Dental Hygienist TEACHES How To Floss

Let's floss some teeth! I'm a dental hygienist and I wasn't flossing correctly until I learned how to PROPERLY floss in dental hygiene school - so I'd like to share my technique with you all :)

When you're not cleaning between your teeth, you are missing 40% of the tooth surface!

1) Hold It Correctly
Start by getting a long piece of floss and wrap it around your middle fingers. The longer the floss, the easier it is to wrap it. Next, make sure you’re holding the string correctly. Wrap it around your middle fingers and try to leave about 2 inches in between your wrapped-in-floss-middle fingers. Once your string is wrapped around your middle fingers, what you want to use to direct the floss is both your thumb and index finger.

2) Do The Correct Motions
You should bring the floss down between two teeth and make sure you’re touching under the contact area. You actually want to be touching your gums, but make sure you’re not popping it straight down into your papilla (the tip of the triangle of gums in between each tooth).
Be sure to hug each tooth and go up and down touching it on each side of the tooth, making sure the floss is going beneath the gumline! The dental floss should actually disappear in the space between the gums and the tooth (the sides of the papilla).

3) Understand The Goal
The goal of flossing isn’t to remove food from between your teeth, (although it’s an additional wonderful benefit) but the ultimate goal of flossing is to remove the biofilm pellicle (the stuff that is forming plaque)! Think about it like you are SCRAPING bacteria off your tooth, not just popping off food that may be stuck. When you are doing this - don’t be lazy about it. Laziness is when you’re not hugging the tooth. Remember you need to actually scrape off the biofilm from the tooth itself… think about it as “hugging each side of each tooth” is the best way.

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[TeethTalk]

thank you all for watching this video :) just a reminder... you need to floss between ALL of your teeth! I didn't show every single tooth in this video but it's important to know that I DO floss between every single tooth AND I even run the floss behind the farthest back tooth as well (even though there's no tooth behind it, it's still a good idea to floss the back side of the last molar in your mouth)! hope this helps!

[ripwitch]

Omg someone that actually demonstrates how to floss by flossing their own teeth instead of a mouth model 🙌🙌🙌

[richardcamacho]

She also demonstrates how hard it is for a patient to hold a conversation with their dentist. Great video.

[Obiamajoyisrmd]

Props to her for letting us be all up in her mouth. I’m a physician and didn’t even know how to floss correctly.

[Platonist]

23 here and I’m barely about to start the journey of flossing regularly, thanks to you🙏🏼.

[jusgodsself-insertoc]

I've had dentists condescend me for years about flossing but this is the first time I've ever actually been shown how to do it. I didn't even know you could get in between the gum and tooth like that...so I guess I've literally not once flossed correctly in 25 years? brb gonna go have a panic attack about how fucked my teeth will be by the time I'm 40

[breatherachel]

How did I get to 50 and never learned how to properly floss? I’ve kept sticking to the back and forth motion rather than around, up and down. Thank you for this video.

[EmilNYC]

Am I the only one kinda scared of bringing the floss so far into the gums???

[nya]

THE FLOSS GOES IN BETWEEN YOUR GUMS…. I always thought this only happened to me and i was super worried but now i feel relieved

[dr.siddheshnar]

I am a dentist from BHARAT, and this is the best explanation that we can give to our patients
You have incorporated all the minute details.
This is attention to details.
Like literally explaining patients to keep cheeks and lips relaxed while flossing upper posteriors.
Really appreciate.
Very very useful to patients

[MATEOH_LETSGOOOOOOO]

I grew up without floss
Literally haven’t flossed a day in my life til I moved out, this video helped me so much
Ty so much

[RohanKayani]

This is an amazing video. My dentist showed me how to floss (exactly like the video) and I was borderline afraid I will damage my gums. I incorrectly thought flossing was about moving the strand up and down in between the teeth.

Your video is clear and you explain it brilliantly. Thank you!

[lobosnumberfive]

as someone who had seven fillings after joining the army and being told my teeth were shite, i've really started to take this stuff seriously. thanks for the concise and informative video!

[SunSaiko]

the back and forth motion has opened my eyes thank you

[amitm]

1:18- mind blown, never thought it would go inside the gums

[krismcarman]

The only way to teach flossing is getting up close and personal! 😂 Great video as always, girl!!

[janglinsoul]

thank you so much for taking the time to actually show how it's done in your own mouth! Every dentist I've been to tell me to floss but not one has ever explained to me how. Thank you :)

[vinnyxbrooke]

This was literally so helpful. I'm 27 and nobody- literally nobody ever taught me how to floss. I have been doing it of course but, and this is so embarrassing, I have been using literally yards of floss each time. That is not an exaggeration at all. I wasn't wrapping it around just one finger and twirling away the unused section. I was wrapping it around two fingers and then just letting the rest hang and grabbing it with my thumb and pointer finger, then wrapping it around those two fingers again when I was sound like an idiot now but its true

[dreamyjade]

i struggle with depression, and used to only floss once a week and sometimes would go days without brushing my teeth. unfortunately, even though i have good oral hygiene now, i suffer the consequences of my actions and have gum disease. luckily, it has not progressed too much, it’s just very expensive to treat😅 make sure u floss and brush everyday kids, those dental bills aren’t kind lol

[meowmeow_]

Had my 6 year old watch this and I have shown and explained it to her so many times, but you know how that goes, so when she started watching this she kept saying things like “Oooh” and “That makes sense” like I didn’t show and explain the same things to her hahaha Thank you for this video! She is doing it correctly now and is more excited to floss her teeth vs me explaining it and her acting like it was some big hoop she had to jump through everyday lol