 Hello everybody, Andrew my ask you here with dental L. I'm going to show you guys how to use the water pick or it doesn't even have to be the water pick Brand per se, the water flosser overall they are excellent. So let me just show you guys how to use it because the first time I had used it. It was intense. I was actually very surprised at how much water came out and it made a mess everywhere. Even if you look at the manual that comes with it. It does tell you a Don't look in the mirror while you're using it probably because if you're doing this, it will go all over the mirror and it tells you to lean over the sink. Well, I did lean over the sink and I didn't look in the mirror. It's still made a huge mess. It was intense. So I want to kind of teach you guys how to use it properly. So This is the one that I got here. I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom. I like this one because it's tinier. You can get a counter Unit that basically has a much larger water container, but it would have to sit on your counter or put it under the sink. Well, The less I have in the house, the better. So I had opted for a portable one because it just kind of stands on your counter like this and you can put it underneath the sink to And all you do is you open up this little thing here to fill up the water. That's it. This one does take batteries. I believe it's three AAA batteries, but I prefer the ones that are rechargeable when I bought this one. I didn't know There was such a thing as rechargeable water picks. I don't know why, but I just got this one and one this When this one dies. I will probably buy another one that is rechargeable because it's just easier, right. Well, let me show you guys how to use it. So I'm going to use this little guy here. Okay, because he has teeth and he has a mouth, which is important to kind of show you guys how to use it. If I try to show you on myself and might be kind of hard. So the first thing to do is obviously fill up fill up the water. Don't turn it on until you have it inside the mouth and close your lips around it. So let's just say you want to do this. Okay, now he doesn't have Lips. Okay, so, but close your lips around it. So I'll actually show you with with mine. So kind of do this. Okay. So pick a spot where you want to start. I just usually start at the back and then close your lips around it. So like this. See guys so close your lips around it. I can't say that enough. If you don't, you will make a huge mess, you will be trying to turn it off, but you won't know how because you're not used to it yet. Okay. So go inside the mouth and I like to use the water pick when I'm in the shower because it's going to still make a mess, you can lean over the sink and do it, but that takes practice. So turn it off. Put it inside the mouth and then turn it on. Okay, so I'm not going to turn it on because that it's just going to spray everywhere. But the one that I have has a low power setting here. Let me just put this guy down a low power setting and a high Low is still pretty good. I was probably using the low power setting for a good couple days until I got used to it. And then I did feel that low might be a little bit too low. So then I did Then I did switch to high but put it inside the mouth before you change that knob and then you just have to go along the teeth. Like this. Okay, don't do it too quickly because I don't feel like that would help. So kind of sit right in between the teeth where the gum and the tooth comes together for a couple seconds and then move over to the next one. A couple seconds move over to the next one. A couple seconds move over to the next one because if you go too quickly. It's not going to really help. Right. And what I find a lot of people do is they will put the water pick in the mouth, but still too far. So if trying to use the water pick like out here. It's going to get water everywhere. So make sure to touch the actual tooth where the tooth and the gum come together right in between. And go along that way along the dumb line. Okay, so does that make sense to everybody I find with this one I can use the whole I can do the top teeth and the bottom teeth with only with not having to change the water. But when I first started using it. I was a little bit, you know, It took me some time to get used to it. So I probably had to switch up the water a couple times, but that's okay. It's so much easier to have a portable one. And do all of the outside teeth. So obviously a lot slower, but do all of the outside teeth right top and the bottom with practice, you can do the inside to So it does also help to do the inside teeth because that just helps to get things as clean as possible. Right. So if you guys have any questions, let me know. I love the water pick. I probably use the water pick after I eat All the time because there's always something stuck in there. It just helps to get that good overall clean Um, I have some patients that tell me, um, I'm not going to use the floss ever. Okay, just so you know That's okay use this because I was reading an article that was done in 2018 and studies have actually shown this seems to work better than using the string. Okay. So if this works better. We're happier as a dental hygienist, but patients happier because we're happier and it's just easier to clean their teeth. It's a win win for everybody. So I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom. Check it out. If you don't like it, take it back, but you will love it. Trust me, you will want to use it all the time. So thank you guys for watching. If you guys have questions, let me know. And I'll see you in the next one.