Here at Crosby Family Dental, your local Huffman TX dental office, wants to help you achieve an oral health that will make you feel remarkable and vibrant. Today we’re going to talk about some common flossing mistakes so that you can ensure that you’re not making them.

• You’re not flossing both sides of your teeth. If you’re just sliding the floss down and then pulling it up, you’re only doing 50% of the job! When you floss, you need to make sure that you’re cleaning both sides of the teeth.
• Are you using the same section of floss between all of your teeth? You shouldn’t be! Why? Because when you’re flossing, you’re removing bacteria from between your teeth and from below your gum line. If you keep using the same section of floss between each tooth, you’re spreading the bacteria around rather than really removing it.
• Don’t snap that floss down hard between your teeth. Instead, try working the floss back and forth while applying a firm but controlled downward pressure. This will ensure that you don’t injury your gums or cause trauma.
• Do you floss aimlessly without a plan? You’re going to need a roadmap of what order you’re going to floss your teeth. Otherwise, you can quickly become confused and forget which teeth have been flossed and which haven’t! It may be easiest to start in the upper right and go to the upper left, then come down to the lower teeth in the bottom left and move across to the bottom right.

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