "filling" and... that's all. But again we don't have to forget to brush our teeth after the meals and before going to bed.

DON'T FORGET TO SMILE SO THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE SUCH CLEAN TEETH!

Print supplementary material (click to open in a new window) and give it to the children. Each one of them will have to observe and cross out the ill molar.

 

 


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