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YSK: Flossing your teeth is only uncomfortable when your gums are unhealthy

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aussie.zoneYSK: Flossing your teeth is only uncomfortable when your gums are unhealthy - Aussie ZoneHealthy gums don’t bleed, and are not painful to floss at all. I’m in my 30s and only recently learned flossing technique and got my gums healthy. Flossing used to take so long and always involved a lot of bleeding no matter how delicate I was. These days I’m absolute savage with floss and interdental brushes and never have any blood or pain. Once you get your gums healthy you’ll be disgusted at yourself for ever not flossing. The amount of disgusting I can floss out on an almost daily basis is insane. Plus you’re breath will not smell gross anymore. It’s worth committing to the habit of flossing. Trust me.
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Imgonnatrythis

Oh man. Here we go. Reddit has a huge pro-flossing bias and it’s leaking over with all the refuges apparently. This gets me downvoted to absolute oblivion on reddit and likely will here as well, but I just want to remind everyone this is all anectodotal information. There’s not strong evidence that you really need to floss, so don’t let these flossers guilt you if it’s not your thing. I’m maybe a bit of an anti-dentite I guess, but buzz feed did a nice article on this and many sources also picked up the ap newsfeed on the lack of scientific data for this commonly pushed practice :

www.buzzfeed.com/…/this-is-our-watergate

BuzzFeedHere's The Man Who Showed The World That Flossing Doesn't WorkBy Ishmael N. Daro
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Gigan

This does run counter to my own experience. Flossing definitely does remove old food and plaque from in between my teeth, I can see it. Are you saying removing this has no effect on dental hygiene?

In addition, I had a dentist appointment this week and they said some of my gums were slightly receding, and that if I floss there more regularly it will help the gums. I’m going to floss daily and see if there is any improvement at my next checkup in six months.

Is there a remind bot on lemmy?

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NekoRogue

There is!

@remindme@mstdn.social 6 months

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Remind Me

@NekoRogue @Gigan (dev here) we currently don't support creating reminders that last for months, though it's something that we may add soon!

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NekoRogue

Thank you, that explains why it didn’t work! Is it the phrasing or the amount of time? Like if I was to write 180 days instead of 6 months, would it work?

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