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Friday, August 18, 2006
Smiley Ate Gloc
By Patria L. Zerna
"SMILE! Say cheese," says the over-eager camera buff usually when taking pictures candidly or formally. A picture is worth a thousand words, a time frozen in one particular moment with flashing, brilliant smiles.
The theory that germs are the causative agents responsible for causing diseases during the later part of the 1800 greatly influenced the concept of bacterial action that causes tooth decay and a host of oral and dental problems.
Colgate's cartoon creation contest with the theme "Tanggal Cavities, Balik-Colgate Smile" is a laudable program aimed at increasing awareness on the importance of oral hygiene and to stimulate school and community participation towards making the National Dental Health Month far more exciting and meaningful especially for school kids throughout the nation.
Moreover, the observance may also become a springboard to reveal and harness the creative and artistic temperaments of the pupils thereby bringing to the fore the cultivation of aesthetic inclinations, "Cavity! Cavity! Cavity!" the dentist remarks to his patient. "You don't have to repeat it, Doc," the patient retorts. The dentist promptly replies, "No, that was an echo."
Strong, sparkling white, healthy teeth, rising like translucent germs away from the debris of dental decay. Greater strides have been achieved since then in the science of oral hygiene. Colgate has always been a championing force in the formulation and manufacture of dental health products whose tremendous impact contributed so much for an efficient, active promotion for the maintenance of a sound dental and oral health and hygiene.
Like R2D2 of the intergalactic trek, the City Central Elementary School effigy, by the name of Ate Gloc, symbolizes the compatible and an irresistible bonding of science and technology, in information technology and computer engineering. Surfing the information highway by school kids nowadays to gather information or to do research on virtually any subject imaginable under the sun, has come a long way indeed, since playing patintero in the old days.
Laser, pieces of sophisticated equipment and gadgets, medical teleconferencing using satellites, the use of robotics, usher in a new era in mankind's quest to achieve a quintessential health reflects the nutrition one is getting: you are what you eat.
The role of the City Schools Division of Dumaguete to further hasten the progress of dental health education in tandem with Colgate's commendatory activities will not only bring into focus the awareness of proper oral and dental care but will also reinforce the vigilance not to undermine oral hygiene which when neglected, may constitute a major health problem. Thus, one should immerse one's self in a regular dental care and proper hygiene program.
So, come on, punctuate the air with your gleaming, happy smile. Leave the air sighing with your minty breath. Radiate that new-found confidence and smile your way to success.
Smile bright, start the day right. A hearty smile makes anybody's day worthwhile.
(Patria L. Zerna is the Principal II of the City Schools Division, Dumaguete City)
(August 17, 2006 issue)
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