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Re:Why You Should Never Skip Flossing Your Teeth by Ives on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:52PM (#5098454)
Ehm, I'll admit that at this time no causal link is established although there is a correlation [1]. I've come to realize that I don't have a good source for what I wrote earlier.

Sources like [2] do claim a causal link but I was unable to find the actualy study.

[1] http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=193088#qu... [2] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dental-screenings-linked-lower-...

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Re:Why You Should Never Skip Flossing Your Teeth by run4yourlives on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @12:59PM (#5098497)
To be clear, I don't want to discount the studies completely, because there does seem to be a little bit of smoke there.

That said any real conclusions are clearly premature for the data, as science reporting tends to be these days.

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