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From YouTube: Open Wide Dental Program

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Join Holly Carter and her puppets for an interactive story time for children. She will explain the importance of keeping your teeth healthy, and the proper methods of upkeep. This program was presented by the Smart Start Dental Program.

*UPDATE*
The Smart Start Dental Program is NO LONGER offered. For assistance with your dental needs, you can contact your family dentist or the Western North Carolina Community Health Services at (828) 285-0622

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All right good morning, boys and girls, thank you for coming to the puppet show. Our puppet friends are here today to teach you boys and girls about taking care of your teeth. If you have teeth, raise your hand, everybody has teeth. Awesome! Okay! If you brought your teeth with you today, smile and, let me see, yay everybody remembered their teeth. Of course, we remember our teeth. That's just a silly joke!

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Okay, all right! I have another question: if you have big teeth in the back open wide- and let me see wow, you guys have really big teeth, impressive, all right. Well, that's what the name of our show is open wide and you guys are open and wide so well. Okay, I would like for someone to raise their hand and I'll call on you how about you right here in the blue shirt? What do you do each day to take care of your teeth?

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You brush your teeth, fabulous. We all have to brush our teeth every day, right, okay, every day, all right! Can you boys and girls quietly show me on your fingers how many times each day you think you need to brush your teeth? How many times do we need to brush them?

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Okay, I see lots of answers. We need to be sure to at least brush our teeth two times every day. Can you, boys and girls hold up two fingers for me fabulous we need to brush every morning time and every night time can we say that together morning, time night time, okay, if we can brush more than that like three or four or five times like you guys were saying, that's fabulous, but on busy days for sure two times, okay, all right, I'm gonna bring out my first puppet friends. They are bucky and betty beaver.

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Now I need to tell you guys. Sometimes bucky gets into a little bit of mischief.

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I'm sure you guys never do, though, right I didn't think so.

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We are beavers.

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That's me: our teeth are real good cause. We brush like.

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Your hair looks real neat and smooth down today.

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Yeah, I know cause I brushed it all over, even in the back see.

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How did you reach way back there.

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I used my toothbrush. Oh.

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No, you should never brush your hair with your toothbrush bucky, it will mess it up.

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Well, I pulled all the hairs out of the brush with my paws no.

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No, you should never ever touch the bristles, which is the brush part with your fingers or paws. You get germs on your toothbrush.

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Oh okay, I won't do that. No.

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uh Betty I got to go brush my teeth very good.

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Bucky, because you should brush your teeth at least two times a day.

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I know, but since I can't use my toothbrush anymore for my teeth, can I borrow yours? No, you may not, but I thought we're supposed to share bucky.

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It's good to share stuff like your toys, but not your toothbrush. You'll spread germs. My toothbrush is for my mouth and your toothbrush is for your mouth.

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But how am I gonna brush my teeth? Betty we.

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Are going right now and get you a new toothbrush boogie.

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All right uh betty can we sing our song as we go. Oh sure,.

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Bucky, a two, a one, two and three: we.

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You see, I am betty, he's.

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Like we should, they are healthy and strong, as can be.

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Okay, thank you bucky and betty all right. I told you boys and girls that sometimes bucky gets into a little bit of mischief. What did he brush his hair with a toothbrush? Are we supposed to brush our hair with our toothbrush?

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No you're? Absolutely right. We should only brush our teeth with our toothbrush. It's important that we keep our toothbrush clean. So after we use it on our teeth, only we should wash it well under the clean water and it should stand yes after you use the toothpaste. It should stand up to dry. We shouldn't lay it on the counter, wet and yucky, either. Okay, how about sharing our toothbrush? Should we share our toothbrush with our brothers or sisters or friends?

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You are right and very good listeners. We should not share our toothbrush with anyone. Okay, because then we would be sharing germs. We don't want to share germs. Do we? No? So my toothbrush is for my mouth only and your toothbrush is for your mouth only now how about our toys and other things should we share those?

