Pick Flossing Aids for Oral Hygiene

Video Transcript

"Hi I’m Dr. Scott Chandler with Silver Creek Dental on behalf of Expert Village.com. This clip is about using some little pocket tools to help clean your teeth in some of those hard to reach places. Got a little tooth model that will help show us what we are using. Now the first one I would like to show you is called the Pickadent which is something that we get and use in my office here at Silver Creek Dental. I think you can look it up on the internet and probably get about anything that way. What the Pickadent is that is has a couple of little angles and picks and it kind of looks like a sword. Instead of using those wooden tooth picks that might get a splinter in your gum and cause you a really bad infection, it’s a lot better if you can use something like these plastic ones that you can wash off and take care of. It comes in a little carrying case and can keep it in your purse and have it with you. You just use those little edges to clean some of those spots between your teeth there that you may be having a hard time getting something out of. They are great for traveling and pretty handy to hold onto. There are different angles here so that you can reach to the back or get those right in front so that’s called the Pickadent and that is one that we like to hand out to patients in my office. There’s another little variation on one that we got somewhere, and I don’t even know what this one is called. The same type of thing. It’s got the little sword at one end. It’s a little softer and little more flexible. This one kind of gets into some places a little better sometimes and it’s got a hook on one end for getting some of that stuff that may be caught under defective dental restoration or maybe a little hole that you haven’t quite yet got in to get fixed yet. Use that little hook to reach in there and get some of those chunks of dinner that you may have left behind. "