Interdental home care - dental wire
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When do we chose dental wire?
What are the disadvantages of teh dental wire?
-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?
-dental wire which one end is solid
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