clean your own teeth?

[cavaliergirl]

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Anyone ever try to clean your own teeth? I saw a suggestion on a do-it-yourself website recently to buy prophy paste, scaler, and pik and 3 times a year, spend half an hour scraping, getting under the gum line, and polishing with prophy paste. Do this in combination with a good daily regime - flossing, water pik, brushing, mouthwash, and if you're in good health, you can cut back on the professional cleanings to every year or two.

Is this safe to do?

 

[UCSD6]

haha, you can also suture your own wounds, unclog your own ears, pull out an ingrown nail, diagnose a cold, who needs professionals.

 

[jeffity]

The only way to be sure is to get yourself a radiography machine while you're at it.

 

[Kam1]

Is this safe to do?


No.

 

[awaitsimpatient]

OMG..Its NOT safe unless you know how to use those instruments!! This is not the FREE EXAM/Diagnosis forum lol

 

[cavaliergirl]

haha, you can also suture your own wounds, unclog your own ears, pull out an ingrown nail, diagnose a cold, who needs professionals.

I've actually done all of those except the suturing... I really like my dentist and my hygienist. Been with them for 10 years and consider them friends. It's why I've resisted cutting back on dental exams even though I'm being squeezed out of the market by increasing costs.

 

[teett]

I've actually done all of those except the suturing... I really like my dentist and my hygienist. Been with them for 10 years and consider them friends. It's why I've resisted cutting back on dental exams even though I'm being squeezed out of the market by increasing costs.

Pull out an ingrown nail sounds horrible!!! Does that hurt a lot or a little?

 

[KittySquared]

Pull out an ingrown nail sounds horrible!!! Does that hurt a lot or a little?

No problem. You can also shoot yourself up with home made pain killers.


If you really wanted to, you can do everything yourself. And I mean EVERYTHING.

 

[cavaliergirl]

Over a 2 or 3 day period, I used sandpaper to wear the top part of the nail down. When I finally removed that part of the toe nail it hurt, but probably not as much as you imagine. And the relief of the pressure, the constant throbbing, was great.

 

[Swifty181]

I tried that. Its not as easy as you might think.