What Floss To Use For Dental Braces?
Dental braces are great! They are able to move your teeth into the correct position and help you get the smile that you want but with braces comes responsibility to clean your teeth correctly.
Cleaning your teeth with dental braces can be challenging at first but becomes easier the more you do it just like anything. You’ll have to get yourself an electric toothbrush since electric toothbrushes clean best when it comes to cleaning between orthodontic braces.
Before using the electric tooth brush you’ll have to floss, but which kind of floss works best and how do you use floss with braces? Let’s have a look!
Disclaimer: We cannot provide professional advice to you and anything mentioned in the articles should be verified by your dentist or orthodontist first since this is just general educational information that cannot apply to every person in every case. If in doubt ask your dentist or orthodontist.
The Best Dental Floss For Braces:
The simple answer is Super Floss.
This can be many different types of brands that sell super floss but they are generally all very similar. Super floss is the best to use with braces because it has a very small portion that is used to clean around the gums and then it has a very fluffy part which is used to clean around brackets, wires and elastics.
This fluffy part is great for removing plaque and food particles around the braces.
Dental Floss picks can also be used when it comes to braces but they aren’t as effective when it comes to getting in-between brackets and wires.
The dental floss picks have a limited access area which makes it more difficult to clean between teeth. Therefore this option is not the greatest when it comes to cleaning teeth with braces.
Then we also have a question of is a water flosser good to clean braces?
Water flossers are great devices that are used to clean between teeth and especially useful in areas that are difficult to reach with normal floss but the fact still stands that we need mechanical action to remove the plaque from the surfaces of our teeth before we use a water flosser.
Therefore a waterflosser is only good when you have flossed before using the water flosser to rinse away any remaining plaque and bacteria.
Interdental brushes are also another option when one has braces to clean correctly.
The problem with interdental brushes is that they often don’t fit between teeth if the teeth are too close to one another leading to an issue of cleaning.
Otherwise interdental brushes are great since they use mechanical action of cleaning to get between teeth and cleaning out any plaque and gunk sitting around.
In conclusion:
We can see that super floss is the winner when it comes to cleaning braces followed by interdental brushes! Super floss cleans efficiently between teeth getting all plaque and bacteria off of teeth to prevent cavities while having braces.