Flossing

Ensuring children know about the importance of keeping their teeth clean and healthy from an early age is equally important. We must ensure they know how and when to clean their teeth and by the time they are older, brushing their teeth twice a day should become part of their routine.

Let your child pick and and choose their next toothbrush. If they like their toothbrush, they will be more likely to use it. Keep up this good energy and allow your child to choose a new toothbrush every three months or so.

If you don't like to floss because your gums hurt or bleed when you do, then that is an important piece of information about your gum health that your dentist is missing out on. You may have gum disease, and your dentist can help you treat it to eliminate gum pain when you floss and improve your overall oral health.

Taking care of your teeth goes beyond just brushing twice a day. It is equally important that you floss every day as well. Brushing will help get the plaque off your teeth that is on the front and back surfaces, and it will help remove the food particles and bacteria that are hiding between your teeth. Flossing also plays a role in reducing your risk of gum disease, tooth decay, and controls bad breath.

Recently, there have been a slew of rumors floating around the internet claiming that flossing your teeth is not necessary for optimal dental care. However, these rumors are far from the truth! In fact, they are all stemming from one publishing error that happened last year.

Dental Hygiene is very important to me and has been since I was a child, this has influenced my desire of becoming a pediatric dentist. In a personal interview i conducted with Dr.Bills she informed me of this, “Dental Hygiene is emphasized by all dentists, we want our patients to have elegant white teeth and pleasant breath”(Bills). I would like to teach children the importance of keeping their teeth brushed so that they will have a beautiful smile and healthy teeth. Pediatric Dentistry is a superb fit for me because I care about dental health and I want children to know the importance as well. It is never too early for children to learn how important dental hygiene is.

Your Child Lacks a Dental Regimen: Kids eat more sugary foods and tend to have a halfhearted commitment to dental care... they are much more interested in other (i.e. fun) activities. If your child is still quite young, you may need to remind your child of their dental regimen and even enforce or incentive it. Over-see their flossing and brushing... make

Then, they were encouraged to generate a behavioral plan for three specific occasions: frequency of flossing, timing in the day of flossing, and technique. After completing these behavioral plans, participants were instructed to create three coping plans, which included both problems that would serve as barriers to accomplishing the goals and how to cope with such barriers. Each behavioral and coping plan was then followed by a statement intended to gauge participants’ self-efficacy. At the end, all participants in the focus group were asked to utilize self-monitoring. Participants in the active control group were given an educational pamphlet containing the same information about dental flossing that was received by the focus group (what it is, why it is done, and how it is done). Then, they were encouraged to write down what they believed to be positive outcomes of and risks of not maintaining one’s oral health. In the passive control condition, participants only received the questionnaires at two assessment points without any

Flossing and brushing, is the first-line move toward microbial reduction, as part of an oral hygiene routine. Brushing for 2 minutes twice a day and flossing once a day is recommended by The American Dental Association (ADA). Proper oral hygiene can effectively reduce gingivitis and support in the treatment of periodontitis. Oral hygiene instructions should be given to all patients undergoing periodontal therapy.

going from tooth to tooth, show them how to make a “C” with the floss and move up and down

Having good oral hygiene is something you are taught as an infant, and something you wish you did as a kid. Whether it’s to have a nice smile, or the thought of having to loose your teeth when you become mature. Starting with showing children the importance of brushing their teeth will minimize the risks of gaining Gingivitis.Those children are dependent of their parents and sometimes the parents can only spend so much depending on their household income. Families that are not financially stable do not have the same resources as other kids with families of higher income and that affects the type of insurance that covers their visits to the dentist. There are cases in which they do not have what it

There are many techniques used to facilitate this, such as the toothbrushes used or creating a routine. The article “Dental care for toddlers” reveals that many toddler toothbrushes are designed with cartoons or other characteristics so that the child is attracted to it. The article also explains that there are special toothbrushes in the market that can be used until the age of five; these toothbrushes allow the child to easily handle it by providing a “non-slip cushioned handle” and are also softer than the adult toothbrushes for comfort (Raising Children Network 2). Participants in the survey conducted by Collin’s et al. discovered that children are more likely to be more cooperative when a routine is established. Through the survey the participants established a routine with their children and also included other things such as singing a song or brushing their teeth together; they claimed that including something fun to the activity allowed the child to enjoy brushing their teeth (“Framing Your Children's” 19). Although many dentist suggests that brushing a child’s teeth after every meal or snack the best way, as parents this is almost an impossible task, the AAP suggest that infants should brush their teeth twice a day—morning and at night—using a small amount of fluoride toothpaste from one to three years of age (“How to

Why? Even if you’re doing the world’s best brushing job, twice a day, every day, you’re still missing spots. Flossing gets into all the nooks and crannies brushing can’t reach. By reaching between your pearly whites and removing stubborn plaque and debris stuck to teeth and gums, flossing gives you a true clean. Flossing daily reduces your risk of tooth decay and gum disease. As an added bonus, it also helps control bad breath!

Focusing on the creation of effective oral hygiene habits, the preschool cavity prevention program starts with the belief that tooth brushing, like hand washing, is something done multiple times daily to promote health and wellness ("Dental Health," 2015).

Growing up going to the dentist we have all been told to always floss our teeth. You may remember going through those gruesome appointments where the dentist are flossing our teeth for us and it kind of hurts, feels weird, maybe even made our gums feel rubbery. And every few minutes when they are flossing our teeth; they make us take the tube out our mouth that’s sucking all the saliva in our mouth and spit in the little bowl. In that spit, if you haven’t been flossing you usually see a lot of blood come out. And it doesn’t stop. Then when you leave they give you a little bag of dental goodies for you to have. If you were like myself growing up, you probably forgot all the time. And it was an endless cycle at the dentist. Because of this I have spent a great amount of time this past month on flossing and why you should take time to properly floss your teeth every day. According to, US News they had an article published by Steve Sternberg in 2013 where they stated that on a national level those who floss daily amount to 30 percent of the population. Just over 37 percent report less than daily flossing; slightly over 32 percent say they never floss. This means that only 30 percent of people nationally floss at least once a day. And the other 70 percent of people floss here and there or not at all. This is very sad and disturbing because according to Lisa Zamosky on Web MD in 2014 flossing does about 40 percent of the work required to remove sticky bacteria, or plaque, from