Interdental Brush Guide

Interdental Brush Guide

This interdental brush guide will help you understand how to find the right interdental brushes, everyone needs different brushes, our teeth are as individual as we are! Moreover, it’s not uncommon to need a few brushes, as one size will likely not fit all of your teeth!

It’s those gaps between the teeth, where teeth and gums meet, that can trap particles. Once that happens, then bacteria form a sticky biofilm and inflammation begins. So interdental spaces are important places to keep clean. Yet it can be hard to choose the right interdental brush, let alone use them regularly and properly.

Manufacturers of interdental brushes have colour-coded them, so that we can easily identify the sizes that we need. The smallest are pink, and have a diameter of 0.4mm and the widest are black and measures 1.5mm.

Whether you have a wide space caused by a missing tooth, or slight gaps between teeth, there’s an interdental brush that will help keep the edges of your teeth plaque-free.

Our dental therapist can recommend the right interdental brushes so that all the planes of the teeth are reached. Alternatively, you can experiment with a mixed pack at home which will range from pink to black through a rainbow of colours. But remember that nothing beats reliable professional advice.

Interdental brushes are handy, and a really useful tool to help clean the spaces between our teeth that a regular toothbrush can’t reach.

You can purchase interdental brushes from our practice just speak to our reception team!

Interdental Brush Guide – Top Tips:

• Gum tissue responds to care, so give them lots of attention.
• Never push! Try a smaller sized brush instead.
• To clean thoroughly, you will most likely need to use a few different sizes.
• Once through the gap, move the brush horizontally.
• Use floss or tape between the very close planes of your teeth.
• Interdental brushes work best when used as often as a regular brush.
• For the back teeth bend the wire gently – be careful, or it may snap!