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1001 Uses For Dental Floss #12- Too Much Of A Good Thing

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Floss every day. That’s what your dentist tells you, but what she (or more rarely, lately, he, because there are fewer men engaging in the profession than ever before) doesn’t say is how to dispose of the used floss. Not in the toilet, according to a the people who manage Toronto’s sewage treatment. It lodges in the equipment, causing breakdowns and crashing the system. So be a good citizen, floss every day, and then drop it into the garbage can. By the way, the image is a photo of graffiti featuring floss, in, where else? – Brazil. (Notice: This is not a paid ad.)

1001 Uses For Dental Floss #11 – Surviving A Shark Attack

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Today’s blog is a bit gruesome, but no ugly pictures with this one, Stephanie. As reported in The Los Angeles Times (May 28, 1997) Gail Brooks, a quick-thinking nurse, saved her boyfriend’s life after he had his right arm badly bitten by a shark while spearfishing in the Bahamas. She used dental floss, which everyone there carries when swimming (just in case), to tie off an artery in his arm in order to control the bleeding. Her boyfriend was brought to a hospital in Miami, where he was in serious but stable condition.

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You too can be a hero – carry floss wherever you go. You never know when it might come in handy. 

http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/dental-floss

1001 Uses For Dental Floss #10- Monkeys Are Flossing

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If a monkey can learn to floss, so can you. Macaque monkeys in Thailand have been observed by researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University Primate Research Institute flossing their teeth with strands of human hair. Not only do they do that, but they also teach the good habit to their children, by exaggerating and slowing the movements involved when they see they’re being watched. Why the monkeys choose to use human hair is a mystery. Do they pull hair from their handlers heads? Maybe they like the smell of human hair after it’s been shampooed. Maybe they couldn’t get to their pharmacy or other source to buy dental floss.

So, act like a monkey. Floss.

<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21938016.html&gt;

1001 Uses For Dental Floss #6 – Floss in Engineering – The Troitsky Bridge Building Competition

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Post#5- Building model bridges

Concordia Society of Civil Engineers

Concordia Society of Civil Engineers

Every year since the 1980s, engineering students across Canada, and lately even from the U.S. take part in a bridge-building competition, constructing a model bridge using only toothpicks, Popsicle® sticks, dental floss and white glue. The bridges are then subjected to the CRUSHER which applies a force to test each bridge’s strength. The 2010 winning bridge supported an astounding 2733 kilograms before breaking.

Annual bridge-building challenge by Concordia University Civil Engineering Students

1001 Uses For Dental Floss #5 – Nicotine-containing Dental Floss ®

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Post#6- Floss with Nicotine Added- Yum!:
In 1991, a U.S. patent (#5,035,252) was issued for dental floss containing nicotine, which would kill two birds with one stone: improve oral hygiene and provide a substitute for cigarettes without the risk of cancer that comes from smoking or chewing tobacco. The introduction of nicotine chewing gum and the nicotine patch seem to have taken the wind out of the sails of this product. I haven’t seen any ads for this great idea. Can you imagine people getting up from their desks and pulling out a length of floss every half hour, just after getting that wild look in their eyes? Or, if co-workers objected, would the addicted ones gather outside in winter and floss their cold teeth? I wonder if they would need a prescription from a physician or would it be the dentist who would give it to them? Would they still have smoker’s bad breath and yellow fingers?

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1001 Uses For dental Floss #4 – Neanderthal Oral Hygiene

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Despite the title of this post’s link, the reason Christina Warinner gives for it being a good thing that our ancestors didn’t floss their teeth is completely selfish on her part, because if they had flossed, there wouldn’t be any calcified dental plaque on the teeth of the human fossils she studies, and she might have to get a different job. In fact, Paleontology Professor Juan Luis Asuarga of Spain has found evidence that our Neanderthal cousins about 63,400 years ago (not our Homo sapiens direct ancestors, who may have thought that flossing was too tedious) had grooves on the adjoining surfaces of their teeth, possibly caused by the use of a stick passed between the teeth as a cleaning aid. Not floss, but close.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jul/29/christina-warinner-archaeology-genetics-calculus

1001 Uses For Dental Floss #3 – Longer Life With Floss

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1001 Uses For Dental Floss #3 – Longer Life with Floss
Hidden among his usually more faddish recommendations, Dr. Oz says something that seemed indisputable: flossing daily can add to your life expectancy (6.4 years, it seems) by reducing complications of inflammation, such as heart disease and complications during pregnancy. This applies even more so for diabetics. This statement about a direct link was later retracted because of criticism from the American Heart and Stroke Association and the American Dental Association. Nonetheless, using dental floss regularly fits well in a basket with other good preventive health practices, such as eating well, regular exercise, and not smoking: individuals practicing these good habits tend to live longer, healthier lives.
And  you get to keep your teeth! Live longer and better. Floss every day, but also do all the other good stuff. If you don’t know how to floss, ask your dentist or dental hygienist.

http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/alex-naini-dds-lvif-fagd/do-i-really-have-floss

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/breaking-news-no-link-between-gum-disease-and-heart-disease