Dental floss was first invented in the early 1800s by Levi Spear Parmly, a dentist from New Orleans who believed that, by dislodging matter caught between the gums, we could prevent the real source of oral diseases.
Although flossing as part of daily dental care didn’t take hold until the 1950s, nowadays flossing once per day is pretty much universally recommended by dentists everywhere to prevent cavities and gum disease.
Despite a highly publicized investigation by the Associated Press – which found the existing literature on the effectiveness of flossing to be weak, low quality, and potentially biased (the …read more
Source: Natural Living Ideas
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