How and why do we produce saliva?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Our mouths have a lot going on. They have teeth and a tongue and they help us talk and eat. But what about saliva? It seems important, right? How do our bodies know to make it? We asked otolaryngologist Dr. Laura Orvidas to help us learn all about saliva.
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| 0:47.0 | When I was a kid I had a few unsavory habits like most kids do. I wasn't so much a nail bider or a litter or |
| 0:58.7 | or even a nose picker, but I did love to spit. |
| 1:03.0 | I would have competitions with the neighbor kids to see who could spit farther. |
| 1:07.0 | Looking back on it, it's kind of gross. |
| 1:10.0 | But it was cool back then. |
| 1:12.0 | But now, it's got me thinking why did I want to waste my saliva? |
| 1:16.0 | It's good for our body to have saliva, right? |
| 1:20.0 | Our friend Luke had a similar question about this. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello, my name is Luke, and my question is, |
| 1:28.0 | how and why do we produce saliva? |
| 1:31.0 | Hi there, my name is Laura Orvitis. I am a pediatric odalaryngologist at the |
| 1:36.9 | Mayo Clinic and that means a ear nose and throat doctor. Well, saliva is |
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