A quick search on e-commerce platforms reveals that the price of a dental flosser ranges from tens of dollars to thousands of dollars.
What should we pay attention to when we buy it, besides taking the price into consideration?
1. Water Discharge Method: Continuous vs Pulse
There are two types of water dispensers: continuous mode and pulse mode.
The former is more water-intensive, and the food flushed out can be spit out along with the water flow; the latter may be uncomfortable when you first start using it, and you may start to “burst, burst, burst ......” with a start, but the pulsing mode is more efficient. (*But it has a disadvantage - open mouth spray is easy to splash water to the opposite mirror.)
2. Adjustable gears
Similar to electric toothbrushes, flossers tend to have a choice of various sizes of 'impact strength'.
At the beginning of a week of use, due to the direction of the impact is difficult to control the elusive, so we recommend that you choose the strength of the small to large step by step, until the use of the largest gears are not particularly uncomfortable.
3. Portable or home
If it is a long time at home, or more than one person to use (replace the nozzle), you can choose a larger tank capacity of the flosser;
If you go out and carry with you, you can choose the product without water tank (actually a very small water reservoir) design.
But in any case, it is not recommended that water be retained in the reservoir for a long time.
This is because there is no doubt that bacteria can also grow inside the flosser tubing (from water that has not been flowing for a long period of time), posing a health risk. Dump and replace the water in the flosser at least once a day.
4. Multi-function nozzle
The selling point of a dental flosser is its ease of use and portability.
For orthodontists, dental implants, and the elderly, there are also different shapes of nozzles to fit the complex oral environment of these people and the structure around the teeth, so that flushing is more targeted and efficient.
Dental flosser is a kind of teeth adjacent space cleaning tool, can help us at any time to flush the teeth and other oral hygiene dead space of food debris, poorly adhered plaque, etc..
But in order to fully clean the teeth neighboring surfaces, it is also necessary to floss and interdental brush together. Meanwhile, regular scaling is also a very important treatment for maintaining oral hygiene.
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