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Welington Almeida Pinto
Furadentes, who does not know is the name of a bacteriazinha that attacks the teeth of children living in candy bars, sucking candies, chewing gum, soft drinks and not taking good care of your mouth.
Therefore, long a battalion of Fura-Teeth lived in Caco boy's mouth, causing the greatest destruction in their teeth: almost all of so much yellow and rotten decay.
One night, the worst happened: a terrible toothache Kermit gets a surprise. It hurt so much he was crying on the lap of his mother.
- Ouch ... Ouch ... It hurts a lot, Mom.
Miss Sweetheart tries to calm the child:
- I know, my love. I know. Try to sleep that tomorrow, very early, we'll go to the doctor's Joey. I'll take mint leaves and make an infusion. Oh, you warm cheek and the pain improves, you know?
After a lot of care and affection of his mother, Kermit falls asleep. But, soon begins to dream that bacteriazinhas caries did most spree in his mouth, jumping tooth on tooth like clowns in a circus arena. Each Horns on the forehead with a more pointed than the other just to poke decayed teeth.
Suddenly, there is a little warrior and starts attacking the bacteria of decay mercilessly into her mouth. Stir all! Not knowing what to do, each one of them jumped sideways, forward, up, down, trying to escape the fury of the fearless fighter. But there was no way, were all driven out of their teeth.
The victorious warrior, as if by magic, takes the form of great people and arises:
- Kermit Hello, I'm Pastolim, friend of children mouth clean.
- Nice to meet you.
- Huh! ... Huh! ... From what I understand, has been eating very sweet and does not go taking care of teeth.
Kermit's silent not knowing what to say. Pastolim continues:
- Do not worry, they only attack the pets of caries.
The boy, relieved:
- Whew! ... Good!
- If you want, I can help get rid, once and for all, this ragtag band of ill intent.
- Sure, I can not stand so much pain!
- You have to promise me one thing.
Kermit, rather than quickly:
- Whatever you want.
- Floss and brush your teeth at least three times a day with fluoride cream.
- Cool. What else?
- Brush your tongue too.
- Language ?!...
- Yes, I did not know?
- I swear I did not.
- There's more: not to abuse sweets, chocolates, chewing gum, soft drinks ... These delights that the beast also loves bad decay.
Kermit, after thinking a bit:
- Closed. When you eat sweets or suck on candy, I floss and brush your teeth, is not it?
- Correct.
- Yay! Good tip for enjoying a Brigadier!
- Very well. Stay with this brush, cream and floss. They are powerful weapons to combat the causative agents of decay - Pastolim guarantees.
- I will use.
- But do not overdo the quantity and be careful not to swallow. Use just a little, well ... well ... bolotinha one the size of a grain of rice.
- That's it?
- Yes Folder contains fluoride. Fluoride is good for teeth, but if you can eat forever stain your teeth will still be born.
- Oh yeah?
- And be sure to visit a dentist at least twice a year to control the disease.
- Yes
- So, our deal is up?
- Of course.
- You will not forget anything, are you?
- No way.
Pastolim more open smile:
- From now on, take care of the teeth before breakfast and after meals. Before bed, caprice more. The oral hygiene is important for healthy teeth and gums. In fact, if I had listened to Mom! ...
- It's ...
- Tiau, Kermit. I want to go. Tiau.
Mal finishes speaking, Pastolim spins three times around himself and disappears into the air. Caco arouses excitement, fidgeting from one side to the other as though looking for something:
- My brush! ... Where's my brush?
Miss Sweetheart, who was sleeping in the next room, also agrees with the restlessness of the child.
- What is it, Kermit?
- My brush! ... Where's my toothbrush? ...
- Which brush? - Asks the mother, without understanding anything.
- The Pastolim that gave me, Mom ...
Owner daughter amused to see that way wreck waking in the night. He gets up, goes to his bed and caresses her son's face, imagining that he had had a bad dream.
- Where's the mother, the brush? - Insists wreck.
The mother, who had nothing silly, replies:
- Do not worry, while you slept, I put the brush in the bathroom cabinet.
- Thankfully, right? ... Pastolim I promised that I will take care of the teeth every day.
- Great. Now, try to sleep again.
- You stay with me a little longer?
- Of course, my love, of course! ...
The day dawned and Miss Sweetheart cared to take the child to the dentist to treat teeth. After the consultation, Dr. Joey jokes:
- Arre! ... Boy do not take good care of the mouth, lose the war for the Fura-Teeth. It is ugly, toothless and with a 'breath-of-Oz' that scares even skunk. Did you know that?
Then the dentist picks up a book on the shelf and provides the wreck:
- It's for you.
Surprised, the boy takes this:
- Wow, a comic book !!!...
- Not quite a comic magazine, but has good illustrations. It is a special book that talks about the care that a child should have to floss.
- Mass! ... Thank you, Doctor.
- Sure. Another important tip, kid.
- What?
- When you brush your teeth do not leave the tap running splashing out how many people do so.
- Do not do it. Mom has taught me that wasting water is not cool.
- Smart Boy, go with God!
From that day onwards, saw tooth shard is really a damn disease, tooth decay and causes pain. For this reason he never ceased to care for teeth and visit the doctor's Joey.
And so we lived happily ever after.
• Text reviewed by the ABO / MG - Brazilian Association of Dentistry.
