Oral and dental hygiene

Maintaining good oral hygiene is one of the most important things you can do for your teeth and gums. Healthy teeth not only enable you to look and feel good, they make it possible to eat and speak properly. Good oral health is important to your overall well-being. Daily preventive care, including proper brushing and flossing, will help stop problems before they develop and is much less painful, expensive, and worrisome than treating conditions that have been allowed to progress.

How to do it:

• Brush twice daily for about three minutes. Try to follow a definite scheme to ensure no spot is left out. For example: First chewing surface, then outside, last inside. If you are using a standard tooth brush we recommend the "Bass"-technique: Tilt the brush at a 45° angle against the gumline, jiggle about then times and sweep or roll the brush away from the gumline.Then go on to the next section. Use soft or medium-soft brushes with toothpaste containing fluoride and change your tooth brush regularly. If you are using an electric tooth paste brush each tooth surface seperatly, one ofter another.  
• Floss daily. Gently follow the curves of your teeth. Be sure to clean beneath the gumline, but avoid snapping the floss on the gums. Use clean sections of floss as you move from tooth to tooth. To remove the floss, use the same back-and-forth motion to bring the floss up and away from the teeth.

• Gently clean your tongue to remove bacteria and freshen breath.
  

Basics:

• Do not use hard brushes.
• Soft pressure is adequate, do not apply hard pressure!
• Use toothpaste that contains fluoride.
• Do not use whitening toothpastes.
• Do not use oral irrigators, especially if gum disease is present. 
• Check with your tongue to make sure that all surface are smooth. 

We would be pleased to demonstrate proper oral hygiene measures in our practice. 

DGZMK - Patienteninformation: 
Häusliche Prophylaxe

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BASS Technique

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Daily flossing

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