[Juicy_Fucked_Vagina]

Flossing your teeth every day is the best way to prevent gum disease and protect your heart. Gum disease, which is left untreated, can lead to inflammatory reactions in the body that can trigger heart disease and stroke.

[julieg]

I didn't know gum disease could lead to heart disease or strokes. Good reason to floss!

[Miss_C.]

Juicy_Fucked_Vagina, on Sat Jul 16, 2011 05:19 PM, said:

Flossing your teeth every day is the best way to prevent gum disease and protect your heart. Gum disease, which is left untreated, can lead to inflammatory reactions in the body that can trigger heart disease and stroke.

MissMadison, on Tue Jul 19, 2011 01:17 PM, said:

I didn't know gum disease could lead to heart disease or strokes. Good reason to floss!

I knew that oral hygiene is linked to heart health. However, I disagree that flossing is the BEST way to protect one's heart. You also need to try to maintain a healthy blood pressure by watching your diet (especially your intake of salt and saturated fat) and getting regular physicals to make sure - especially as you get older - that plaque isn't building up in your arteries. Regular screenings for things like your cholesterol level are important. Exercise is important. Also, smoking can negatively affect your heart. Without these other things, just flossing every day will not keep your heart healthy.

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[Shakeyman]

I didn't know that not flossing could lead to heart disease. But I floss at least once a week due to the fact that I have a bridge across my front teeth and keeping them clean prevents any food from getting stuck plus it is great oral hygiene.

[citrussweet]

I don't usually floss. But I recently went to the dentist for a cleaning and my hygienist said something that has stuck with me... The surface of your teeth that you brush is only about 60% of all the surface area of your teeth. So when you don't floss, you're missing 40% of your teeth being cleaned. I've flossed every single day since!

[Atta The Pyro]

Flossing your teeth is not the best way to protect against heart disease or a stroke, it is however one of the ways to reduce certain risk factors.

You see a healthy heart and healthy blood vessels will be nearly completely unresponsive to the effects of plague bacteria consumed by the body and the chemicals that leech into the blood stream through the oral blood vessels and through consumption.

However as with any inflammatory (for instance red meat or high salt contents) a heart or blood vessel that is vulnerable to inflammation can be tipped over the edge by the inflammatory effect of chemicals that get into the blood stream from dirty teeth.



For instance, if you have a heart that is vulnerable, for instance has an atherosclerotic plug then any inflammatory, plague caused chemicals, high blood salt, sulphur rich diet etc can all cause that fatal heart reaction.






The only other side to this is that certain chemicals that get into the blood stream from plague bacteria have been suggested to be linked to the micro fissures that provide a place for lipid chains to bind to the surface of blood vessels increasing the likelihood of atherosclerosis, but then again all sorts of things from ageing, to exercise, to meat, to genetics have been linked to these blood vessel micro fissures.

[citrussweet]

Interesting!

[julieg]

I've been flossing daily, I figure if it helps my teeth and possibly my heart then it's worth it. Fresh breath is always nice as well.

[BaileyB]

Am I the only one who things this thread is just a bit....um..weird?

[mike ekim]

I floss just because I don't want crappy looking gums.

[3NakedNuns On A Skateboard]

Oral hygiene is as important as getting your routine check up's done,sometimes some people tend to ignore it unless there is some pain which is the worst time to figure out.Tooth aches,swollen gums can pain like a bitch so keeping the oral hygiene up is always a good thing.

[peterwimsey]

i try to floss at least a couple of times a week

[Hilarious Bastard]

Can't live without floss!
Going more then a day makes my teeth feel odd....
When you see the gunk and bits of meat, that floss dislodges, imagine how your breath must smell.....

[Playmyass]

I floss and I love my teeth..

[peterwimsey]

i actually find flossing quite addictive - i wonder how much is too much? i mean i only do it a few times a week - but is there a point where it becomes dangerous to your gums etc - i am quite gentle im not in there giving it a good scrape

[Brian]

Flossing is key to keeping your teeth clean and for your oral health. Certainly infections can enter through your mouth, so you want to keep your your mouth clean by flossing and using mouthwash too.

[English]

i always try to floss at least a couple of times a day.

[SixT9]

I keep floss with me at work and home so when something annoying is stuck, I can remove it. As for just normal flossing, usually once a day, if I remember. I do brush my teeth faithfully twice a day and have my whole life.

[Saysoon]

I would floss about 3 times a week, but do keep a box of floss in my handbag for emergencies. Would brush my teeth at least 5 times a day morning, before bed and after each meal. Will have to work on flossing more alright.

What do you all brush your teeth with, I change between toothpaste and salt (I don't use salt in any of my cooking and cook 95% of the food here from fresh). Why I ask is my Dad used salt all his life to brush his teeth, never had a filling and only ever needed to get one tooth removed after an abcess. When he died he had all his own teeth.

[got2bgood]

Flossing at least once a day or more often if needed is a great thing. There are many studies out there that link oral health care to heart issues as well, so the more we do in the oral department can only be a win win.

I also would like to add some information that I got recently when I went to an oral specialist. Apparently dental offices that offer cleaning services only do superficial cleaning at or just slightly below the gum line and do not allow enough time for a good cleaning to happen. They wont typically refer you to a specialist who can really clean below the gum line where disease begins until after they notice you have something going on like that. My question is what's up with this? I had gum issues and didn't even know it till it was too late and had to go to the specialist. And its not for lack of good hygiene either as that has always been my goal, but it still happened none the less. Specialists will also tell you that a lot of people have gum disorders and don't even know it...or know it until its too late in many cases. Gum disorders lead to erosion of the jaw bone material around the teeth so its not something you will notice until issues arise. Probably not until loose teeth are noticed or some discomfort sets in.

My advice to anyone even oral fanatics is to schedule a deep cleaning session with a specialist. You can have your dentist refer you. These people can and will clean each tooth all the way down the root if necessary and prevent you from having to get dentures in a lot of cases even if some issues have already set in. A deep cleaning can also involve up to four visits to complete since they prefer to maintain a comfort level by only doing one quadrant at a time.

Think you have clean teeth and gums...think again. What the dentist might say and what is really going on might be two different things.