Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines

Re:Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines by greggman on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:41AM (#12218219)

Where is this research that flossing is "an obvious way to disrupt pathogenic bacterial colonies by abrasion".

Here's some research that claims flossing actually causes problems.

"Dental flossing can produce bacteraemia in periodontally healthy and periodontally diseased individuals at a rate comparable with that caused by some dental treatments for which antibiotic prophylaxis is given to prevent IE." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-051X.2008....

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Re:Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines by nextos on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @06:08PM (#12221941)

Thanks. This is a good point, which I agree on.

But in general, interdental flossing is very good against contact cavities [1]. Perhaps deep flossing is leading to bacteraemia. I have always found hard and awkward to perform deep flossing, and that's why I use oral irrigators instead. However, maybe irrigation also leads to bacteraemia. I've seen some references supporting that too.

[1] http://jdr.sagepub.com/content/56/6/574.short

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