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Flossing your teeth can be a waste of time-and do more HARM than good, leading dental expert claims
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| 10/15/2015
| Jane Symons
Posted on 10/15/2015 11:05:04 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: V_TWIN
“I think they should have their own schools!”
They do. ;-)
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
10/15/2015 1:01:59 PM PDT
by
Roos_Girl
(The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Paradox
100% agree on the importance of heredity to development of dental caries and also chronic halitosis.
Some people fool themselves into thinking the absence of those is due to their own good habits
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posted on
10/15/2015 1:12:17 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: rarestia
“I’ve been flossing 4-6 times a week since I was a teenager. Ive had a grand total of 1 cavity my entire life.”
Your testimonial seems to be the perfect case study of the importance of heredity. You’ve only had one cary — why not a bunch before you started flossing? I probably had 20 before I was 13. Now my teeth crack one or two a year regardless of whether I floss (of course).
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posted on
10/15/2015 1:25:13 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: Georgia Girl 2
Has he/she retrieved dental records of your ancestors to rule out good heredity as the reason?
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posted on
10/15/2015 1:28:08 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: steve86
WEll I do have incredibly good teeth. thick enamel but My Mom had such bad periodontal disease she had all her teeth pulled at age 32 or something. Has had dentures ever since. I doubt if she ever flossed. I don’t think they did that when she was young.
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posted on
10/15/2015 1:48:33 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Georgia Girl 2
“My Mom had such bad periodontal disease she had all her teeth pulled at age 32 or something.”
My mom had a lot extracted also — I think they must have been over-eager to do that back then. Or maybe surgical periodontal treatments and root canals/capping were not as broadly used yet.
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:23:17 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
To: steve86
My Mom said it was so expensive she and my Dad could not afford it. At that time getting dentures was real common.
68
posted on
10/15/2015 6:30:17 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
10/15/2015 6:33:01 PM PDT
by
uncitizen
(Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
To: Roos_Girl
Hi, Roos_Girl . . . I find this amusing. Some of the worst teeth in the world we've seen in the office have been in people from Great Britain. However, this Emeritus Professor is right that if someone is flossing wrong, they can do more damage than no flossing at all. If one were to floss downward from the top of the teeth toward the gums, instead of upward, they will be packing food particles and scraped off plaque where it should not be, into the gum line where it can rot, creating the problem flossing is intended to prevent in the first place. The headline, which was probably not written by the Professor, was designed to grab readers and clicks. Unfortunately, most people won't get much farther into the article
than the head line.
Our office's protocol is still the same. Brush with baking soda and every week rinse and swish around the teeth with Dakin's Solution (a 1 to 20 Clorox Germicidal to water solution) to kill whatever bacteria survive the baking soda. Use a power type irrigator to get the solution down into the gum line. Floss. . . properly. Done.
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posted on
10/16/2015 11:26:30 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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