Healthy Gums: Critical If You Want To Attrack The Opposite Sex

When you clean a surface of the tooth bacteria begin to grow after two hours.    These bacteria are living organisms  which eat ,  digest, and have waste products.  The  bacteria cannot feed on their own .  They are only able to feed as a colony or feeding unit.   We cannot eliminate these feeding units (colony).  Our only defense is to mechanically disrupt them.  The mechanism  for disrupting the colonies require only one thing.  You must  come in contact with them and physically dislodge them.  They are kinda like head lice or ticks.

Our Armentarium in this battle include the only weapons at hand

1.  Bristles of a brush
2.  Dental Floss
3.  and a long neglected allie...the lowly toothpick

Understand. . The toothbrush and floss can only clean convexities.  The back teeth have concavities in the front back and side of the tooth.  Tracing a toothpick around the gumline once daily breaks up the bacterial colonies and effectively reaches into the concavities to clean these areas.

As simple as this sounds it is not routinely taught.  The Toothpick must be adapted to the concavities on the root surface between the teeth not horizontally but as close to vertically as you can adapt it.