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Remind people to brush

If I could change the world in one way I would change how much attention people pay to brushing their teeth thoroughly. Many people don’t remember how important it is to brush your teeth. If they would only stop and think how it could affect them, it would be extremely different.

If you don’t brush your teeth germs will rot them. This can result in teeth falling out when they aren’t supposed to, or having teeth pulled. This happens often because one night someone would be really busy doing something and they say to themselves, “I’ll brush my teeth tomorrow,” but they don’t do it the next night and soon they purposely don’t brush their [teeth]. This turns into a habit pretty soon after. Then in a while they are going to be in the dentist’s office thinking, “If I had only brushed my teeth!”

This problem spreads when in the process someone notices that this person doesn’t brush their teeth at all then they stop and someone else notices them and eventually there are oodles and boodles of people who just don’t brush their teeth, and oodles and boodles of people getting teeth pulled.

One person as an individual can change this by telling others what can happen if they don’t brush their teeth. Then those people tell more people and most of the people that heard the story will start brushing and soon you’ll have oodles and boodles of people who are now brushing because they know what will happen eventually.

Jack Moore, age 11
Vero Beach, Florida

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