Using dental floss is a waste of time?

If you every day zealously brush your teeth with a special thread, then perhaps you have to waste your time in vain.

It turns out that there are too few reliable confirmations that the procedure is working. Therefore, in America, for example, these recommendations were removed from official sources. According to the Associated Press news agency, the studies conducted in this field in the last decade were too superficial.

Proof of the journalist

For example, journalist Jeff Donne, who studied the subject in depth, wrote: "Most of these studies were conducted using outdated methods, or too few people were tested and for a short time to draw any serious conclusions. So, some studies lasted no more than two weeks. And this is too little time for any oral disease to develop. "

Professor Damien Walmsley of the British Dental Association also confirmed that dental floss can be of little use. And small toothbrushes in this case are much more preferable, since they effectively clean the areas between the teeth. "The thread is not very useful," he added, "if the spaces between the teeth are not too tight."

And the best way to reduce the risk of developing caries and gum disease is certainly familiar to everyone:

• You need to brush your teeth twice a day with fluoride toothpaste;
• Undergo regular check-ups at the dentist;
• Reduce the consumption of foods that contain sugar.

Dental floss is not so useful

The professor said that he conducted 25 studies, during which he compared the results of using a toothbrush in conjunction with a thread with those obtained after using only the brush. He found that facts that speak in favor of dental floss are too unreliable.

The Associated Press notes that the spokesman for Johnson & Johnson, Mark Boston, who claimed that dental floss helps remove not only food leftovers, but also dental plaque, later declined to comment on the contradictory results of the research provided to him.

After that, it turned out that the council regularly used dental floss was removed from the official recommendations of the federal government in the field of health, due to the fact that its effectiveness has never been investigated as required.