Lesson Instructions for MouthWise Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web (MOHSotW)
The theme for Lesson 6 is “GarGar The Dentist”
Oral Health Books ‘n C.D. ‘All About A Smile’. Children’s oral health education at it’s best ! 10 beautiful MouthWise Oral Health Books, number 2 of our oral health manuals, and one MouthWise Oral Health C.D., “4 Your Smile 2 Shine”. Oral health educators, GarGar The Dentist on Page 12 of the last of the Visits to GarGar The Dentist “thanks SmileShine and all his friends who have helped during these 10 visits”. Images of GarGar The Dentist, together with all his friends, appear only on that page. On the back page of every book in the Set of 10 Visits to GarGar The Dentist Books, is a children’s cartoon with GarGar The Dentist and some of these friends. GarGar The Dentist hopes that all children love his friends just as much as GarGar loves them. Oral health educators, GarGar’s friends are wonderful educational tools to use to educate children to use mouth paste and a mouth treater to treat your mouth, your teeth gums and tongue, and to learn everything they need to know 4 Your Smile 2 Shine.
Children’s smiles are the key to their future. I ask everyone involved in children’s education, especially in children’s health education and in children’s home education to be more concerned with and to take more responsibility for children’s oral health education. The smiling faces of primary school children in a primary school, indeed in all primary schools and K-12 schools, are still being adversely affected by easily preventable diseases such as bad breath, bleeding gums, holes in teeth, plaque on teeth, plaque on gums, swollen gums, scale on teeth. Every tooth and the gum will stay healthy forever if given the chance. The names ‘tooth brush’ and ‘tooth paste’ contribute to many oral diseases such as plaque build up and sore gums because they send wrong messages to children. Our better oral hygiene instruction, our correct nomenclature and our lessons in oral healthcare, not just in hygiene, will banish plaque, tooth decay, tooth abscess and stop bad breath forever. Please help children learn how to stop plaque, arrest decay, to take better care of the beautiful things in their mouth; their teeth, gums and tongue. Everyone can eliminate all oral diseases forever. With a simple ‘swish’, they are easily preventable diseases! I hope you find these Lesson Instructions helpful.
“The MouthWise™ Oral HealthCare School-on-the-Web”
Lesson 6
Hello and Welcome, Oral HealthCare Educators,
I will always remind you at each ‘Visit’ that oral health is an inheritance. Oral disease, on the other hand, is an infliction, usually a self-infliction, and usually the result of neglect and or of lack of knowledge and understanding and or of poor advice. It is absolutely true that the common oral diseases, tooth decay, gum disease and bad breath are easily preventable.
Throughout these 10 “Visits to GarGar The Dentist” we want to give children information, advice and instructions, tailored especially for them to be able to understand, which will make them knowledgeable in all aspects of oral disease prevention. We want children to become self-motivated to prevent oral disease throughout their lifetime. The key to their oral health is their self-motivation to prevent oral disease and that is our goal!
Web-Lesson 6 Objective :
In “Visit 6 to GarGar The Dentist” our strategy is to give children information on the affects of plaque on gums. On how plaque can undesirably affect gums to cause gingivitis. On how plaque may build-up to form hard scale on teeth.
To learn some simple facts about gums and gingivae, the role of plaque in gingivitis and the formation of scale.
Web-Lesson 6 MouthWise Book:
“ The MouthWise™ Oral HealthCare Manual 2, Visit 6 to GarGar The Dentist”,
ISBN: 1-920712-07-0
This MouthWise book is available from our Online Store.
Web-Lesson 6 Topic :
“ A Plaque Attack on Gums ”
Pre-Web-Lesson 6 Chit-Chat :
Look at the Cover Page:
Smileshine’s advice is that the best treat is treating. Look up your dictionary to find the different meanings of the word treat.
The Treat Stamp also suggests treating to leave behind helpful X.Y.Z.
If you have looked at your dictionary you will better understand what you are doing when you treat your mouth the first time (cleaning), and more importantly what you are doing when you treat your mouth the second time ( applying protective X.Y.Z.).
Page 2 :
Read what my friend Croc-O-Smile has to say. Croc-O-Smile is getting just a little bit worried about X.Y.Z. hiding in his mouth.
Page 3 :
PadPaw really loves to draw doesn’t he ? GarGar The Dentist must have seen some of these beautiful drawings but warns you that all things that may look beautiful, may not really be good for you in your mouth.
Ruby Roo is very wise to take very special care of her gums.
