Using Desensitizing Toothpaste for Oral Hygiene

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Jill, dental hygienist from Silver Creek Dental on behalf of Expert Village.com. In this clip we will be talking about desensitizing toothpaste. There are different desensitizing toothpastes. The most common one over the counter is called Sensodyne. There are quite a few people especially that have recess where their gums have gone down, the roots exposed on their teeth and there are little nerve endings there and people that are very cold sensitive, cold air, cold water or anything like that where they have to use Sensodyne toothpaste. It is a pretty good toothpaste over the counter. It tends to work quite well for most patients. There are some patients that require prescription type desensitizing toothpaste what is called Fluorodex. Fluoredex is a sodium fluoride toothpaste. It is about ten times stronger than the over the counter type desensitizing toothpaste like Sensodyne. Not only use a desensitizing but it also helps to reduce if there are children, adults or teenagers that come in that have a high carries weight which is a lot of decay. We also like to prescribe this toothpaste. The fluoride tends to stop that acid process of where the bacteria is eating against the tooth enamel and so it tends to stop that and so we actually prescribe that to patients that actually have a high carries weight too. So it’s not just desensitizing but patients that come in that Sensodyne hasn’t worked for them or they just feel like they don’t like it or try something different, we will give them this Fluorodex toothpaste with instructions to use daily instead of using their regular type toothpaste. What you want to use is this desensitizing toothpaste twice a day, morning and evening. You put it on your toothbrush just like you would normal toothpaste, brush just the same that you would with a normal brushing and then you want to spit the remainder of the paste out when you are done and you don’t want to use water and rinse your mouth or anything so you just spit the excess fluoride toothpaste out and that is it. You want to make sure it just kind of sits in your mouth and on your enamel or roots. You don’t want to dilute it with any kind of water or anything like that. You want to do that. The most important time to do that is right before bed and that is the last thing you want to do before you go to bed is brush your teeth with this fluoride toothpaste and not eat or drink afterwards. So it kind of just sits and does its work. We recommend that you wait at least 30 minutes before you eat after you brush your teeth or drink anything after you brush your teeth for this toothpaste to take affect. This toothpaste has a pleasant taste to it. It doesn’t have a medicine type taste to it. It is quite pleasant. People brush with it daily and really enjoy it and like it. "