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Generally, I find that perio patients do well with this brush. They would run this thirty seconds from back to front, another thirty seconds from the front to the back on the tongue side because we say to do the tongue side first — people miss the tongue side more than they do the cheek side.
So, you’d go roughly four seconds per tooth, because most people have about seven teeth here from back to front. I typically count “one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three, one-thousand-four,” then move forward to the next tooth. Literally hold the brush in place and let it do the work — you’re just moving your way around the mouth. That’s thirty seconds. Then likewise another thirty seconds on the cheek side, working your way around, still four seconds per spot. By the time you get around to the opposite side, that’s two minutes, and the brush shuts off automatically.
Then you’d go to the upper jaw and do the same thing — four seconds per tooth, starting on the tongue side, since that’s where we see the most problems. All the way around, pausing mentally at thirty seconds and at one minute, then the other side, and it shuts off again.
Generally, perio patients do well with this brush — it cleans very well. We also recommend the compact head, which is unfortunately only available through your dentist. We keep them here for our patients, and I think it works a little nicer than the full-size head it typically comes with.