Question

Dr Sharma: Cleaning of mouth is the first requirement of dental hygiene. If you don’t clean your mouth, tiny bits of food inside stick to the surface of your teeth and in the space between your teeth. Now germs feed on these food-particles that eventually eat up parts of the teeth too! They destroy the enamel coating of the teeth, and in the long run it leads to cavity.

1. What is the first requirement of dental hygiene?

2. What do the germs feed on?

3. What do the germs do?

Answer 1

1. Cleaning of mouth is the first requirement of dental hygiene.

2. The germs feed on the food particles stuck to the surface of the teeth and in the space between the teeth.

3. The germs destroy the enamel coating of the teeth and this leads to cavity.