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The dentist calls it…
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Adults say…
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Parents, please say to your child…
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Which problems do patients have?
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Cavity
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Hole in tooth
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You have a sick tooth.
You have sugar bugs in your tooth.
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Abscess
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Gum boil, swelling, infection
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For little kids: there is “owie” right here
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Fractured tooth
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Broken tooth
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Broken tooth
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What dentists do:
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Put mouth prop into mouth
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Bite block
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The dentist puts a tooth chair
Or tooth pillow in your mouth so you can rest your teeth on it.
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Give injection
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Give shot; use needle; poke;
injection
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Squirt some sleepy juice/water next to your tooth
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Rubber Dam
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Rubber dam
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The dentist puts a rain coat around your tooth to keep your face dry.
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Extraction
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Knock out
Yank
Pull
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Your tooth turned into an owie and we will get rid of the owie; Wiggle a tooth out;
Remove a sick tooth; Get ready for Tooth Fairy and Big Boy/girl teeth
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Prepare the tooth for a filling / cavity preparation
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Drilling
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Clean the sugar bugs out of your tooth;
Clean the sick part away
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Restoration (filling)
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filling
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White Star
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Sealants
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Sealants; coating of tooth; tooth gets painted
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We paint something on your tooth to make your tooth smooth and strong, so the sugar bugs cannot get into it.
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Pulpotomy
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Root canal;
Nerve
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Clean sick tooth and give it some medicine
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Stainless steel crowns
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Crowns; caps
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Tooth jewelry
Tooth baseball cap
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Make an impression
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Make an impression; make a form of the teeth
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We have some pudding and make a model of your teeth with it.
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Medicines dentists use:
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Nitrous oxide
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Gas
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Special air
Special perfume
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Nitrous oxide mask
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Gas mask
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Scuba mask
Airplane pilot mask
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Sedative
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Drug
Put you under
Put you to sleep
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Yummy medicine
Special juice
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Local anesthesia (numb)
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Novacaine; make you numb
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Sleepy juice
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Instruments dentists use:
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Suction
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Suction; vacuum
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vacuum
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Air / Water syringe
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Squirt water / air
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Wash and dry the tooth;
Mr. Wind
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Explorer
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Instrument; pick
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Tooth counter; some of your teeth are itchy and I scratch them with this.
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Scaler
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Scraper
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Tooth cleaner
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Curing light
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Light gun
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Tooth hair dryer
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Handpiece (high-speed)
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Drill, Cut
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Mr. Whistle
Super Fast Toothbrush
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Handpiece (low-speed)
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Drill, Cut
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Mr. Bumpy
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