Lesson video

Hello, I'm Mr. Whitehead.

This is the RSHE Health Intervention Basic Health Unit.

Today we're going to be looking at dental care and how we can look after our teeth.

Okay, let's get started.

So, to successful to complete this lesson, you'll need the following items, a paper or a note pad and a pen or a pencil.

There'll be a few tasks that you will need to complete during the lesson and you may want to write some notes down, as we go for the information sections.

So the agenda of this lesson, already you should have completed the intro quiz.

We're then going to look at some key words, we're then going to look at sugar and the impacts on our teeth.

Based on that will then look at dental cleaning and hygiene and in the end, once we finish the lesson, you will complete the exit quiz.

Let's now take a look at some key words that you'll need to know throughout this lesson.

So the first word is plaque and plaque is a sticky deposit on teeth in which bacteria grows.

Will be looking at this more detail throughout the lesson.

Tooth decay is when our teeth rot or decompose to the action of bacteria and fungi.

Okay, in a moment, I'm going to ask you to pause the video and write down as many foods as you can think of, that are going to keep our teeth healthy.

Now these might be from different food groups and we need to think about what might keep our teeth healthy.

Okay, pause the video now and when you're ready to continue, hit the virtual button and we'll go through some ideas.

Welcome back, so let's take a look at some healthy foods for our teeth.

The first one is yoghourt and cheese and this is part of the direct section of the eat well guide.

And these are good because they contain a lot of calcium which strengthen our teeth.

Nuts also contain a lot of calcium and vitamins and minerals which keep our teeth nice and strong and leafy greens so like spinach and broccoli, these can keep our teeth nice and healthy by providing vitamins and minerals and giving us an extra coating of enamel which keeps our teeth and prevents any type of decay and plaque from building up on them.

Let's now have a look at the sugar and the impacts on our teeth.

So plaque which we looked in our key words, develops when sugars are left on our teeth frequently.

And when left, plaque can dissolve the enamel which is like a layer of protection on our teeth.

And this can lead to small holes in our teeth called cavities.

And as you can see on the image on the right of the teeth, the yellow sections on the teeth is where the plaque is starting to dissolve the enamel.

And this is when we have a lot of sugar in our diet and we don't brush them enough.

Gum disease and gum disease is very common in adults.

And this is just a build up of bacteria in our teeth and gums that over time we've left and we've not brushed properly to ensure, that we're getting all the plaque and any bacteria off our teeth and gums And the side effects of this include, bleeding, gums, soreness, swelling and very bad breath.

Okay, based on this statement, we're going to decide what we think, it is true or false.

So cavities in our teeth, are good things, do we think that is true or false? Have a little think about this one, before we continue with the lesson.

Okay, let's have a think and have a look at the answer.

Cavities in our teeth are good things that is in fact false.

Cavities are small holes, in our teeth, caused by plaque and decaying by eating foods, such as sugars that are going to cause the enamel to break down in our teeth.

Now that we've looked at the impacts of sugar and other foods on our teeth, we're going to look at how we can keep our teeth clean and healthy.

So it's really important, that we keep up with regular tooth brushing.

And we can do this by using fluoride toothpaste twice a day.

So the fluoride toothpaste gives our teeth an extra layer of protection throughout the day, fighting away any plaque that may build up, from our teeth.

It's really important that we brush our teeth for at least two minutes each time and that should be done twice a day.

All surfaces of your teeth should be covered and you should even be doing your tongue.

Once you've finished with your brushing, don't rinse your mouth with water, just spit it all out.

So if you rinse your mouth with water, all that does is takes the fluoride off the teeth and takes away that protection that the fluoride toothpaste provides.

And there's another type of brushing and cleaning that we can do for our teeth and that's called inter dental cleaning.

And this can be done to get in between the gaps in our teeth that a normal toothbrush just couldn't get to.

So one way that we can do is dental flossing and this can only be used to remove plaque and food in the gaps of our teeth.

And another way is interdental brushing and that's just an alternative way of getting in between the gaps in our teeth and our gums to make sure that we don't have a build up of plaque and bacteria that can have harmful effects on our teeth.

Now, based on the information that we've just gone through together, we're going to answer this question.

It's so important to brush our teeth twice a day but how long should we spend on them each time? Is it one minute, two minutes, three minutes or five minutes? Have a little think about this question and we'll go for the answer.

And the answer is two minutes.

We should spend two minutes, twice a day, brushing our teeth.

And between that, we can use interdental cleaning, so, should use dental floss and interdental brushes.

Most foods contain some kind of sugar in some form but there is lots of foods that we have half sugar that we just don't expect to find it.

For example, cereals, fruit juices, these contain lots of sugars and the apple is baked with components so that consumers like ourselves, crave more of it and enjoy the taste of that product.

And there are certain types of different hidden sugars that might be found in these foods.

And these include different syrups, honeys and a chemical sugar called dextrose.

And when we're checking for these on the labels of foods and if we go to the back on the nutritional value part of a product, it will tell us how much in grammes and usually a percentage, of our daily recommended amount of sugar is in this product.

And we can check this, on the back of the product just to make sure that we're not consuming too much and to ensure, one that it's not too bad for our health and diet and two, for our teeth to make sure that our teeth don't start to decay.

And so it's really important that we check for these hidden sugars.

We're now going to have a game of higher or lower.

So I'm going to show you a food and I'm going to show you another food and you're going to decide whether you think it is higher in sugar or lower in sugar.

Okay, so let's start with a bagel, just a standard average bagel.

First of all, how many teaspoons of sugar do we think is in this item? Let's go, eight teaspoons, in an average bagel of sugar In your first item you need to decide whether it is higher in sugar or lower in sugar is a banana.

Three seconds to decide, three, two, one.

It's actually lower in a banana, still quite high in terms of sugar, these are natural sugars though and this is six teaspoons of sugar.

Okay, our next item is a Blueberry Muffin.

Do we think it is higher or lower in sugar? Three, two, one.

It's higher, 7.

5 teaspoons of sugar in a blueberry muffin.

Okay, let's move on to the final section of our lesson.

So one of your final tasks, just before you do the exit quiz is to create an information leaflet for primary school pupils, about the importance of cleaning their teeth.

And so many things that you might want to include in this information leaflet are, what food does to our teeth, so think about teeth plaque ,rotting and cavities which of course a small holes in our teeth, the dangers of gum disease, think about the symptoms and what might happen to our teeth and gums. How to brush our teeth and what interdental cleaning is.

Now once you've completed this information leaflet, you can resume the video and we can head the end of the lesson.

But before that, you now need to pause the video and complete your information leaflet for primary school pupils.

Okay, hit the pause button and when you're ready to continue, resume the lesson.

Welcome back, thank you so much for engaging in the lesson today on dental care.

If you would like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Twitter tagging @ Oak National and # Learn with Oak.

Thank you so much yet again for joining me today for this lesson, I hope to see you all again soon, take care.