I observed my sister eating popcorn for this assignment. She began by taking a few pieces of popcorn, approximately 6 pieces, opened her mouth and put them in her mouth; this is the initiation of the oral-preparatory phase. Throughout this period, there is sensory input of the taste, and texture of the popcorn while saliva is also aiding in the breakdown of the food itself. There are moments where food is shifted to one side of the cheek (buccal cavity) to allow for room to chew other pieces. The
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Oral manifestations of migratory stomatitis, or geographic tongue, may be associated with inherited genetic factors, immunological abnormalities, trepidation, and several other disorders including (but not limited to) psoriasis and diabetes (Jainkittivong). Geographic tongue involves lesions located non-specifically on ‘the tip, lateral borders, and dorsum of the tongue’ (Jainkittivong). These lesions frequently appear as ‘multifocal, circinate, irregular erythematous patches bounded by a slightly
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mind quietly shout, "I deserve health and happiness!" Just before you are ready to open your eyes, begin to stimulate that positive energy that is a smile by recalling something you enjoy. Something that makes you feel good. Let the corners of your mouth turn up. Smile. Send this smiling energy into every bone and every organ and every nerve and every cell in your body. Now take that smiling energy
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wider opening into the nose. A cleft palate is a split in the roof of the mouth. This leaves a hole between the nose and the mouth. Sometimes a cleft lip and cleft palate occur together. Cleft lip and cleft palate are very common and occur in about 1 or 2 of every 1,000 babies born in the United States each year. Cleft lip and cleft palate are birth defects. This means they happen while a baby is developing. Normally, the mouth and nose of a baby develop between the first 6 and 12 weeks of growth inside
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Next, the mouth is a collection of the teeth, gums, hard palate, soft palate, tongue, tonsil, ulva, lips, et cetera. The mouth is a premier environment for bacteria to live because it has a warm climate. Also, when the hosts eats, they receive an appropriate amount of nutrients to survive. Following, to determine how many bacteria are in the mouth, researchers have measured the weight of all the bacteria on the teeth. The weight of the mentioned bacteria is 10 mg. But since the teeth are only 1/20
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warp, is well adjusted, does not move in the mouth, which may cause injury, follow our advice! How to clean your denture a denture Clean a denture Spend daily on the denture a soft and gentle toothbrush with a toothpaste specially designed for this purpose. These points are important because a toothpaste for natural teeth and a brush too hard can accelerate the wear
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reading. When they finish a line, they move the card down and repeat the process. • Give the text the finger: Along with the card, have your child follow their reading with their finger, engaging a tactical learning style. • Read out loud or mouth the words: Again, another way to engage verbal processing. Many students don't need to literally talk out load -- mouthing the words serves the same end. • Keep moving: As always, fidgeting is good for the brain. Keep them moving, to keep them
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Sonny Not So Different At All In Nacirema, stuffing a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth along with specific powders of magic is done to prevent from: losing teeth, any bleeding of the gums, shrinking of the jaws, losing friends and lovers. Traditions that are practiced within certain communities are everyday normal daily activities but to those outside of the community within, see them to be strange or abnormal, but in reality, they actually share a lot in common
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Washington cut the tree down. Miner talks about the need for our bodies to be "perfect" in order to attract friends and mates. He says that the Nacirema "perform a mouth-rite" every day because the mouth is the source of all things good and evil (kissing, talking, eating, decay) this is true everything that we do involves our mouths. He then goes on to talk about our need to stay young. I believe that our society worries too much about how old they look. Our society is always looking for new ways
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