What happens to food?

Ingestion:

• When enters your mouth. this is called ingesting food.
• Chew food is called mastication
• swallowing food
• The teeth that you chew is called a molar.
• The teeth that your trip and tear food with called canines.
• The teeth that you cut with is called the incisors.

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• The food gets "pushed" down the oesophagus to the stomach by waves of muscle contractions that move the food to different processing stations.  This process is called peristalsis. It starts when a bolus of food is swallowed. 

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