how many times sld i dental floss my teeth in a week?

Answer 1

Flossing your teeth after meals is always a good idea or at least before bedtime every night. Floss is used to stimulate the gum tissue, remove bacteria forming plaque below the gum line that your brush can't reach and remove particles of food left behind, to keep the gum tissue healthy for your lifetime. The more obvious are the visible foods left behind like corn on the cob, ribs, stringy meats or broccoli that damage teeth if left there, but annoy you enough to make you get them out with a toothpick or something. Then there are the other sugary or small pieces or particles that you don't notice or see that do damage to the teeth and gums, not to mention the plaque this gunk forms that your brush can't reach to remove. The enamel on your teeth is very strong but allowing these bacteria to sit in between teeth below the gum line at the "cementoenamel junction" (where the enamel ends and meets with the softer unprotected cementum) only allows decay to develop and attack the tooth easily. So flossing only once a week allows this bacteria forming plaque to multiply and sit lodged under your tissue in a perfect enviroment, in between your teeth to initiate the formation of decay at a much faster rate. You may not see it; sometimes even we can't see the start of decay in between the teeth without an x ray. That's why we do x rays at your cleanings, to make sure there is no decay going on that's not visible to us. So it's up to you how often you "floss" but I'm hoping after reading this you'll have a better idea as to why you should do it at least once a day if not after each meal. I've made avid daily flossers out of a lot of patients after explaining it to them like this. Just remember your teeth are an integral part of your body that is required to initiate the digestion process and maintain you’re over all good health. Take care of them so they will be with you for your life time by brushing, flossing and check ups to catch problems before they become big problems! Hope I've been of some help and that you will consider taking up the flossing habit. It's like exercise, once you start, it's hard to stop without feeling the difference. Give it a try for a few weeks and you'll see what I mean. Good luck!

Answer 2

You should deffinately floss AT least once a day. Preferably at bedtime. When you sleep is when you are most prone to cavities and flossing will help to avoid cavities that form in between teeth. You want to be sure to floss properly. Which is to floss around both sides of ech tooth to ensure you remove all of the plaque. Believe it or not most dentists can tell weather or not you are flossing as well. It might seem like a PIA to floss everynight, but once you add it to your routine of brushing it wont seem like it takes quite so long. You will keep your teeth a lot longer if you take great care of them..

Answer 3

ok first of all, ditch the listerine. It does way more beneficial harm than solid. you spot, there are organic 'teeth protectors' that our bodies produce. those come as solid bacteria which attack hollow area turning out to be bacteria on your teeth. utilising listerine kills this bacteria and for this reason eliminates this organic barrier our body makes for our teeth. an similar is going for any solid toothpastes. All you fairly want is only an elementary brush and floss two times an afternoon. no longer some other thing beneficial. also, some toothpastes contain a 'barrier forming' formula which help forestall food and bacteria sticking on your teeth. Listerine strips this away too. at the same time as Listerine kills bacteria and such, it gained't forestall added bacteria from being killed.

Answer 4

At least once a day! Just brushing your teeth does not get in between your teeth. Not flossing leaves material in between the teeth and can cause decay and plaque build up. Flossing doesn't take long and I'm sure you can fit it into your schedule. At least do it in the morning. Helps cure morning breath, too.

Answer 5

i floss my teeth once a week, on mondays. but you should really floss your teeth 2 or 3 times a week. try to seperate them it out a little so you don't floss your teeth 3 times in a row. don't floss more than 5 times a week. hopefully this advice helps!

Answer 6

You should floss at least twice daily. At most, after every time you eat.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Stocking up on dental floss
Well, I haven't cleaned out the refrigerator or scrubbed around the edges of the kitchen faucet yet. But I have done quite a bit of decluttering in the kitchen, as well as staying caught up on dishes and laundry. And, over the last couple of days I've done crafts with the kids and cut out some fitted cloth diapers to sew. So that's something, right? We've been staying very busy, working hard, and staying up far too late. :)

I just got home from getting three fillings done at the dentist. I can't feel my upper lip, nose or cheek. But my mouth, jaw and neck hurt. The underside of my tongue is as sore as anything else, from the little vaccuum tube attempting to suck my etire tongue into it. The novocaine hasn't even worn off yet, and I'm miserable. I took two Advil, but they don't seem to be having a whole lot of effect.

My teeth didn't hurt before I had them worked on. How's that for irony? Make your teeth hurt now so they won't hurt later. Also, only one corner of one top front tooth now touches the bottom front teeth. Actually, it's a corner of the filling, not the actual tooth, that's the only thing making contact if I try to bite with my front teeth. Is that a problem?


