When dental care became so sophisticated due to high tech machinery and Novocaine that drilling no longer caused as much pain as it used to, that is when it seems that dentists started getting serious about torturing patients with medieval bloodletting practices of jabbing their gums with sharp objects and determining their level of disease advancement according to blood loss. In order to better immune myself as a warrior to this practice, I first took on the habit of flossing in 1990. For a month or so, I flossed after brushing, until I noticed dark stains developing around the spaces between my teeth. When I changed to flossing before, these stains disappeared! So DUH! I brush after!
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flossy!
Date: 2007-06-13 01:57 pm (UTC)