Do you guys floss?

[biggs682]

tried it a coupple of times but dont do it often enough to get in the routine

 

[Drago]

Does wearing a very small mankini count as flossing?

 

[ASC1951]

I had a ridiculously large amount of fillings done at age 4, sans anaesthetic of course.

With a low speed, string driven, air-cooled drill, I trust? It used to reach right into your soul.

... adding up the ages of my 3 sons gives 43 years and not a filling between them.

And hurray for fluoridation, even if it was a commie plot.

 

[byegad]

I floss as I have receding gums and the dentist said it was because my teeth are close packed and a brush simply doesn't get into the gaps. So I floss, use inter-dental brushes in the few gaps where one will fit.

Since starting this 9 or 10 years ago I've had much less trouble with gums and teeth.

 

[Hugh Jampton]

Floss most days as I had crooked teeth and food built up between them. Had braces fitted in April and that has proved quite a challenge to flossing. Now have a collection of funny shaped toothbrushes, dental picks, floss and tape. Proves to be such a challenge now, I feel I need to limber up first!

 

[Pauluk]

I've started using intradental brushes and they are great. Much easier than buggering about with a bit of thin string.

 

[PapaZita]

Does this count?
http://www.purpleharry.co.uk/products/bike-floss

 

[Archie_tect]

Perfect for 11 to 32 teeth!

 

[Night Train]

I can't floss. The gaps in my teeth are either too close and tears the floss or so gappy that the floss is lost there.

I generally use a cocktail stick after meals to work in and around all my teeth to remove trapped food and to scrub out any plaque build up. I can get the stick to open up the tight teeth enough to get between them for a good clean.

Then I give them a good scrubbing with my Braun electric tooth brush.

 

[swee'pea99]

My dentist told me flossing was to keep the walls clean, interdental brushes to keep the floor healthy.

 

[Milo]

Nope and my teeth are in fairly good shape only one filling so far. Dentist did have to scrape tartar or whatever it is called off when i had the filling though.

 

[Saluki]

I tried flossing once and couldn't get the floss through the gap I allegedly have between my teeth. My teeth are quite straight but seem very tightly butted up together. I have lost 3 teeth. Once was a stray hockey ball when I was in my mid teens, the other was when a wisdom tooth was pulled out and some infection got in the gap there and took the tooth next door with it.

All the fillings I have were originally filled by the school dentist. Although I have had the fillings refilled/renewed, I have not had any new fillings since the school dentist, which leads me to believe that the school dentist filled teeth for the fun of it. Maybe he got paid by the filling.

 

[Peteaud]

Never have done.

 

[compo]

No I don't floss. I take them out and soak them overnight, far less bother!