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Hello, South Williamsport area School district.

Fifth graders.

My name is Amanda, and I'm Samantha.

And we're from the Pen College General Hygiene Program.

And we're coming to you two guys today and we're

going to talk about healthy foods and non healthy foods

and how they affect your teeth.

All right, so we have a slide right here, and

we're going to talk to you about what we eat

is important, as you can see.

What? This little girl eating the apple.

She's choosing a healthy choice of eating an apple and

maybe that kid to the rights, not making the best

choice of eating that chocolate cake.

Okay. Uh huh.

Yeah. So, like I said, the foods we eat are

important to our health.

It is important to understand what unhealthy and healthy foods

can do to our bodies and to our teeth.

Mhm. And right here, I'm just going to blow this

up so you guys can see it nice and clear.

This is the food guide pyramid.

So as you can see on the food guide pyramid

here on the bottom, where it's nice and large, these

are the foods that you should be eating.

The most because they're the best for our health.

And then as this pyramids get skinnier and skinnier at

the top, these are the food you should be eating

them least stuff.

And that includes, like soda and sugary cakes and Candies,

stuff that we just know.

It's not good for our teeth, right?

So for this slide, we would just like to help

you guys understand that each food that we eat in

liquid is paired into a category of Kariya genic and

non cardiogenic.

Carry a genic means that this food or drink contributes

to the start of cavities.

While non cardiogenic foods do not contribute to the start

of cavities, I have a few pictures of foods here

that I would like you all to think about and

put each of these foods into a category.

So either so the grapes, the bread, the water, the

soda and the ice cream.

So for the grapes dot would be considered a carrier

genic food.

They are a healthy food choice, but however, they have

a natural source of sugar and are also acidic, which

can be have a negative effect on our teeth.

Read as well as carry a genic due to the

breakdown of carbohydrates, it breaks down into sugars, which sugars

we know are not good for our teeth.

Water, on the other hand, is non cardiogenic and what

are contributes to a healthy mouth.

Soda, we all know, has a lot of sugar, and

we should really limit this in our diet.

Ice cream is the hardest part.

We all love ice cream, but this is something that

we should limit in our diet as well.

Just because of the large amount of sugars that it

has now, we're going to discuss acid production.

We talked about how grapes can be acidic and how

that takes a negative effect on our teeth, and most

foods also have acid in it due to the sugars,

so liquids clear the mouth within 20 minutes.

So if you were to drink a soda each sip

within 20 minutes, it would take to clear.

But the thing with that is that if you take

one sip, the clock restarts with your next sip.

And with foods, it's the same thing, but with 40

minutes. So if you take a bite into a piece

of cake, it takes 40 minutes for it to clear,

but the next bite.

If that's within the next two minutes, it restarts the

clock and then it starts up 40 minutes again.

Our goal for a healthy mouth is to have an

acid production.

Time for the day is 16 minutes now.

We would like everyone to get out there one day

food diary and calculate their acid production time with the

information that we just gave you.

Given that carry a genic foods clear within 40 minutes

and cryogenic liquids clear within 20 minutes.

Now that we've talked about the foods we eat and

how they contribute to our dental health, we would also

like to go over how to have a healthy mouth

due to home care, which is brushing and flossing.

Everyone should be flossing and brushing every day two times

brushing daily and flossing.

One time before bed, Amanda and I are going to

show you the proper way to brush and flaws, which

will be most effective to prevent cavities and have a

healthy mouth.

Do you want to start with Awesome?

Sure. So this is our cool mouth model we have

here, and it's really cool.

The teeth actually come out, but they go right back

in. So I'm gonna show you how you should be

flossing your teeth right here.

I just have some regular flaws.

There are a lot of different flaws that you can

buy. Um, if you go to your guardian mom or

Dad, they would be able to help you get different

types of floss picks to.

And so what you would do with the regular floss.

I'm going to show you the proper way to do

it, and it can be hard.

So if you ever need help, make sure that you

reach out and you ask help from your guardian mom

or dad or even your school hygienist, Mrs.

Hicks. There's also YouTube videos out there, too, if you

are interested in looking that up.

So first, what you do is you get a very

nice long piece of loss, and then you wrap this

around your middle fingers nice and loosely again.

This takes practice, so if it's hard at first, that's

completely normal.

Then you're going to use your pointer finger and your

thumb, and you are going to wrap the floss around

your pointer finger and thumb and what you do is

when you put it in between the tooth.

Here, you make a C shape around that tooth just

like this.

You want to make sure you make a C shape

around that tooth and you go up and down the

tooth about two or three times and you do to

the other side to.

But the thing is, now that piece of false is

all dirty with all your plaque and germs, so you

have to rotate that flaw.

So you get a nice, clean piece each and every

time, and then you do the next surface.

Here, make sure you do not go up and down

because you're not getting all the plaque out.

You want to make sure that you make that C

shape go up and down, and then the other side

to and again practice.

Take practice makes perfect when it comes to flossing.

And now I'm going to demonstrate the modified bass technique

for brushing.

This is the most effective way of brushing and has

been scientifically proven to eliminate a plaque biofilm from the

surfaces. They're a proper amount.

So what I want you to do is start in

the most post most back part of your mouth.

Either the talk, the bottom or either side, and I

want you to start with an angle of 45 degree

angle. I'll show you this way like this towards the

gums and brush over two or three teeth back and

forth, about like, 10 times.

And then when you're ready to move on, we want

you to go down and then we want to overlap.

So no surfaces are missed, and then we just want

to keep doing that as we go across your teeth.

And the perfect way to do this is also to

play your favorite song or set a timer.

Have mom or dad or guardian set your timer so

it ensures that you're brushing for two minutes and you

just want to keep going and overlapping and doing that

across all surfaces of your teeth.

We also don't want to forget about the inside of

our teeth because that touches food, too.

We want to do the same thing that I just

showed you, but on the inside and roll down, you're

doing that angle and then you're rolling down.

And then when you get to your front teeth on

the inside.

We're just going to kind of brush like this.

This really helps get in between the gums and also

cleans off the teeth in a better way.

Because if you were to brush like this, sometimes our

mouths are too tiny for the toothbrush to fit, and

it doesn't really contact the teeth as well.

Yeah, so then you just keep going with that angle

and rolling down.

And we don't want to forget about our biting surfaces

either. And you can just brush that, like, normal.

And you would repeat that for the bottom arch as

well. And don't forget to brush the roof of your

mouth slightly and your tongue.

That is very important for home care.

Mm hmm.

Where to go.

Right. So what we want you to remember is to

always make healthy food choices.

Remember to brush your teeth two times a day for

at least two minutes each time in the morning and

at night time.

And to remember to floss at least one time a

day before bedtime.

You can always refer back to this video.

It will be online if you have any questions.

Also, Mrs takes your school dental hygienist is always there.

And it's so helpful and has so much knowledge on

this topic.

We hope everyone will continue to make healthy food choices

and help have a healthy, healthy and happy round.

Thank you.

Yeah. This is our the, um uh, thank you.

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