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I had a waterpik but it broke, so it's repurposed as a milk dispenser for the cat when we're away.
You only need to floss the teeth you want to keep.
Unless your German apparently? Aldi doesn't sell floss.
Exactly! And you can get yourself a Water Pik (or equivalent) for Extra Gummy Goodness!
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 :
Honestly man you can believe whatever you choose to. I’m not here to argue with anyone.
I’m in my 30s and went from having bad gingivitis with bleeding and pain during brushing, to having gums that are comfortable with being thoroughly physically cleaned every day and that makes me happy.
TIL there's a conspiracy about this. Fascinating.
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Flossing > brushing. You need both but if I could only have one, it would be flossing.
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