Page 4 :
Booksie Owl realizes that plaque attacks on her gums can be very very harmful.
GarGar says it is better to learn just a little bit each day.Is that what you have been doing? For you it might be a little bit each week perhaps ? The important thing is to do what is best for you.
Page 5 :
On the top of the page GarGar The Dentist tells you to imagine you are drawing your gums as you do drawings of plaque on gums.
KookaMum is a very wise mum. I do hope you have lots of fresh fruit.
Please read the Treat Stamp very carefully. What you do your treating with is very important
Page 6 :
It is very important to understand what GarGar The Dentist has told you. That plaque build-up and plaque monkey business will only happen if YOU let it happen.
Page 7 :
Now as a special exercise you should be able to make a list of the healthy foods you should put into your mouth. Would you like to do that now ?.
Web-Lesson 6 Text :
Read the text on Page 8. Read it several times to make certain you understand it.
Carefully study the drawings on Page 9 and Page 10
Notice particularly how the gingivae become red and swollen when they are unhealthy, but are pink and firm when healthy. Look at your own gums.
Some children let scale form on their teeth because they do not treat properly and their dentist has to remove it !
Post Web-Lesson 6 Chit-Chat :
For more important information and advice read :
Page 11 : Treat Stamp
Page 12 : GarGar’s MouthWise LifeWise Tips
Page 13 : i-Treat Club News with Mini and Munchie the Koalas, Grinny Squirrel and Ben Bilby, Wally Web, In and Fo.
Now It’s Fun & Exercise Time for Web-Lesson 6
#1. Drawing Exercises
Firstly with your fingers in your mouth :
This exercise will teach you where to put the bristles on your gums to make sure you get rid of ALL the plaque from your gums.
You are going to draw on your gums with your fingers.
1.a. Drawing Exercise 1 Visit 6, Page 11, # 2.
1.b. Drawing Exercise 2 Visit 6, Page 11, # 3
1.c. Drawing Exercise 3 Visit 6, Page 11, # 4
Secondly in your drawing book :
Look at the drawings on Pages 9 and 10 before these next exercises.
1.d. Draw some healthy teeth and gums
1.e. Draw your gums when they have gingivitis.
1.f. Draw some scale stuck to your teeth when your gums have
gingivitis.
#2. Verbal, Reading or Writing Exercises:
2.a. What does Croc-O-Smile say on Page 2 ?
2.b. What does Ruby Roo say on Page 3 ?
2.c. What does Booksie Owl say on Page 4 ?
2.d. What does it say KookaMum gives Kooksie instead of things with lots of sugar on Page 5 ?
What is the special advice on GarGar’s Treat Stamps this Visit ?
2.e. on the Stamp on Page 1 ?
2.f. on the Stamp on Page 5 ?
2.g. on the Stamp on Page 11 ?
#3. Fun Questions Page 7
3.a. How many times can you count the word ‘GUMS’ in ths Visit ?
3.b. How many times can you find the name ‘GarGar’ in this Visit ?
#4. GarGar’s MouthWise LifeWise Tips on Page 12
What are GarGar’s tips for this Visit:
4.a. What should you look into when you treat your mouth ?
4.b. What should you never do when you treat?
4.c. Should you treat your top teeth first ?
4.d. Should you treat your bottom teeth first ?
#5. Visit 6 Test on Page 14
When you have correctly answered all of these questions you will receive your Certificate of Achievement for Visit 6.
ANSWERS: Answers for Web-Lesson 6
2.a. After every meal I imagine all of those X.Y.Z. trying to hide in my mouth. On my teeth, on my gums and on my tongue.
2.b. I take very special care of my gums.
2.c. No! No! GarGar ! I never want plaque attacks on my gums.
2.d. Lots of fresh fruit.
2.e. Treat 1 to 9 to leave helpful X.Y.Z. on your teeth, gums and tongue.
2.f. Curley bristles do not treat properly and like non-rounded tips, may damage your gums
2.g. Treat with soft, straight, rounded bristles for your best whistles.
4.a. A mirror
4.b. Treat top and bottom teeth and gums together.
4.c. No. Only if you choose to. It does not matter which to do first.
4.d. No. Only if you choose to.
Answers for Visit 6 Test, Page 14
ORAL QUESTIONS :
1. Gingiva
2. Gingivitis
3. Ulcers
TREATING MOUTH QUESTIONS
1 Gums
2. Plaque
3. Gingiva
4. Gingivitis
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