grinds the food into smaller bits
mechanical digestion is with your teeth , chemical digestion is in your stomach and small intestine.
All teeth are used in physical digestion and break-down of food before swallowing.
Teeth are involved in the mechanical digestion process. If they are not healthy they will not work properly to chew food.
To chew the food.
That would be mechanical digestion.
our teeth break down food physically which is called mechanical break down
Teeth help by mechanical digestion, which is breaking the food in smaller pieces in order for the saliva to cover it and make it easier to digest.
So they can chew (to prevent choking) and enzymes (saliva-for digestion) for digestion.
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Mechanical and chemical digestion. In mechanical digestion the teeth breakdown food into smaller pieces and in chemical digestion the salivary glands breaks down the food molecules.