How to Correctly Floss Your Teeth

Video Transcript

"Are you looking for a great form of method on how to correctly floss your teeth? Well my name's Michelle and I'm a Dental Assistant with Solutionz and I'm going to demonstrate to you on how you can correctly floss your teeth. First of all, you want to choose a floss that would work best for you. Basically the floss that I really like is Glide floss. It helps me, it's easier to floss with and it actually is better for your teeth. So you just want to break off a small piece of floss, probably about a foot long, you want to wrap it around your index fingers. There's a couple different ways on how you can do this. You can wrap it around your middle finger or your index finger. I find it easier to wrap it around your index finger. And you want to keep doing so until you come out with about an inch to a half an inch long. Then you're going to take the floss and you're going to actually just push it down in between your teeth all the way down below the gum line, and then you want to create what we call is like the C effect. You want to curve the floss around to actually make it look like a C and then push it, go back and forth on your tooth and below the gum and then pull it up and out. Then you want to do the exact same thing on the other side of the tooth. Push it down below the gum line, create a C effect and go back and forth as you're pulling up and out. You want to do that continuously throughout each individual tooth and all the way back in between your molars also. And then you're going to want, when you're coming back on the very back tooth, you still want to floss that even though there's not a connected tooth next to it. So you're going to basically, it's pretty simple, you just go back there, push it below the gum line, and then pull it, make a, create a C effect and pull up and out. Do that all throughout your mouth. Then to finish it off, you're going to want to brush your teeth afterwards, rinse around with antiseptic rinse and then you'll be all set. My name's Michelle and I'm a Dental Assistant with Solutions, and I just showed you on how to floss your teeth."