Do you floss?

[balkii]

I don't know very many young people who floss. (BTW we are talking about teeth here, not bling). I do it every day (well maybe like 13/14). I love the clean feeling on my teeth that you can only get with flossing. I also dont have dental insurance, but if you floss and brush regularly and properly, you dont really need. A checkup once a year paid out of pocket is plenty.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

I floss 1-3 times a week. My teeth are pretty much made of fillings anyways.

[BusterStacks]

I have never EVER seen you floss and I used to live with you. I call BS.

[AncientPC]

No, and I have gingivitis or something, I'm scheduled for two "deep cleaning" visits at the dentist's. Go figure.

[Bluffoon]

If I had to give up my floss or my toothbrush my toothbrush would go.

[VBM]

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I'm scheduled for two "deep cleaning" visits at the dentist's.

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i had two last year, and if there's a greater euphemism for anything, i've never heard it. Deep cleaning's are painful and bloody and i hated myself for not flossing...good luck A-PC...

[MMMMMM]

Flossing is more important than brushing, as a form of dental care and preventive maintenance.

If you don't floss, you WILL have bad breath, regardless of how much you brush, or the brand of mouthwash you use.

If you don't floss, you WILL have bits of rotting food stuck between your teeth. Those rotting bits will become rotten bits.

I floss after every meal or snack when at home, and occasionally after occasional meals outside the home, too. It doesn't really take that long once you get a good system down and your mouth feels SO fresher immediately. Minimum for me is after breakfast and after the last meal of the day when on the road.

Would you want to carry around a bite of hamburger 20 days old from the dumpster, tucked neatly between your cheek and gum, like a wad of chewing tobacco? Pretty tasty, huh? Smells downright awesome too.

Well that's what you are doing if you don't floss, except that the bite of hamburger is in twenty little pieces and they are all rotting away between your teeth and gums.

Want to really get grossed out? If you don't floss, go ahead and floss right now. Bet the odor will knock your socks off as those bits of Gar-bage slide out of their hiding places. Just be sure not to swallow any of them, though, and rinse well after you spit them out or snap them off your floss string.

So wake up and smell the...garbage. Your breath truly stinks if you are not a regular flosser (at least once a day). Maybe your best friends won't tell you, but M will. Don't say M never did you any favors.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I have never EVER seen you floss and I used to live with you. I call BS.

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I started flossing about 8 months ago.

Before that it was once before the dentist.

[nolanfan34]

My wife is finishing dental hygiene school this year. That should make my answer obvious.

MMMMMM is right though. Flossing is probably more important than brushing. It's a downward spiral too if you don't - it hurts when you go to the dentist if you don't, so then you don't go to the dentist, and your teeth get bad, and then it really hurts to get a root canal.....and on, and on.

So, floss, people.

[fnord_too]

Man, I floss once a day but now I don't even feel good about that.