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Preventing Periodontal Disease
 
Lady brushing teeth at Lowen PerioYou play the major role in preventing periodontal disease. To keep your teeth for a lifetime, you must effectively remove plaque from your teeth by conscientious brushing and flossing twice every day. Additional aids such as interproximal brushes, Waterpiks, etc may also be beneficial.

Regular dental visits are equally important as your daily home care routine. Daily cleaning will keep the formation of calculus to a minimum, but it won't completely prevent it. A professional cleaning (scaling, or prophylaxis) will remove hardened calculus in places that your toothbrush, floss and other cleaning aids have missed.  Your recommended in office cleaning frequency will likely range from every 3 months to every 6 months. These visits can be alternated with our office and your general dentist office once your periodontal disease has stabilized.

Proper Techniques



Several different methods of brushing are acceptable. One effective method for removing plaque is as follows:
•  Place the brush at a 45-degree angle to the gums.
•  Gently wiggle the brush back and forth in short (half-a-tooth-wide) strokes; then brush away from the gumline and up for the lower teeth and down for the upper teeth.
•  Brush the inner tooth surfaces.
•  Brush the chewing surfaces.
•  Use the "toe" of the brush for the inner front tooth surfaces.
•  Brush your tongue, too.

Brush thoroughly with an ADA-accepted fluoride toothpaste at least twice a day. If you notice any repeated discomfort after brushing, consult your dentist.

One method to clean between teeth is with dental floss. Flossing removes plaque and food particles from areas a toothbrush can't reach. Flossing is a skill that takes time and practice. Glide is an excellent non-shredding floss.
•  Break off about 18 inches of floss, and wind most of it around one of your middle fingers.
•  Wind the remaining floss around the same finger of the other hand. This finger will take up the floss as it is used.
•  Hold the floss tightly between your thumbs and forefingers, with about one-half inch of floss between them, leaving no slack. Use a gentle "sawing motion" to guide the floss between your teeth. Do not jerk or snap the floss into the gums.
•  When the floss reaches the gumline, curve it into a C-shape against one tooth. Gently slide it into the space between the gum and the tooth until you feel resistance.
•  Hold the floss against the tooth. Gently scrape the side of the tooth, moving the floss away from the gum. Rub up and down several times and then repeat the process for the tooth on the other side of the space.
•  Don't forget the back of your last tooth.
•  To clean between the bottom teeth, you will find it easier to guide the floss using the forefingers of both hands.


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Contact Information:



9900 SW Greenburg Rd, Suite #230
Tigard, OR 97223-5473

503 620 1117
info@lowenperio.com

Hours:


Mon: 7am-4pm
Tue: 7am-4pm
Wed: By Appointment
Thu: 7am-4pm
Fri: 7am-1pm

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