NEET PG DENTAL EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Digestion begins in the mouth. The food is ground up by the teeth and moistened with saliva to make it easy to swallow. Saliva also has a special chemical, called an enzyme, which starts breaking down carbohydrates into sugars.

Detailed explanation-3: -The buccal cavity is the first cavity of the alimentary canal which includes teeth, tongue, and palate (Palate is the roof of the mouth. It separates the mouth and the nose.). The buccal cavity helps to take the food inside by the process of ingestion (ingestion is the process of taking food into the body).

Detailed explanation-4: -Only carbohydrates are digested in the buccal cavity. 3-5% of carbohydrates are digested here. Carbohydrates are long chains of sugar molecules (polysaccharides). Saliva contains enzymes like salivary amylase.