Coronal Teeth Polishing: Flossing

Video Transcript

"So now after we have done all the teeth and coronal polishing, big thing we need to do is do dental floss. Now the purpose of the dental floss in our perspective is to make sure that we didn't miss any excess debris that we didn't get from either scaling or the coronal polishing. Because a lot of times when you put the floss in between the teeth, you can kind of take out some of the hard stuff that the polishing alone wouldn't come out. Now the way for us to hold the floss is to wrap it around my middle fingers and then use our little thumbs here to hold it for an establishment. Now when you put it in the person' s mouth, you want to wrap the tooth as best as you can around there, kind of like making a c, and then you just go up and down. Now be really careful when you pull it out, I mean it's best to slide it straight through in the middle, just like this, because if you pull all the way out, sometimes it will pop off a crown or maybe if they have a ledge on the tooth or something like that, or a loose tooth it can come out with it. So if you do have to pull it down be really, really gentle. And you just kind of saw it up and saw it down. So open your mouth sir. Ok and then we just saw it up, oops, right here, make a little c cup and a little c cup like that so we are rubbing the whole tooth and if we have to take it down be as gentle as possible. Saw it back up here, c cup. Sometimes people's gums bleed, it's not, it's not a very scary thing, it's just natures way of kind of taking all the poisons out of the system. I mean it's a good thing, I mean I know if you think about the times of the leeches it works the same way. The bleeding has all the poisons come out of your body. So up and down and that's how you do it."