Let's start with an assumption that we all know what dental flossing. But for the benefit of those who may come across the term for the first time, a brief introduction, to give a context to our discussion would be very helpful.
This is where you find that dental flossing is a dental hygiene process that turns to clean the spaces between your teeth. These are the space that would otherwise be touched during normal tooth cleaning process, especially bearing in mind the bristles of fact cannot penetrate effectively and clean these areas. Dental floss is made using a material called dental floss.
It is equipped with such background information that we can now proceed in the discussion regarding when one should begin flossing: before or after brushing teeth?
As it turns out, most dentists do not recommend one over the other. You can choose to take dental floss before going to brush your teeth. You can also opt to take dental flossing after brushing the teeth ... and everything would be the choice.
But designed from a pragmatic standpoint, it probably would make sense to take dental floss sooner rather than later, brushing the teeth.
The main reason for why it would make sense to take dental floss before brushing your teeth is what becomes clear, once you get to appreciate the fact that in addition to clean the spaces between teeth, dental flossing process even microscopically opens those spaces. Now we can also mention that one of the reasons we undertake routine brushing of teeth (with the help of toothpaste) is in an effort to provide our teeth with fluoride, which is usually part of the ingredients of the toothpaste. How toothpaste is not supposed to be swallowed, will remember that this fluoride absorption from teeth is usually directed, i.e., across the surface of the teeth. This means that only the tooth surfaces that come into contact with the get of fluoride to absorb it. From all this, we see a situation where open spaces between your teeth that is part of the process of dental flossing, would make for greater surface area for the absorption of fluoride, as the fluoride penetrates in those wide open spaces.
Because fluoride is coming from toothpaste, in this situation, it would make a lot of sense to first take the dental flossing, to open up large surfaces for fluoride absorption, before embarking on the toothbrush. As things stand, the normal brushing of teeth we undertake while inter-tooth gaps are virtually closed makes very poor absorption of fluorine content in toothpaste.