The Mouth

Let's begin with your mouth - what an amazing place! .. Look in a mirror and open wide - see if you can see all the following things.....

The first thing you might see is your tongue, which is a lump of muscle that is very agile. It is covered in tiny bumps that are called papillae. On the sides of the papillae are your tastebuds. They detect the tastes and texture of food and send the information along the nerves to the brain.

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