Dental Care & Oral Hygiene : How to Correctly Floss Your Teeth

When flossing teeth, tear off a small piece of floss about a foot long, wrap it around your index finger and move the floss in between teeth. Floss your teeth the right way with the professional tips in this free oral and dental hygiene video from a licensed dental assistant.

Expert: Michelle McPhail
Contact: www.MySolutionz.com
Bio: Michelle McPhail has been a licensed dental assistant for seven years.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Are you looking for a great form of method
on how to correctly floss your teeth? Well

my name's Michelle and I'm a Dental Assistant
with Solutionz and I'm going to demonstrate

to you on how you can correctly floss your
teeth. First of all, you want to choose a

floss that would work best for you. Basically
the floss that I really like is Glide floss.

It helps me, it's easier to floss with and
it actually is better for your teeth. So you

just want to break off a small piece of floss,
probably about a foot long, you want to wrap

it around your index fingers. There's a couple
different ways on how you can do this. You

can wrap it around your middle finger or your
index finger. I find it easier to wrap it

around your index finger. And you want to
keep doing so until you come out with about

an inch to a half an inch long. Then you're
going to take the floss and you're going to

actually just push it down in between your
teeth all the way down below the gum line,

and then you want to create what we call is
like the C effect. You want to curve the floss

around to actually make it look like a C and
then push it, go back and forth on your tooth

and below the gum and then pull it up and
out. Then you want to do the exact same thing

on the other side of the tooth. Push it down
below the gum line, create a C effect and

go back and forth as you're pulling up and
out. You want to do that continuously throughout

each individual tooth and all the way back
in between your molars also. And then you're

going to want, when you're coming back on
the very back tooth, you still want to floss

that even though there's not a connected tooth
next to it. So you're going to basically,

it's pretty simple, you just go back there,
push it below the gum line, and then pull

it, make a, create a C effect and pull up
and out. Do that all throughout your mouth.

Then to finish it off, you're going to want
to brush your teeth afterwards, rinse around

with antiseptic rinse and then you'll be all
set. My name's Michelle and I'm a Dental Assistant

with Solutions, and I just showed you on how
to floss your teeth.