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DrPrimemaster posted...

What Ive read suggests that a common mistake is being too rough when flossing near the gum line. TC is probably right.

I'm a little surprised since there are dental blogs that seem to specifically raise the issue of trying to avoid putting pressure on the gums themselves

https://www.milnerdentistry.com/patient-information/blog/more-blogs/5-flossing-mistakes/

The problem is a lot of other sources don't really seem to address it directly, leaving some ambiguity:

https://www.healthline.com/health/how-to-floss#how-to-floss

I thought my dentist had always mentioned that I needed to at least make contact with the gums (although obviously there wouldn't be much pressure regardless, since you're supposed to floss going out rather than in). Then again, I guess a lot of the dental blogs aren't actually written by dentists, but instead by outside marketing agencies which source their information from other dental blogs.

Blighboy posted...

This goes against what I've been told by dentists

idk, are you really going to trust dentists over some guy on the internet? Feels a little off-brand for you.


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