 Hello everybody. My name is Andrea and I am the owner of Dental L Tutoring. I've been tutoring dental hygiene students and dental assisting students since 2005. Time goes by so fast, so I can help you prep for the board exam and pass the board exam. I will leave the links for you guys down below if you want to learn more and study more. But in this video today, this is another study time video, so you will see a new one every Monday, so keep checking back. In our video today, I'm going to talk about tooth brushing methods. These have not changed. I've been in the dental profession for 17 years and they remain the same. We do teach certain tooth brushing methods to certain patients depending on what they need. If they have perio, if they have gingival recession, if they have, you know, if they're a child, if they're using an electric toothbrush. So I'm going to talk about that with you guys. I am going to share my screen and we're going to go through that right now. So let me make this a bit bigger. There we go. So these are all of the different methods. I found a really good chart online. I'm going to talk about the one by one for you. So the roll method, this is the one that I use for all children. Basically, they are going to close their teeth like this and then brush in circles. It's as simple as that and then make sure to also show them when they open, they have to brush the insides too. But this makes it very, very easy for children. Children can't be specific going through everything. Those are different methods for adults. But then we talk about the horizontal method, which we don't use anymore. It's just basically you're just scrubbing. So you're not going in circles like the above method, the roll method, you're just scrubbing. We actually don't recommend that. I'm surprised it's in the chart here, but that's what we used to do. But there is such a thing as brushing too hard. So you have to be careful. But then the next method here, the bass method. This is for patients who have deep pockets. It's not for somebody with healthy tissues because basically what you want to do is you want to angle that toothbrush. So I'm using the top teeth at a 45 degree angle, light pressure, brush into the sulcus at a 45 degree angle. That's the bass method. There's no sweeping motion with a sweeping motion. That's the modified bass method. So the bass method, think about it this way is you're, is you're trying to get right into that pocket. You are like really focusing on that pocket. If you add modified bass method, that's a, you're in the pocket and then you sweep down for the top teeth. If you're working on the bottom teeth, you're brushing into that pocket and then brushing up, sweeping up afterwards. The stillman method. This is what I probably use the most often. This is for people who have, they're fairly healthy and, or they might have a little bit of gingival recession, but basically you want to place that toothbrush on the gum and a little bit on the tooth at the same time. And then like brush how you would in the previous method, but it's not right into the sulcus. You're on the gum and the tooth at the same time. And if you add a sweeping motion, that is the modified stillman. Those are the methods that I use the most, the stillman method and the modified stillman method. I'm going to first say the modified stillman method, but if a patient's like, okay, so I have to do this and then sweep, I can't remember that. Then I just simply tell them when you're brushing aim for the tooth and the gum a little bit at the same time and brush that way. That's very easy for most people. But what if somebody has braces, then you want to use the next method, the charters method. So the bristles are kind of held towards the occlusal. So not towards the gum or not the pocket, but the opposite way towards the occlusal at a back and forth. And you're also kind of like vibrating at the same time. Okay. This is for really getting those patients who have braces. If you're being careful around like certain areas, if they've had dental surgery, that kind of thing, but definitely have a look at this chart. It's a great chart, especially to help you prep for the board exam. But what's not on this chart is if they have an electric toothbrush, you want to show them how to use it. All they do for the electric toothbrush is they want to hold that toothbrush on the teeth, a little bit on the gum, but not too much. But don't press, don't do anything. Let the toothbrush do the work for you. That's extremely important. There is such a thing as brushing too hard and they can brush too hard with an electric toothbrush because it's doing the work for you spinning already. You don't want to add more spin into it. If you guys have any questions about that, let me know. I do talk about a full class with this also inside the board exam prep academy because you need to know all of the different methods for the board exam. So I go through this in a full class. Definitely check out the links down below. I have a board exam prep academy for dental hygiene students and a board exam prep academy for dental assisting students. You can and will pass the board exam with my help. So I do hope this helped. Sorry guys, as I'm coughing, I've been talking too much today. I do hope this helps. Let me know any questions and I'll see you guys next Monday for our next study tip video.