How To Floss With Braces And Swollen Gums. Ask your dentist for advice or a demonstration of how to floss in a way that is mindful to your braces while cleaning the areas between your teeth effectively. A waterpik uses pressurized water to clean between your teeth and around your gums.
Brush and floss as usual and use a water pick to flush out the deposits and an interproximal brush to clean between. There are some preventive measures you can take to avoid swollen gums, including maintaining proper oral care and eating healthy foods. Using an electric toothbrush that comes with a special orthodontic head and a timer telling you when you've brushed sufficiently (two minutes, twice a day or more if your gums are very swollen).
The stiff end can be inserted easily into the interdental spaced, under the bracket, and you ca thread it through the proximal surfaces to cleanse it with the foam and with the normal waxed floss.
Typically, when gums are bleeding after flossing this means you aren’t flossing quite enough! So, if your gums are really swollen, it can make it look like they are growing over your braces, but they’re not. There is a constant tension being put on your teeth by your braces to cause them to move and the swelling can be caused by this. The inflammation is an effect of your gums trying to combat the bacteria present in the plaque which has accumulated on your teeth due to inadequate cleaning, which may be more difficult now that.