How does saliva help?

Answer 1

Saliva contains important substances that your body needs to begin to digest food and keep your teeth strong and helps food slide down the esophagus. It keeps your mouth moist and comfortable, helps you chew, taste, and swallow, fights germs in your mouth and prevents bad breath and has proteins and minerals that protect tooth enamel and prevent tooth decay and gum disease.

Answer 2

it doesnt so much trap pathogens as it creates a wonderful breading ground for bacteria. In side your mouth you have leftover food/sugar and an excellent temp with decreased competion for resources. This give bacteria the optimal environment for growth. Many of the bacteria that create the plaque on your teeth secreate a glycocalyx (sugar coating) that allows them to adhere to surfaces. These then build up to create a biofilm (plaque) that then calcifies into the junk in between our teeth.

Answer 3

Saliva doesn't protect us. it just helps breakdown food

Answer 4

it doesn't help atall it is just a stupid part of your stupid body tada tada

Answer 5

Saliva has two functions: it moistens food so that it is easier to swallow and it contains amylase which is an enzyme that begins the digestion of some carbohydrates.

Answer 6

salava or how ever you spell it is like protection. Umm. Well. It has some bodyly fluids in it.. No not pee but something else

Answer 7

Saliva contains an enzyme called lysozyme which helps to destroy certain pathogens.