 Hello everybody, Andrea Majeski here with Dental L. Let's talk about the water pick. So who is the water pick good for? Who is the water pick not good for? And how do you use it properly and which one should you purchase? Because there's so many out through these days. So first of all, honestly, I think that the water pick is good for anybody. I suppose the only people that I would say it's not good for is if you You brush, you know three times a day you floss twice a day. You have no plaque. You have no charter You have no stain, you know, there's nobody out there like that even for myself, okay? I like to think that I can brush perfectly. I can do everything perfectly, but I still get plaque I still get charter and I still get stain, but with the water pick It just helps to kick up your oral hygiene habits up a notch, you know Now what a lot of people think however about the water pick is that You would use the water pick and you don't need to brush or you don't need to floss But that is not true. The water pick is used along with brushing twice a day and make sure to still use the floss every day. Now having that said though I have a lot of patience That tell me that they don't have time to Floss or they don't want to so in that case I tell them you need It's not a want but you need to buy in that case a water pick because if you're not getting in between the teeth every day with a string type of Floss then you need to be getting in there somehow and the water pick is Excellent because it does help to go right in between the teeth. So I'm showing you guys an image here So you see this little? Attachment so some water picks do come with a couple attachments, which is excellent you only really need at least one and That's the one that will go for mainly in between the teeth because that's what it's there for it just helps you You know place the water pick In between the teeth or in those harder to reach areas turn it on and that water Stream pushes out and will help to get everything out. That's in between the teeth It's excellent and I do have a picture here Where somebody has ortho it it helps so much to get right in between the teeth now This picture is is almost implying that it's taking away stain Now it does help to take away stain But not if the stain has been there for too long if it's been there for years It's caked on there pretty well that the water pick probably can't get that off and you should be seeing your Then dental hygienists in that case to remove that stain, but it does help with plaque It doesn't really help with tartar because harder on tartar is that harder plaque that Calcifies to the teeth You can try to get the tartar off with the water pick But it just simply won't get everything off and that is when it's a good idea to book an appointment with your dental hygienists for a teeth cleaning But what the water pick is for is to help to get that that plaque those popcorn kernels Food that gets caught stuck from in between the teeth so it is excellent honestly I tell pretty much anybody that it's a good idea to invest in a water pick because the nice thing is You would take the lid off here You can Fill that up with warm water, so it doesn't have to be cold You know it obviously doesn't have to be hot But you would fill it up with water here turn it on and that's it now And make sure to use this over the sink because water does come out So you want to kind of lean over the sink and then kind of use it that way And this one I have this picture as well because it shows that it comes in different speeds Typically, they're the speeds one to ten or it could be low to high Medium is where you want to keep the water pick because if it's too low The water is barely coming out and not really doing anything, but if it's too high you can actually cause damage to the gums around the teeth so To damage the gums you don't want to obviously do that So I would keep it at a medium maybe slightly Slightly higher than medium, but you don't want it too high What else? They do come in different shapes and sizes Just the main thing to look for is that you are able to fill it up yourself with water Check to make sure you are able to get different speeds because if it's too low It's too low and it's not and it's not helping you so it's nice to be able to Have different speeds if you want it portable Then you would want a much smaller unit than this one as an example But the nice thing about a larger unit is that you don't have to fill it up as as often with water So it just kind of depends on your needs and what you want the water pick there for and it's nice when it does come with Different attachments, but the main one you need is kind of like a thin one like this to get right in Right in between the teeth, so it just kind of depends on what your needs are So who is the water pick good for honestly, it's good for everybody It it just helps to get things out That have been stuck from in between the teeth and it does help to reach those harder to reach areas So I do hope this helped here. Let me stop sharing my screen here But if you guys have any questions, please just let me know I do love the water pick No, I'm not being paid to say this It's just something that I like to recommend for a lot of my patients and patients also love them because it's just So easy to use and it does help to get right in between those teeth So thank you guys for watching if you have any questions, let me know and I will see you guys in the next one