Oral Hygiene provides tips for proper dental care including brushing teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste, flossing daily to remove food and fight bad breath, using mouthwash to keep breath fresh, and seeing the dentist every year for cleanings and checkups. It also notes that cavities occur when bacteria causes tooth decay, braces may be needed for crooked teeth, and tongue scrapers help remove bacteria for fresher breath.

1. Oral Hygiene
Clean teeth are happy
teeth!

2. dentist

3. Brush your teeth twice a day with a
toothbrush and toothpaste.
Brush up and down and in a circular
motion, not side to side.

4. Change your toothbrush when it gets
old.

5. Use dental floss every day.
Flossing fights bad breath
and protects your teeth
and gums.

6. Use mouth wash.
Mouthwash
keeps your
breath
smelling fresh.

7. cavity
A cavity is
when
bacteria
makes a
hole in your
teeth.
It can be
painful.

8. Get a dental cleaning every year.

9. If you don’t brush, you will get tartar.

10. If you have crooked teeth, you may
want to get braces.

11. toothache
If your tooth hurts, you
have a toothache.

12. Use a tongue scraper
Scrape the
food and
bacteria off of
your tongue.
It can cause
bad breath.

13. Drilling a cavity

14. Questions
• Who should we see if we have a toothache?
• How often should we get our teeth cleaned?
• How often should we brush our teeth?
• What does a tongue scraper do?
• What helps us clean between our teeth?
• What liquid can clean our mouth?
• What should we get if our teeth are crooked?