17 Feb
Dealing with dental floss to be learned
Even the best toothbrush can not all food debris and bacteria from the angles between the teeth get. This helps floss. Their application worth it: After all, the interstices around 40 percent of the tooth surface. And just here the bacteria are usually quite undisturbed.
In any case, you should floss before the toothbrush use. First, the motivation sometimes sinks when cleaning, so that one believes, on the silk renounce them. And also, the active ingredients of toothpaste, dental care (such as fluoride) as well as all points between the teeth arrive. Dealing with dental floss will certainly be learned and practiced – sure to ask your dentist and get in the proper use instructions.
Here’s how
First, you cut an approximately 60 cm long piece from the ends and wraps around the middle finger of the right and left hand. Then it stretches a short piece between your thumb and forefinger of one hand and pressed it between two teeth down in the direction of gums. First, you can feel a resistance, because the silk between the contact points on top of the teeth must squeeze through. Does it again, pressing it against the first one, then against the other teeth and move it several times up and down to the plaque layer going to scratch. Then pull it out, it carries a little bit and went with the fresh section of the next gap. Important: Make sure not to forget inter space.
An error would be the silk back and forth horizontally to draw. It has little cleaning effect, but gums and teeth neck injury.
There are dental floss in quite different versions – some thick and thin, waxed dental floss and un waxed. Partly it is “fluoride” is offered, some with a Teflon coating.
Waxed or not?
un waxed floss has a better cleaning effect than waxed, because it is easier faster. Waxed dental floss to glide better through the spaces between teeth. However, it remains of wax between the teeth left, which in turn food fix. This problem has with Teflon-coated floss not. Fluoridated floss prevents tooth decay in the tooth spaces in front.
