General Dentistry, Caps, Crowns, Bridges, Prosthodontics, and more…
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Home / General Dentistry / General Dentistry Secrets: How to Brush Your Teeth the Right Way
Let’s face it: if we all knew how to properly care for our teeth to prevent damage, tooth decay, and disease, general dentistry would be obsolete.
Thankfully, dentists are still around to help out when you mess up, but they’d much rather you had healthy teeth than have you show up at the office needing crowns, bridges or caps.
Here are some step by step instructions followed by general dentistry practitioners to keep teeth healthy.
1. Put a little toothpaste on your moistened toothbrush. You don’t need a huge amount of toothpaste! Just a little goes a long way.
2. Start with your upper molars. Working front to back ensures you won’t miss any teeth by accident. Always start on the same side, too – if you’re left-handed, start on your right side. If you’re right-handed, start on your left.
3. Hold the toothbrush parallel to the outside edge of your teeth. Brush for twenty seconds for each tooth. Your toothbrush covers two to three teeth, so you can use twenty seconds for each set of teeth covered by the brush.
4. Move the brush gently in a circular motion. Most people brush back and forth, which isn’t nearly as effective. Brushing in a circular motion means you’ll get into the dip that runs next to your gums. If you brush back and forth, you’ll miss that semi-circle and leave the part of your tooth next to your gums covered in plaque and food.
5. Brush one side at a time until you have brushed all the teeth individually from front to back. If you’re starting on your left, that means you brush the outside edge of your molars all the way to your front teeth on the left, then switch to the right upper side and do that side.
6. When you’ve finished with the upper outside edge, switch to the lower molars and follow the same process of brushing, moving from back to front, one side at a time.
7. After you’ve done the outside edge of all your teeth, switch to the inside and repeat the process. Brush in the same order as you did for the upper teeth – that way you won’t forget a side.
8. Brush the biting surface of your teeth, using the same order again. Don’t forget to brush for the full twenty seconds! Your teeth will thank you later when they don’t have caps, bridges or crowns.
9. Brush your tongue.
10. Rinse! You’re all done. Ask your general dentistry practitioner if there’s a particular mouthwash they recommend. Some “germ-killing” mouthwashes can actually cause damage to your teeth.
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