"People who smoke cigarettes, they say:
“You don’t know how hard it is to quit smoking.”
Yes, I do. It’s as hard as it is to start flossing." - Mitch Hedberg
The issue is, if you start flossing here and there, then they start recommending every night. If you do that, they recommend after every meal.
Feels like a negative sum game.
A negative gum game, if you will
They must have eventually wrote something in my file. A few years ago the nagging stopped and the dentist just says “I’ll take what I can get” after asking how often I floss.
Just do a quick tour with a toothpick before brushing at night. Costs almost no time nor effort, yet is a massive improvement.
My dentist sez flossing is on it’s way out, everybody should start using these really small interdental toothbrushes anyway.
I can’t even get floss between some of my teeth without shredding it how am I supposed to get a toothbrush in there. If floss or a waterpik, which I really should buy, can’t do it, I’m out of luck.
I floss when I get shit between my teeth. I eat popcorn most nights so I floss most nights. It works out.
Biggest fan of flossing
I’ve fallen in and out of the habit of regular flossing, but I have learned that if you start doing it everyday about 2 weeks before your dentist appointment, they can’t tell the difference.
Who’s the guy on the left supposed to be?
Asking for a … uhh… friend.
that’s The Dentist. He’ll sneak into your home while you’re taking a nice quiet poop and forces his fingers into your mouth to make sure you’re flossing.
if he finds out you’re not, he scrapes your gums until they bleed and tells you about the dangers of gingivitis while soft-rock from the 70s and 80s mysteriously plays somewhere in your house.
when he leaves he gives you a toothbrush and toothpaste in a weird flavor (like shrekin green apple or black panther licorice) and leaves a trail of floss containers in the shape of molars.
whatever you do, don’t tell him you do floss. he’ll call you a liar and cut your gums open with his razor sharp floss and then force you to rinse with 1000 proof mouthwash.
The dentist?
(Tone doesn’t carry, so I’m asking like, do you mean the guy on the left/dentist, not "the dentist!?, if that makes any sense.)
