Flossing: Things You Can Easily Improve


Flossing: Things You Can Easily Improve

By Wright Smiles

As you are well aware, your preventive care is of the utmost importance in your daily life. When you’re skipping out on the details, you’re not doing a thorough job. When your job is only partially done, you’re leaving behind plaque and you’re opening the door for serious problems to affect your smile. Why not just get it all squared away? If flossing is the one little issue that you cannot seem to conquer, our Southlake, TX team suggests you let us help guide you, so you realize you can most certainly overcome this challenge with ease!

Your Grip On The Floss

Have a bit of trouble gripping the floss? While you can certainly try out a new texture, the problem most patients are actually facing in such a scenario is that they’re just not using enough floss. When you use about 18 inches or so, you have plenty of thread to wind around your fingers and to use. Otherwise, you are likely to drop it!

Your Know-How (Technique)

If you don’t really feel like you know what you’re doing with the flossing part of your preventive care, tell us: We will help!

Liking The Flavor And Texture

We have mentioned this before and will continue to do so! If you are not feeling happy about the floss that you’re using, it’s something you should definitely spend time fixing. Whether it’s the texture you dislike or the flavor or both, what you need to remember is that this particular sense is something that has a strong impact on your daily life. Your sense of taste can cause you to gravitate toward something or completely avoid it. So, choose a flavor and sensation you actually feel good about to keep your preventive care on track.

How Often You Floss!

Part of you might feel like you just cannot keep up with flossing because you keep forgetting or you just don’t have enough time. While it can become easy to feel convinced of such details, we remind you that deciding to floss is just that: A matter of choice. If you’re not flossing every single day, then it’s time to start. Figure out when you can do it, what time of day works best for you, set time aside that is specifically for that purpose, and you will quickly find that you easily get this part of your preventive care on track with little effort.

Easily Make Flossing Better

Enjoy flossing that is beneficial and that helps you maintain your oral health and do it with ease! Ask us for care tips and suggestions, so you can protect your smile with prevention that you practice daily. Schedule care with your Southlake, TX dentist today by calling Gregory Wright, DDS at (817) 481-7999. We gladly serve patients from Southlake and surrounding areas.