Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
by PopeDotNinja on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:07AM
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My flossing tip is Gum's Butlerweave dental floss. My dentist recommended it to be about 7 years ago. I had been flossing twice a day for years with OK results using some dental floss on a stick thing, but I still got a talking to by the dentist because my gums we're not in great shaoe. He pulled out some Butlerweave and showed how to floss for real, and now my dentist appointments are quite boring.
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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
by AlexCoventry on Monday January 06, 2020 @12:03AM
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> showed how to floss for real
For me, that was the key development. Up to that point, I hadn't understood that the goal is to scrape plaque off the teeth, and had only been flossing to get food out from between my teeth. Once I understood that, flossing became much easier, not to mention, after a couple of weeks of reduced gun inflammation, more comfortable.
It was a dental hygienist who explained it to me, not a dentist... I think for dentists, there may be a bit of a conflict of interest.