About This Book

This book is called Open Wide and Trek Inside.
It is about your mouth.
It is about your teeth too.

Scientists helped make this book.
Teachers helped too.
They worked together for a long time.

This book helps kids learn.
It helps kids learn about their mouth.
It helps kids learn how to keep it healthy.

The book has fun lessons.
The lessons ask questions.
Like, "What do mouths do?"
And, "What lives inside your mouth?"

Teachers can use this book in class.
Kids can use it too.
It has a CD-ROM.
The CD-ROM has videos.
It has fun activities too.

About NIH

NIH stands for National Institutes of Health.
NIH is a very big science group.
It studies how to keep people healthy.

NIH wants to stop sickness.
NIH wants to find sickness early.
NIH wants to help fix sickness too.

NIH has its own labs.
The labs are in Bethesda, Maryland.
NIH helps scientists in other places too.

NIH helps train new scientists.
NIH shares what it learns.
It shares with doctors and with you.

This book came from NIH.
It teaches kids about their mouth.
It uses real science to do it.