Cleaning the interdental spaces: the best tips

Clean the interdental spaces with dental floss

Dental floss is the most commonly used aid when it comes to cleaning the interdental spaces.

With the fine dental floss you can also clean narrow interdental spaces.
Especially when teeth are very close together, you should be particularly careful with the dental floss. There is a great risk here that the sensitive gums will be injured.
Unwaxed dental floss not only removes food particles, but also plaque.
Dental floss is best suited for the incisors and canines.
If you are less experienced in handling it, handling with small dental floss holders is easier.
By the way, interdental spaces should be cleaned as often as possible. So you can floss as often as you want. The same applies to all other dental care aids.

In addition to dental floss, there are other good tools for carefully cleaning the interdental spaces.

So-called interdental brushes are very practical and easy to use.
These small brushes are better suited for cleaning the interdental spaces than dental floss, especially when the teeth are further apart.
There are different models of irrigators. If you only use water for cleaning, you can use it to rinse leftovers from between the teeth.
In addition, there are devices that build up more pressure with a mixture of water and air and can possibly also remove plaque from between the teeth.
Finally, there are so-called toothpicks . These are thin wooden sticks, which are not round, but triangular in shape to better clean the interdental spaces.
In order to avoid injuries, you should only use such wooden sticks with larger interdental spaces.

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