I expect that the main reason that your post doesn’t recommend flossing is due to the lack of good evidence-based studies that show the benefits of flossing.
Funding more research into dental health to see whether intervention such as flossing should be rolled out more broadly, might be a good use of money.
Other cheap interventions such as tongue scrapping likely also deserve to be studied to check whether they are beneficial for oral health.
Yep! I do think flossing is good, but I suspect it’s less impactful/ helpful than fluoride (especially fluoride added to water/ milk/ salt).
Thanks! I didn’t especially look into tongue scraping, but I’ll check it out a bit more. My general sense would be that it would be tricky to persuade people to do regularly, in comparison to something ‘automatic’ like fluoridated salt.
I expect that the main reason that your post doesn’t recommend flossing is due to the lack of good evidence-based studies that show the benefits of flossing.
Funding more research into dental health to see whether intervention such as flossing should be rolled out more broadly, might be a good use of money.
Other cheap interventions such as tongue scrapping likely also deserve to be studied to check whether they are beneficial for oral health.
Yep! I do think flossing is good, but I suspect it’s less impactful/ helpful than fluoride (especially fluoride added to water/ milk/ salt).
Thanks! I didn’t especially look into tongue scraping, but I’ll check it out a bit more. My general sense would be that it would be tricky to persuade people to do regularly, in comparison to something ‘automatic’ like fluoridated salt.