tooth extraction is pretty archiac.
Reminds me of this comic!
I can’t floss because my teeth got screwed up by experimental orthodontics in the '80s. Anyone at the dentist office who gives me shit about not flossing is catching hands.
Why is there so many of these backwards ass medical memes on here today? This one came from another post
I too have to ask: backwards? A doc does X ray every day, you get ONE.
Backwards? There is nothing backwards about these memes.
The cow is backwards
If you floss regularly your gums won’t bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.
For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn’t going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.
Many people can’t floss. Me personally, I got experimental orthodontics in the '80s and they filed between my teeth and flossing has been excruciating ever since. I still have all of my teeth though, minus two wisdom teeth that were removed to create space (it wasn’t enough space)
This is one of few memes i really dislike. It is true, if you floss or use interdental brushes your gums wont bleed.
It’s such an easy thing you can test for yourself I’m kind of surprised so many people don’t understand that it works. Do you also ignore the advice you get from doctors?
Last time I went to dentist, at first everything was okay and I even got compliments on how clean my mouth was. Then I got stabbed by a needle to a gum and then yelled at for not flossing. Later on the dentist found the stabbing wound she did and apologised, yet kept on telling me to just go deeper with the floss, that there must be a hidden infection deeper down and I should not care about pain or floss cuts. Bad, bad advice.
I didn’t change shit. My gums don’t bleed UNLESS THEY GET STABBED.
lol that is lawsuit waiting to happened, if that had caused a abscessed blood infection. i wouldnt be surprised if thier yelp reviews had something similar on it from other patients.
No Yelps here, just the public dentist at my local health center, and the only one at that. I can’t afford to go private yay. (Not free, definitely not free this one either.)
80% of US doctors don’t know basic anatomy (a statistic i derived from the medical CPEs i taught), so yes I generally do ignore advice they give
They don’t do that if you floss daily, barring gum disease. Once you start it’s going to feel gross to not do it daily.
Interdental brushes are the way! No more gum issues since I started, and one habit I’m proud I developed. I had an xray where they showed how much the bacteria had eaten away at my roots - scared straight.
But then your teeth end up looking like this instead of nicely packed in with plaque
I’ve often imagined a little comic strip where a dentist goes to the doctor. the doctor draws blood for tests, or gives an injection, or just pokes/cuts the dentist for no reason. the doctor then says “you’re bleeding because you don’t shower enough”
Too many folks ITT with bad oral hygiene. Brush your teeth twice a day and floss at least once a day. I grew up in a very poor area and seeing sick folks who also had rotten and missing teeth made me realize how much dental health is connected with someone’s overall health.
also people nowawadays are obsessed with going flouride free for debunked science. the only reason people say thier “Teeth is cleaner with flouride free toothpaste” is because alot of these toothpaste are highly abrasive.
Fuck it I’m not flossing daily. It’s annoying enough to occasionally clean my braces.
I actually get nauseous while touching the inside of my mouth with a toothbrush (or when standing for too long, so that problem might be exclusive to me).
I’d rather just kill myself than have to brush more than two times a day and floss regularly.
If you have braces you really should have a water flosser. I’m kind of surprised your ortho didn’t recommend one, as mine made it a requirement
there are interdental floss, which are designed for braces. water flosser helps,dislodge food, but you need an actual floss to prevent tartar.
My wisdom teeth were growing sideways without me realizing for 29 years of my life so they had to be removed. They appointed me to this dentist that told me since they were so big and doing so much presure against the other teeth they had to be sliced up in pieces so she could extract them piece by piece.
This girl did put so much force and did so much pressurre against my jaw it dislocated and I felt like she was tearing it apart from my skull. I put my fist below it but felt like she was about to sink it in my chest. Did some mumbling due to the pain and discomfort (and because I was a bit scared too) and she had the audacity to, basically, call me a pussy.
Huh. With my impacted wisdom tooth they just broke it in half with a hammer and then twisted the pieces out with some calipers. The anesthesia was good, so I didn’t feel pain, but the crunching and scraping sounds were… off-putting.
they had to "ratchet mines out. it was growing at a 45 degree angle from the corner of my gums near the end because it was partially embedded still.
some dentist are scammy asf, a notable one in our area just tries to peddle DEEP CLEANING solely and others, tyring to peddle expensive procedures. i also bought back teeth flosser for molars, which the sideways one are not good at, very useful.
I went to one of those exactly once. If a doctor, vet, or dentist even gives me the slightest feeling that I’m being upsold rather than taken care of, I’m gone forever.
deep cleaning is shown as a scam, i remember distinctly when i still had my parents insurance this same dude would bring out pics of fucked up teeth and tried to convince people that deep cleaning is necessary. the current one im seeing just charges alot compared to other dentist that allows outof pocket cost.
What dentists are y’all going to?
Ones that don’t whittle on about flossing. In fact, one told me he preferred it if people didn’t because they were just pushing bacteria into their gums.
you are probably flossing it wrong, you arnt suppose to jam it into the gums that will cause erosions and bleeding, and potential infection. also just move it from side to side once, not SAW it like you are sawing wood. depending on which flosser you are using. you do and “up and down motion”
Don’t go back to that dentist… There’s a ton of research that proves flossing works as intended. Bacteria are really small, they don’t need assistance to go into your gums. The point of flossing is that it removes the food and biofilm that gets stuck between teeth that bacteria feed upon and multiply.
the other main thing is preventing tartar buildup which exacerbate all those other things.
It definitely at least stops plaque from forming, which otherwise irritates the gums so they eventually recede. Some people somehow just don’t get plaque for some reason so in that case it’s maybe pointless, but most people do.
It is funny though how dentists still feel closer to some kind of village shaman. Each performing their weird rituals, absolutely convinced that they’re correct and all others are clearly wrong. Probably because they’re not actual doctors and also happen to have a horrible monetary conflict of interest to let people have terrible teeth.
Some people somehow just don’t get plaque for some reason so in that case it’s maybe pointless, but most people do.
Brushing twice a day, properly (with good toothpaste and a good electric toothbrush) basically eliminates the need for flossing.
EDIT: ITT, people who don’t realize flossing is terribly ineffective and hasn’t been recommended by the US government for a decade now, because studies showed that the floss wire doesn’t provide enough friction to actually effectively clean anything. If you find that despite thorough brushing you still build up plaque, occasionally use a toothpick instead.
toothbrushes dont go between the teeth, or slightly under the gum line without damaging it.
Nope, not even with an electric one. It doesn’t get into the areas between the teeth at all if you’re using it at intended pressures.
A proper toothbrush has bristles for that specific purpose… Proper toothpaste gets into those areas too to help remove any plaque. If you maintain it properly, there’s no reason to floss in addition.
In fact, flossing is a terrible way to remove plaque. The wire itself doesn’t provide enough friction to remove just about anything. It’s why the US government hasn’t recommended daily flossing since 2016. It’s nice you can get a wire in between your teeth, unfortunately you’re not really cleaning anything with it there.
If you find you’re still building up plaque even after brushing thoroughly, use a toothpick instead, that is a more effective way to clean it.
Well I’m convinced that you’re on of those people that doesn’t get any plague, or maybe a dentist from the 1950s. That’s just not true for most people.
“US government does something since 2016” probably equals Trump gutted something important, hell even the US’s CDC has been defunded.
