Tounge
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TONGUE TWISTER
- Your tongue has is really made up of many groups of muscles run in different directions
- Your tongue is very flexible in the front so help with sounding out words
- Your tongue helps you move all of your food to the back of your mouth to chew
- Your tongue helps you eat by moving the small bit of food into your esophagus
- If you didnt have a tongue you could not speak or pronounce words clearly.
TONGUE HELD DOWN TIGHT
- It is impossible to swallow your tongue
- Your frenulum connects your tongue to the bottom of your mouth
- The whole base of your tounge is anchored down
TASY TIDBITS
- The top of your tongue is covered with a layer of bumps called papillae
- They help grip food and move it around while you chew and they contain your taste buds, so you can taste everything
- People are born with about 10,000 taste buds. But as a person ages, some of his or her taste buds die.
TRAVELING TASTES
- Each taste bud is made up of taste cells
- They have sensitive, microscopic hairs called microvilli Those tiny hairs send messages to the brain.
FRIEND OF THE TOUNGE
- The tongue get help tasting with your nose
- Your nose helps you taste foods by smelling them before they go in your mouth and as you chew and swallow them.
- Your tongue also gets help from your teeth, lips, and mouth.
- A dry tongue can't taste a thing, so saliva helps the tongue by keeping it wet
FIGHTING GERMS
- The back section of your tongue contains something called the lingual tonsil
- that help filter out harmful germs that could cause an infection in the body.
- The lingual tonsil, the palatine tonsils, and the adenoids help fight infections.
THE TONGUE IS ONE TOUGH WORKER
- Your tongue never stops working
- Even in your sleep it is busy pudhing saliva into your throat
- You want to keep your tongue at top shape by brushing it
- your tongue helps you with talking ,mixing food, swallowing, tasting, and germ fighting,
