writing exercise #8

Since it relates to my future career, I am interested in learning more about microbes and oral health as well as how that can spread to affect the body. We touched on this a bit this term and in high school I wrote a paper explaining why oral health was important and the microbial composition came up. At the time I didn’t know what that meant and now I have a better understanding, so I’m going to dive deeper into that. I am also really curious about how the way we take care of our mouths has an effect. I took biological anthropology last term and my professor briefly mentioned how mouthwash and toothpaste is wiping out bacteria that we actually need, so I’d be curious to see if I could find more information on that and incorporate that into my paper. 

It could be what we eat or how we take care of our teeth (ex. Toothpaste, mouth wash etc) and alters the microbiome composition in our mouths and potentially the rest of the body. As someone who wants to go into the dental field, it’s important for me to understand this and how this could affect my future patients. Also, with more research, is there a way we could change the way oral care products are made to allow more beneficial bacteria to stay in the oral space instead of getting wiped out everyday? Are there foods that we could eat to help prevent diseases caused by oral microbe composition? 

I think to begin preparing my paper, I would need to start broad about why this is an important topic. Also, not everyone believes that oral health is important, so I would want to explain why I think it’s important and why people should care. I would then try to dive deeper into understanding what microbes in our mouths cause certain outcomes and how we could potentially change that. Maybe if I find the right information I could propose a potential change in products or highlight products that are doing good things for our oral bacteria composition. 

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