Interdental cleaning is one of the most important home care steps for patients to maintain health and prevent disease, however are we always setting the patient up for success? Patients look to dental professionals for advice and instructions on how to maintain or improve their oral health but are we always recommending the latest research or meeting patients needs and wants. Floss meme and floss advertisements are everywhere we look, brushing and flossing go together like salt and pepper but is floss really the gold standard? How do we know what’s best for each patient? It starts with understanding embrasure spaces and making recommendations based on individual patients.

Topics to be covered include

• How to identify class 1, class 2 and class 3 embrasure spaces
• How to measure and identify the needs for each space
• Understand what is important in an interdental brush
• Understand how to motivate your patient for interdental cleaning