I hate going to the dentist. I've had a number of pretty bad dental experiences and I tend to get pretty nervous. I picked this dental office specifically because they advertised chairside movies, needleless shots, and air abrasion technology. But apparently it's only the other dentist in the other side of the building that uses these things. The dentist I have doesn't do any of them. He's very nice and seems pretty good at what he does. But I feel a bit like it was false advertising when the only doctor they have that's taking new patients doesn't do any of the things mentioned in the ad.

They did tell me that if I made the request ahead of time, they could borrow the movie viewer from the other dentist. So I made sure to request that when I made the appointment on Wednesday. Both the hygienist and the scheduler assured me I would be able to have the video apparatus. When I got there this morning, nobody knew anything about it. No note in the chart, no request put in, no video. So we listened to a radio talk show about misheard Christmas song lyrics.

Two of the three fillings I had done today (the two worst cavities) are spots I was concerned and asking about at my last couple of appointments. Which means they've been going on for at least a year.

They kept telling me they were fine and nothing to worry about, and never even made a comment in my chart about them. Now all of a sudden they're really bad cavities that are close to needing a cap or a root canal.

Wouldn't it have been better to take care of them a year or six months ago when I first noticed them? One might think so.

The biggest cavity, the dentist didn't actually spot this time. The hygienist saw it and pointed it out to him.

The cavities were between my teeth, so I guess I really need to floss more than the few times a week I usually do. I do brush well, but don't floss as often as I should. I also think I'm not getting enough calcium for pregnancy and nursing along with my own body's needs.

When I sat down this morning, I reminded the hygienist that I can't have epinephrine in the novocaine. It's written in big red letters on the front of my chart, too, along with notations of several other allergies I have. We discussed the need to avoid epi with the dentist as well. Epinephrine, because it constricts the blood vessels, causes me to have migraines.

My migraines aren't really headaches; they're more like small seizures--visual and speech disturbances, shaking, numbness/tingling, loss of motor skills, disorientation, etc. Certainly not something to mess with. They're caused by a constriction of the blood vessels in my neck and brain, which causes electrical short-circuits in the brain. So a vasoconstrictor like epinephrine, which is intended to constrict blood vessels, is an obvious trigger. Thankfully, I haven't had a really bad migraine in years, but I'm not interested in causing one.

The dentist kept having to give me more and more novocaine. For some reason, the shots weren't working well. The shots themselves hurt, and then he'd start drilling some more and that would hurt too. It takes a lot to numb my teeth, but then it takes days for the effects to wear off on my facial nerves and muscles. Last time I had novocaine couldn't fully blink one eye for about 2 days.

I think I must have had 7 shots, at least two of which were actually in the roof of my mouth instead of the gums. My gums kept bleeding, the worst cavity turned out to be nerve-deep, and the dentist was having trouble getting the fillings to stick. So he had to take them out and redo them. It took a long time. Then the novocaine that had finally taken effect started to wear off.

At one point, the dentist asked the hygienist for more novocaine and she said she had to find some more without epinephrine. He said, "Well, I just gave her a shot of epinephrine."

Lovely.

I said, "Well, if I start getting all loopy on you, you'll know why."

The dentist said he "had to" give me the epinephrine to "control the situation" (i.e. bleeding). Actually, I think he forgot. All I could say was that it was a really good thing I wasn't allergic to it to the point of being anaphlactic.

I was really dizzy and shaky when they got done. I had to sit there for quite a while and drink some juice before I could walk. I still feel like I'm fighting a migraine, so I really hope it will just go away. I'm thankful for spell-check at the moment--i keep garbling my typing in really odd ways. It's a good thing that only one of the shots had epi in it--I'd be in really bad shape if I'd gotten 7 shots of epinephrine.

The fillings look good, and the dentist seems to have done a couple of extra little cosmetic things which are nice. But I just found a sliver of one filling in my mouth and now there's a funny little gap or edge there. So I'll have to ask about that when I go in for the fourth filling that needs to be done. I'll have to wait for a few days to see if the worst one still hurts badly. If it doesn't get better, it could need a root canal.

What fun.

I can't believe my father-in-law gets all dental work (including root canals) done with no painkiller whatsoever. I can't imagine putting myself through that much pain on purpose.

I really think I'll start flossing more, and work especially hard to make sure the kids are flossing and brushing well.

Answer 9

Once a day is IDEAL.
Every other day is acceptable.
(I'm a dentist)