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Yes, you sound like great friends. Okay, my next puppet friend is a cheerleader. Her name is.

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In my chair, I'm gonna say how to brush your teeth each day. The toothbrush should be your very own, not one you borrowed as alone this brush is not for your hair. Keep it clean, give it care not spreading. Germs. Is our plan, so don't touch the bristles with the fingers on your hand. One more thing I want to shout: don't swallow the toothpaste spit it out, brush your teeth two times a day and you will get a big hooray, rah rah, rah, rah, rah rah.

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All right, thank you, miss ruby, miss ruby, said. If we brush our teeth two times a day, then we get a big hooray. So can you hold up two fingers now? If you're gonna brush your teeth two times every day, give yourself a hooray, you ready, hooray, good job all right and what did miss ruby say that we need to do with our toothpaste. After we finish brushing our teeth.

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Good listeners. We need to spit it out. Toothpaste is very good for our teeth, but not so good for our tummies. So we want to spit it out. Then we can be a big helper and rinse the sink out. Okay, all right man. Yes, we can have another puppet friend. Her name is molly moo moo and molly moo moos wore her good food, bad food hat, she's gonna talk to us about what foods we need to move out of our.

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Move their foods out of the way for your teeth: they're, not okay, eat good foods. You won't go wrong. They make your teeth healthy and strong.

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I'm molly, moo moo! I wore my good food. Bad food hat today shows you some good and bad foods. For your tooth now darling.

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You need to move out of your mouth candy and sweets like chocolate, chip cookies, because they are bad for your teeth, but you take green beans, chicken, cheese, fruit like apples and bananas. Why? It's perfectly all right for you to sink your teeth to them anytime, because they are good foods and do drain milk cause your teeth, love my milk!

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Well, I'm gonna move on cause. Talking about all this good food has made me so hungry, bye, y'all,.

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All right, thank you, molly moo-moo molly, I sure do molly moo-moo said that we need to move out of our mouth sweet, treats like candy and gum that isn't sugarless and cookies and cupcakes, and also sodas, okay, sugary sodas. All those sweet treats are not so good for our teeth because they have sugar bugs that like to stick on our teeth and and make little bugs called plaque bugs and those plaque bugs well those that those plaque bugs like to make boo-boos on our teeth called cavities. We don't want boo-boos on our teeth.

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Do we we want our teeth to be healthy and strong, so we need to choose good foods and good snacks. Like molly talked about. She said it's perfectly all right for us to eat fruits like apples and bananas and oranges and grapes and yummy strawberries and our veggies, like corn and tomatoes, and to eat our meats and cheeses, and she said to be sure to drink lots of milk that your teeth love her milk.

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Another way that we need to take care of our teeth is by visiting the dentist. Okay- and this friend has been to the dentist and he brought some things to show you that they use at the dentist office. Okay, the dentist is a doctor who helps us, take care of our teeth and can clean our teeth to get any plaque bugs that we leave behind okay, his name is smiley, he's a silly clown.

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Well, hello, there, girls and boys, I'm smiley the clown. I hope you, like my new clown suit. It's decorated with some things I got from the dentist office. You might see these things when you visit the dentist, they don't put them on their clothes. Like me, though, dentists put these gloves on their hands and this mask over their mouth, so they won't get germs on you, while they're looking at your teeth, see that little mirror on my hat. It's my favorite thing.

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You open your mouth real wide and I use this mirror to look at all your teeth, the ones on the top and the bottom and even the ones way in the back. It would look mighty funny for a dentist to try to stick their head in our mouth, so they could see our teeth now. Wouldn't it.

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Well, girls and boys it's time for me to go, but you remember now to visit the dentist and take care of your teeth. So you can smile and talk and eat.

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All right, thank you. Smiley smiley showed us that at the dentist they wear these gloves on their hands and they wear this mask over their mouth. Like so, and those two things are to protect you and the person working on you to protect you from from sharing germs and also at the dentist. They use this little mirror to hold in your mouth and that helps them to see your big teeth up on top okay, now yeah, my next friend is quackers.

