Contents:
- Medical Video: 15 Easy Ways to Finally Get Rid of Bad Breath
- The importance of dental floss for stirrup users
- How do you use dental floss?
- Other tips and tricks for stirrup users
- Dental check-up routine to the doctor
- Brushing your teeth in the right way
- Reduce sugary food and hard and sticky textures
Medical Video: 15 Easy Ways to Finally Get Rid of Bad Breath
In fact, using stirrups makes you have to be more diligent in cleaning your teeth. In fact, stirrup users don't just clean their teeth with a toothbrush. Yes, maybe you find it more difficult to brush your teeth after using the stirrup. So, you should be ready for dental floss so that your mouth and teeth are clean.
The importance of dental floss for stirrup users
Cleaning your teeth when you are using these braces is very mandatory. Because, the risk of accumulating plaque and dirt will be easier when you use braces rather than not. So, to be even cleaner you need dental floss.
Is it not enough to brush my teeth? Of course not, even braces users really need dental floss to keep the gums and teeth clean.
Dental floss is created to clean dirt between the teeth, a place that is difficult to reach by a toothbrush. Especially when you use stirrups, some areas become more difficult to clean with a toothbrush, right? Well, dental floss can help.
Therefore, people with stirrups need dental floss at least use dental floss once a day.
Although the use of dental floss is indeed more time consuming, but this technique is very important for cleaning between people's teeth with braces.
How do you use dental floss?
Flossing techniques are very important for cleaning food and plaque between teeth. Every day, you should clean your teeth for 10-15 minutes, from brushing your teeth and also adding to the use of dental floss.
- Cut a piece of yarn about 40 cm long
- Put the thread between your wire and your teeth. We recommend that you use this dental floss in front of the mirror so you can see where exactly the dental floss is inserted
- Hook the ends of the dental floss on your index finger
- Gently, enter the dental floss behind the stirrup, and tuck it on the side between the teeth. Slide the thread up and down. Make sure you move the dental floss between the teeth one and the other, and between the gums with the teeth.
- Then, remove the thread gently from behind the wire. Don't get pulled straight away, carefully stuck in the braces.
- Move to the next tooth you want to clean. As much as possible do not pull stirrups with yarn. Pay attention to where the thread that you have tucked is located, then pressed and shifted to clean the teeth.
- Make sure you move the thread on each side of your teeth so that everything is free of dirt that cannot be reached by a toothbrush.
- Then rinse your mouth to rinse your teeth that have been cleaned.
Cleaning teeth with flossing is allowed every day, to prevent plaque buildup in the mouth. Dental floss also cannot be replaced by other means, such as mouthwash. Both clean the teeth and mouth in different ways.
Also, don't let your gums bleed while flossing, if you bleed it means your movements are too hard.
Other tips and tricks for stirrup users
In addition to dental floss, you should also pay attention to the following:
Dental check-up routine to the doctor
Clean teeth regularly at home and always come to the dentist to replace rubber and clean teeth with a regular schedule. Going to the dentist is very important because at the doctor, your teeth can be cleaned more optimally.
Brushing your teeth in the right way
Ideally, use a special toothbrush for braces users, or you can also use an electric toothbrush. Choose a soft toothbrush.
Last but not least, how you brush your movements must also be considered. Brush your teeth with circular movements on each stirrup. This circular motion is carried out in front of the stirrup, from the upper area of the stirrup, and from the lower area of the stirrup.
If you cannot brush your teeth after eating, rinse your mouth to get rid of food residues that are involved.
In addition, you can also use a small toothbrush (interdental brush) to remove the remnants of dirt that is still attached.
Reduce sugary food and hard and sticky textures
Sweet foods easily trigger the occurrence of plaque formation and tooth decay. If your teeth with stirrups are filled with plaque, it will be even harder to clean. So, better, prevent by reducing sweet foods.
Also reduce sticky sweets like candy, because this can stick and tug at stirrup wire. Likewise with hard-textured food, you should reduce the hard-textured food because it can damage your braces or can make the wire easily loose.
