Interdental home care - dental wire

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When do we chose dental wire?

Suitable for spaces between teeth are too narrow

What are the disadvantages of teh dental wire?

-difficult
-time-consuming
-strong motivation needed

What are the instructions for flossing?

  • Wire 40cm long
  • around both waist or ring fingers
  • thread about 3 cm: pull tight between both hands
  • using thumbs and index fingers: thread through the contact point with dosed force and back and forth motion
  • pull wire tightly against one of the approximal planes and insert under gingiva until resistance is felt (no pain)
  • wire now brought back to occlusal with short back and forth movements to the contact point
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With bridges, the wire cannot pass through the contact point. What can we use?

-bridge needle
-dental wire which one end is solid

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