Healthy gums don’t bleed, and are not painful to floss at all.
I’m in my 30s and only recently learned flossing technique and got my gums healthy. Flossing used to take so long and always involved a lot of bleeding no matter how delicate I was.
These days I’m absolute savage with floss and interdental brushes and never have any blood or pain.
Once you get your gums healthy you’ll be disgusted at yourself for ever not flossing. The amount of disgusting I can floss out on an almost daily basis is insane.
Plus you’re breath will not smell gross anymore.
It’s worth committing to the habit of flossing. Trust me.
This does run counter to my own experience. Flossing definitely does remove old food and plaque from in between my teeth, I can see it. Are you saying removing this has no effect on dental hygiene?
In addition, I had a dentist appointment this week and they said some of my gums were slightly receding, and that if I floss there more regularly it will help the gums. I’m going to floss daily and see if there is any improvement at my next checkup in six months.
Is there a remind bot on lemmy?
FWIW I had the same problem (receding gums) and improving my flossing even a little has helped.
There is!
@remindme@mstdn.social 6 months
@NekoRogue @Gigan (dev here) we currently don’t support creating reminders that last for months, though it’s something that we may add soon!
Thank you, that explains why it didn’t work! Is it the phrasing or the amount of time? Like if I was to write 180 days instead of 6 months, would it work?
@NekoRogue (dev here) 😄 yes it would work
How did the dentist appointment go, Gigan?
Its next Tuesday, I’ll let you know
All right let’s do a little adjusting here then
@remindme@mstdn.social 7 days
I know I am way too invested in this, but at this point I really want to know the results. How’d it go?
Inconclusive. Dentist said everything looked fine, but they didn’t measure my gums with the tiny ruler like they did last time.