Tell your dentist to suck it: there’s little evidence flossing works
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#2While exciting news, with an interesting, counter-intuitive finding, that is a horrible (though accurate) title and worse article.
Here is the original story: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f7e66079d9ba4b4985d7af350619a...
and HN posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12210772
Re: Tell your dentist to suck it: there’s little evidence flossing works
#3"Anon, I suggest you start flossing more regularly to clean debris in-between your teeth"
"No thanks Mr. Dentist, an article I read on the internet said that is dumb :-)"
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#5Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
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#6Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
Personally I floss daily as well as Waterpik on most days, but don't you think that may just be a confirmation bias?
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#7Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing.
Source: I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. (If either of us ever smells or has a bad appearance, we're pact-bound to tell the other.) I floss twice a year: 48 hours before my dentist appointments, the times I've had bad breath have not been flossing related.
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#8Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing. Source: I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. (If either of us ever smells or has a bad appearance, we're pact-bound to tell the other.) I floss twice a year: 48 hours before my dentist appointments, the times I've had ba…
> I have a hygiene pact with a coworker.
Huh, that's a cool idea :) Is that common (under another moniker maybe)? I can't find anything on Google. Just proposing such a pact can probably be tricky, but I've been thinking about something similar recently.
Re: Tell your dentist to suck it: there’s little evidence flossing works
#9Be that as it may, I can smell somebody who doesn't floss from 10 feet away. You should floss if not for yourself, then at least for the rest of us.
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing. Source: I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. (If either of us ever smells or has a bad appearance, we're pact-bound to tell the other.) I floss twice a year: 48 hours before my dentist appointments, the times I've had ba…
Look up origin of halitosis. It's just a name for bad breath made up by Listerine, not actual illness.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bullshit. Some people have halitosis, some people just don't brush regularly. There is one of my coworkers who occasionally has really bad breath, but it's not clear that he just missed a flossing. Source: I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. (If either of us ever smells or has a bad appearance, we're pact-bound to tell the other.) I floss twice a year: 48 hours before my dentist appointments, the times I've had ba…
> I have a hygiene pact with a coworker. Huh, that's a cool idea :) Is that common (under another moniker maybe)? I can't find anything on Google. Just proposing such a pact can probably be tricky, but I've been thinking about something similar recently.
> I've been thinking about something similar recently.
"Hey, dude, do you want to have a personal hygiene pact? Ok, great, because I have something to tell you..."