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Quackers is gonna sing. You guys a silly fun song about visiting the dentist. Okay and you guys can kind of dance along with quackers if you'd like and when he says quack quack quack. He likes you to quack with him. Can you guys do that? Can you quack quack quack.

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He has some music.

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Quack quack quack, quack quack, see your dentist, get your teeth. Cleaned like you, should you've heavy teeth you want to take, so you can smile and talk and eat visit. The dentist visit the dentist. You should wash them twice a day. Quack.

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Don't quack quack, quack, quack quack, see your dentist. Get your teeth clean like you should, if healthy teeth you want to keep so you can smile and talk and eat visit. The dentist.

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Okay, you guys are great quackers quackers, like that all right. He said if healthy teeth you would like to keep so that you can smile and talk and eat. Then you need to eat good foods along the way brush them, how many times a day two times a day and visit who the dentist, let's all say that together visit the dentist good job.

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Okay, now I have two puppets. One is a friend and one is not a friend and I need your help to decide who we're gonna. Listen to. Okay, remember, we talked about sweet, treats how those sweet treats like to stick on our teeth.

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I'm mr plaque, I stick to your teeth and I cause cavities brush your teeth. Gently round and round cleaner, wider, stronger teeth. You don't have to don't brush girls and boys clean clean, your teeth, clean them every day, see your dentist twice a year to.

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It will keep them clean and white in the front and in the back, don't listen to her girls.

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Clean clean, your teeth, clean them twice a day thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly. That's the only way, don't pay her any attention brush brush your teeth, gently round and round smile smile, smile, smile smile and do not friends hi, mr black. I stick to your teeth and eye cause cavities.

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Okay, what do you guys think who should we listen to ruthie toothy? I think so too. I want my teeth to be healthy and strong, and look nice like her. Don't you, mr plaque, doesn't want us to brush or visit the dentist, because he wants to stick on our teeth and make boo-boos. Doesn't he so that's why we need to brush brush brush and brush him away?

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Okay, my next friend is dugan. He is a doggie with special teeth he's going to show you guys how to be a big helper. When you visit the dentist, okay,.

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He's a nice doggie.

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Mighty glad to meet you, my name is bow wow dugan. I was chosen to teach girls and boys how to open wide because of my bark most puppies go off, but I always go bow wow and open wide. Now, I'm gonna do my bow. Wow open, wide bark and let my friend count my teeth.

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She's gonna put a little mirror in my mouth, so she can see all of them watch me bow wow.

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One two: three, four, four: five: five, six, seven, eight, eight nine ten.

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Next, I'm gonna teach you the bow, wow open, wide bark just go, bow wow.

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Try it with me. Girls and boys.

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Very good now, this time you do the bow, wow open, wide bark with me, and then you help my friend count. My teeth is everybody ready here we go bow.

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Wow help me count one two, three, four, five, six, seven.

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Eight nine ten great.

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And good too, this is just how we count your teeth at the dentist, with the little mirror, so we can see the big teeth on top. Okay, you guys did a great job.

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I have one more puppet friend named coco coco's gonna remind us about eating good foods and about visiting the dentist and about brushing two times every.

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Don't be monkeying around when it comes to brushing your teeth, do it real good, twice a day.

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Toothpaste is not food, don't swallow it spit it out. Dude.

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Some food's good for your teeth and some food's bad for your teeth, even monkeys, know to eat the.

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Your teeth to be healthy, see the dentist and remember open, really wide dude.

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All right, thank you. Coco all right coco reminded us to visit our dentist and to open really wide dude. Can you all show him how wide we need to open great job? Okay and coke reminded us to eat good foods. He said even monkeys know to eat the good foods. What do monkeys like to eat bananas?

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That's right, and he also reminded us to brush our teeth and how many times a day should we brush our teeth? Can everybody show me show me on your fingers two times morning, time and night time every day? Okay, you, boys and girls were great listeners and good friends for the puppet show. I want to thank you for.

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