Credit cards as Flossing ?!
You’re driving down the highway during rush hour while enjoying your McDonald’s breakfast sandwich. Mid-meal, a clump of sausage wedges itself between your teeth, up near your gums. It’s more irritating than the guy in the giant SUV zipping by you as he uses the shoulder as his personal lane. You can’t do anything about the rude driver, but the pork piece is another story.
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Using anything but floss to clean between your teeth can cause recession or abrasion of the gums, damage to the enamel or damage to the root surface.Your dental floss, of course, is home in your medicine cabinet so you look around the car. The laces from your son’s soccer cleats? Not only are they dirty, but they’ll never fit up there. How about the air-freshener string on the rear-view mirror
Hmm. A possibility.
While looking at the pine-tree-shaped freshener, you catch a glimpse of yourself — and your diamond studs — in the mirror. An earring post. Perfect! You pop the earring out of your ear, poke it between your teeth, dislodge the offending meat — and cut your gums in the process. Sound crazy? Gross? Believe it.
“When you’ve got half a meal stuck between your teeth, you’ve got to do something,” says Bill Winglosky a mortgage banker from Clifton Park, N.Y. The anything-goes attitude toward flossing is much to the dismay of Winglosky’s dentist.
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Whoa, this story is hilarious and yet so true. A piece of food stuck between the teeth can be very irritating sometimes. Always carry floss with you if you know a gap between the teeth existing somewhere in your mouth.
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