Video: Flossing Hack

Presenting on behalf of Dr. William Hummer

Dr. David Swoboda: So, today, we’re going to talk about a flossing tip that I give out to a lot of my patients. For those of you that have that one spot where something always seems to get stuck in between the teeth, or occasionally you get something wedged in there and you can’t seem to get it out with floss, or you go through with your dental floss and it just seems to move it from one side to the other, a simple way to have a chance to get that out of there without having to come in and have us remove it for you, is to take a piece of dental floss – and you want to tie a knot in it – so, you go round a couple of times. What this is going to do for us, it’s going to make a wider piece of floss. So, when you go through and in between the teeth, you can take that and go back and forth and this knot here will grab on to the piece of food or debris, whatever’s stuck here between the teeth, and remove it. I hope that helps you out today. Any time you have something get stuck in between your teeth, just remember this tip.