How To Keep Your Mouth Healthy: Baby Steps

Every 24 hrs you MUST remove the plaque from all surfaces of each tooth above and below the gumline

1.  SWEEP Brush:  Use a minimum amount of toothpaste on soft bristle brush.  perform at least 5 sweep
     strokes on face side overlapping stokes only.  Position  toothbrush on inside surface of teeth:  downward
     stroke on upper teeth;  upward stroke on lower teeth

2.  FLOSS:   Using 18" of floss PUSH floss in contact with tooth.  Maintaining contact with tooth -scrape
     tooth using at least 5 strokes for each surface or until you hear the squeaky clean sound.  Go as
     deep under the gumline as possible.

3.  SULCULAR BRUSH WITH DRY BRUSH:   Angle toothbrush 90 degrees straight into the gumline
     as possible

4.  PERIO AIDE:   Trace toothpick around gumline and under gumline.   Push against back of tooth and to
     up and down in floss manner.  Rub, trace DO NOT gouge or poke.  You will hear a sweak clean sound

5.  TONGUE CLEANING:  90% OF BAD BREATH COME FROM THE TONGUE  Go back 
     as possible and scrape forward.  Do this several times with rake portion of cleaner.  Apply small   amt
     toothpaste to brush side and brush tongue from back to front several times.  Again scrape forward with
     rake portion several times .   Rinse.

6.  USE a mouthrinse, swishing for 30 sec after cleaning tongue.

DURING COURSE OF THDRY BRUSH BEFORE YOU EAT, AFTER YOU EAT, AND AS FREQUENTLY AS POSSIBLE E DAY

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