Earth Day Tip
We all floss our teeth. Right? You don't just lie to the dentist when he asks if you floss your teeth daily? Oggy hopes not. Because all the time you save by not flossing your teeth must be paid back in double when your teeth begin to fall out. Hours in a chair with a dentist digging around your gums. Why? Because you didn't have time to floss. Well, you'll find the time to get your gums cut open to save your jaw.
Anyway, when you start to floss after reading this Oggy will tell you what to do.
Most of us roll out a two foot long strand of floss and then cut it. Then wrap it around one finger and then the other. Then we try to floss and of course the floss rolls off one finger and loses tension and we can't floss. Or else you cut the blood flow to your finger and have to take breaks. Lame! It's almost better to just lose your teeth! So Oggy has figured out a method. Don't cut the floss before flossing. Leave one end attached in the box. Better yet take the whole roll out of the box. Hold the roll in your hand. Then roll out enough to wrap around only one finger. Then go ahead and floss. See the floss will remain attached to the roll, which is easier to hold onto. And it won't cut the blood flow off to one of your fingers.
In fact, while Oggy is typing this he has figured out an even more ingenious method: Take 1 dental floss roll and take the floss and attach it TO ANOTHER EMPTY roll. Then just floss with the floss in the middle of the two rolls. And when you are done just roll an inch or two onto the "used" roll.
If it bothers you to touch used dental floss then wash it off after you use it. That's basically what you do with a toothbrush.
The reason this is an Earth Day tip is because A) if you don't lose all your teeth then you won't use all those future resources going to the dentist. That's worth some waxed thread. and B) You'll use less waxed thread this way!
Now go floss!
Anyway, when you start to floss after reading this Oggy will tell you what to do.
Most of us roll out a two foot long strand of floss and then cut it. Then wrap it around one finger and then the other. Then we try to floss and of course the floss rolls off one finger and loses tension and we can't floss. Or else you cut the blood flow to your finger and have to take breaks. Lame! It's almost better to just lose your teeth! So Oggy has figured out a method. Don't cut the floss before flossing. Leave one end attached in the box. Better yet take the whole roll out of the box. Hold the roll in your hand. Then roll out enough to wrap around only one finger. Then go ahead and floss. See the floss will remain attached to the roll, which is easier to hold onto. And it won't cut the blood flow off to one of your fingers.
In fact, while Oggy is typing this he has figured out an even more ingenious method: Take 1 dental floss roll and take the floss and attach it TO ANOTHER EMPTY roll. Then just floss with the floss in the middle of the two rolls. And when you are done just roll an inch or two onto the "used" roll.
If it bothers you to touch used dental floss then wash it off after you use it. That's basically what you do with a toothbrush.
The reason this is an Earth Day tip is because A) if you don't lose all your teeth then you won't use all those future resources going to the dentist. That's worth some waxed thread. and B) You'll use less waxed thread this way!
Now go floss!
posted by Oggy Bleacher | 12:36 AM
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