Do you guys floss?

[Beebo]

The dentist tells me to do it daily, I probably floss about twice a month.

I'm sure there are benefits in flossing but I have never got into the regular habit of doing it. I wouldn't dream of not brushing twice a day, but I just cant get into the flossing regime.

 

[Archie_tect]

Dentist recommends flossing, but never got into it.

 

[ianrauk]

Every day for me, or my lovely young dentist lady tells me off...

 

[swee'pea99]

"Only floss the ones you don't want to lose." - NY dentist​

My dentist was most insistent. I use those little interdental brushes too.

I was really shocked a couple of years back when he did a little delving around in between my teeth and showed me just how far my gums had receded - there was a major pothole in every gap. The way I made flossing routine was by taking the floss sticks and brushes out of the bathroom (where I never remembered) and keeping one of each tucked into a book next to where I watch tv in the evenings. At some point in the evening, I always suddenly think - 'floss' - and because it's only a matter of reaching out an arm, and I can do it while I watch, it's no bother. My gums are massively improved now.

 

[Yellow Fang]

My dental hygenist pesters me to floss every day too, but some days I don't get around to it.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I don't floss regularly and have several teeth missing and most of my teeth filled due to a lot of (fruit) sugar in my diet. It's even worse that I brush my teeth 2-3 times a day and my mother is a dental nurse. I do use the interdental brushes though and they're brilliant.

 

[dan_bo]

I floss most days- lady uses interdentals to good effect. To be honest though i'd rather have the lot knocked through and a one-piece monocoque gob fitted. Much less maintenance.

 

[Archie_tect]

Interdental brushes are great but I find floss too fiddly- I don't have closed up gaps between my teeth so it's not as critical as I had 6 perfectly healthy adult teeth removed to make space as the school butcher dentist believed that modern jaws were too small for the normal number of teeth and said my teeth were too crowded.

He's the one who also filled teeth so often all you were left with was the perimeter enamel- the amalgam with mercury in it, without any anaesthetic. I suspect he was paid for each filling/ extraction.

You can tell I'm not bitter... Dr Lipman he was called, possibly worked as a torturer in the war.

 

[penguinking9]

Was this him?

 

[perplexed]

I floss probably 8 days out of 10.

I rather enjoy my trips to the dentist's hygenist. She is rather lovely.

 

[RaRa]

I hate doing it but after some really bad constant tooth ache that took over 2 years to resolve I've just gotta do it or lose the teeth.

 

[swee'pea99]

Interdental brushes are great but I find floss too fiddly- I don't have closed up gaps between my teeth so it's not as critical as I had 6 perfectly healthy adult teeth removed to make space as the school butcher dentist believed that modern jaws were too small for the normal number of teeth and said my teeth were too crowded.

He's the one who also filled teeth so often all you were left with was the perimeter enamel- the amalgam with mercury in it, without any anaesthetic. I suspect he was paid for each filling/ extraction.

You can tell I'm not bitter... Dr Lipman he was called, possibly worked as a torturer in the war.

YeGods! Nitemare!

 

[ASC1951]

After every meal! My teeth are quite close together, so little bits of food get stuck there and it's the only way to get them out.
I use dental tape because I find that floss is too narrow and can cut the gums.

I also use a proper mouthwash first and last thing. In fact if I hadn't had perfectly healthy teeth filled by the school dentist, as Architect did, I would probably still have cavity-free teeth. Dentistry has moved on a lot since the 50s and 60s.

 

[MacB]

Another one here with nightmare early memories of dentists, though I blame Scottish parenting for a lot of that, I had a ridiculously large amount of fillings done at age 4, sans anaesthetic of course.

Still, as ASC says things move on, adding up the ages of my 3 sons gives 43 years and not a filling between them.

 

[Maz]

I try to floss every day and mouthwash.

As a kid, the only time I brushed my teeth was the day before I went to the dentist for a checkup. My parents came from Pakistan and they didn't know about the importance of dental hygiene, so they never got me into the habit of regular brushing. One day I had 12 milk teeth taken out!