creepy lady flossing
So, while on my mission (5 years ago), I served with a senior missionary couple named the Tuellers. Well, Elder Tueller is some world famous dentist (not really, but almost - he was the dean at the University of Pacific or San Francisco or something like that, and currently (I think) teaches lectures at BYU) told us one district meeting that flossing is unnecessary. WHAT? But we've all been told that it's a must. That our teeth would become covered in mold and eventually fall out if we didn't do it. Night after night we perfected the proper flossing technique. We labored so intensively to get that perfect smile, and for what? So it was all a lie? All that time wasted! I felt so...betrayed. 23 years (at that point - 28 yrs now) of harsh treatment to my sweet little gums? Well, was he really right? I thought "He's old, probably senile...he doesn't really remember proper methods of dental hygiene." Wrong! Again it was confirmed to me recently by Morgan's brother Jared (in his 4th year in dental school...also single for any of you looking/available women out there). Flossing is not essential nor necessary. Unless you are specifically prone to getting cavities between your teeth, you do no need to do it. I, from here on out, refuse to floss. Who's with me?
5 comments:
I am soooo with you. I have been for a long time now. :) But up until now I have been living that life full of guilt and anxiety over my next visit to the dentist, knowing he would be secretly throwing up in his mouth at all my "mold". That is sick! I DO NOT HAVE MOLD!!:)
I totally can't not do it. I have to floss. I'm not even really prone to cavities. I just have to do it for peace of mind.
And I brush twice.
The touble is that I DO get cavities between my teeth! That's the only place I get them- it's so so so sad. So I will continue the regimine in order to prevent the wretched drill from entering my mouth more than necessary.
I think that the only time I have ever flossed is 5 minutes before actually sitting in the dentist's chair just so I could look at the dentist in the eye when he asked if I flossed and I said that I had. Then the crazy hygentist would come along and floss all over again and all the blood all over the place would be a dead give away. Flossing is for people that would rather not stay in bed for an extra 2 minutes!
OH MY HECK THIS IS AN ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS! Ok that's probably being a little dramatic. But wow, I'm super happy to hear this, especially since I was at the dentist a month ago and got the same lecture about not flossing and how my teeth will rot and I'll get gum disease...whatever! Every time I floss, my gums bleed. They are super sensitive. Maybe it's worse now that I'm pregnant, but still, I hate tasting blood in my mouth. If my teeth fall out, I'll be happy with veneers.
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