As dental nurses, we learn about the digestive system when taking our initial qualification and we may revisit it if we take a postgraduate qualification but how often do we brush up on our anatomy and physiology knowledge to help aid our understanding of the day-to-day provision of dentistry?
Like all systems of the body, the digestive system is made of a group of organs and tissues depending on each other and working together to perform a specific function. The function of the digestive system is to breakdown food into small molecules, which can then be absorbed by the body and used as fuel.
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