How many times sohudl you floss a week?

Question

i also have one more question wats the point of flossing? i don't see the big ponit of it all. I do it correctly but i j ust feel like i m not doing anything. How ocme peopel say your gonna lose your teeth if you dont floss? i thought that noyl applied for brushing?

Answer 1

After every meal, or did you think your dentist was talking just to hear himself talk?

Answer 2

Toothbrushes don't reach inbetween the teeth individually to scrape out bacteria and food excesses. Not flossing is the main reason people that still brush, end up with cavities. Bacteria hide wherever they can in our mouths, and the hard to reach spots are their best spots. Only floss can reach in most of those spots. I also thought the same way as you about floss until 2 yrs ago. I really did not see the damn point. But my teeth are cleaner and my mouth is healthier ever since I picked up the habit of flossing once a night before I brush. It's a pain for the first few days, but if you keep it, it'll become a habit, and a good one at that.

Answer 3

Nope, they go together. Floss as often as you would like for your teeth to be clean. Brush, floss, mouthwash often.

As you continue and time passes it may become more obvious to you that flossing actually does serve a purpose.

It is healthy to keep the bacteria count in your mouth down to a manageable number. The unclean mouth can be a great source of bodily infections, on the face and head and throughout the body.

Also make sure you get regular quality dental care, and get any cavities tended quickly as they can provide entry into the blood and lymph systems for all the bacteria in the mouth.

Whenever possible get the ceramic fillings not the metal amalgam type when fillings are needed. The ceramic type require the removal of less healthy dental tissue to install, and they are more stable over time. Some even believe that there are health risks from the metal amalgam fillings.

Answer 4

First off, you should really spellcheck your questions, or at least look them over before posting. There's no such word as "sohudl" (even in the Middle East ;-). Anyone makes spelling mistakes once in a while, but they shouldn't be so obvious.

Once every day before bed is best. I used to not do it, for the double reason that it was a hassle and that I still have braces on the back of some of my bottom teeth, so I'd have to "thread" a floss, which seems more trouble than it's worth. However, my dentist (I actually kind of like dentists) gave me two new things called "floss picks" last time I went. They're little white plastic things shaped like a Y, with floss across the top and a plastic toothpick at the bottom. They make flossing much more convenient, since you con't have to pull floss or rap it around your finger, turning it purple, plus if you have braces, you just poke the thin pick under the braces, between the teeth, and never have to thread floss through again.

To the best of my knowledge, the point of frossing is to reduce the food source of mouth bacteria. Brushing helps remove food and bacteria along the outside of the teeth, but does nothing for between the teeth. Now, your saliva contains an enzime called "salivary amylase", an enzime the slowly dissoves carbohydrates, but not lipids (fats) nor protein (mainly in meat). Therefore, a piece of candy or bread or something like that, even if it gets stuck in your teeth, it is soon dissolved and swollowed with your spit. Now, imagine for a second you just had a nice steak or piece of chicken for dinner. Doubtless some of the food from that meat will get stuck in between your teeth. However, unlike bread and such which is dissoved and washed away, leaving comparativly vary little on or between your teeth, without floss the only thing dissolving fat or meat between your teeth is water, which is a slow process. Meanwhile, bacteria is free to feast on whatever food is left inbetween your teeth, especially at night when for eight or so hours you don't eat anything and don't produce much saliva, so bacteria in your mouth can do as it pleases without being swollowed, killed, and digested in stomach acids. So without flossing, you leave a large food source for microbes in your mouth to eat. More microbes means more plaque (hey, even microbes need to relieve themselves once in a while), more problems, and more bacteria to infect any cut in the mouth or cause a dental disease.

If you're worried about bleeding, don't worry, if you do it every day, by day 3 or so it'll be minimal, and in time you'll see no blood and feel no pain from flossing. Let's face it: flossing is less important than brushing. However, flossing once before bed every day will contribute to the heath of your mouth.

Answer 5

there are some food debris that gets stuck in between your teeth that a a brush can't reach or can't get rid of. You need to floss to get it out. I usually floss after brushing so the number of times you floss depends on how many times you brush, but I recommend flossing at least 10 times a week. After all, you eat 3 meals everyday, not to mention snacks and I'm sure that parts of those foods get stuck in between your teeth.

Answer 6

You should floss 1 time per day
You floss to get rid of the stuff betwen your gum line and your teeth. Regular brushing DOES NOT get to this and if you do not floss it away then it can create cavities down below your gum line. You won't see them until you tooth is totally decayed,

Answer 7

At least daily. It not only cleans debris from between your teeth, it stimulates blood flow to the gums. That's what will save your teeth. Receding gums will cause you to lose perfectly good teeth.

Answer 8

3 to 5 times a week. my teeth are so close together I HAVE to in order to get the food from between them-not to mention it helps gum disease eradication and circulation at the roots

Answer 9

afterevery meal that should be about 21-35 times a week

Answer 10

I work for dental office every time you eat at least twice morning and before bed