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Hello, welcome along.

Thank you so much for listening.

It's another episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly.

My name's Dan.

Yeah, cheers for giving us a download and a listen.

This is the show that brings you all the most amazing, weird and wonderful stuff from all over the universe. This week, we're heading up Fire Mountain in Dangerous, Dan. Praise yourselves for that. Also, for once, we finally got some good news to share about climate change and we'll

chat to an animal expert on the show all about dinosaur sharks. That's on the way. I can't wait for that.

It's coming up after we catch up with one of our favourite geniuses on the show. It's Professor Hallex,

and this time he's still looking at your gob.

Professor Hallex's Digital Dental Depository, with support from Philip Sonicare.

To honour great uncle halitosis, dentists' extraordinary, on the occasion of his 100th birthday,

Professor Hallex is creating a pop-up digital dental depository, an oral health

help desk. He's going to see how many questions all about teeth he can answer against the

clock. It's a super sweet set of sizzlers today, Nanobot. All about sugar. Wind it up and let

it go.

First question, how does sugar harm our teeth?

It's not the sugar itself that causes damage to teeth.

It's the acid the bacteria creates when it consumes the sugar.

Sugar is a source of food and energy to bacteria, you see.

And as they break it down, acids are produced. This acid breaks through the enamel on your teeth, creating tiny holes which can cause

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