evening thoughts
Nov. 7th, 2003 04:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiI ponder the mysteries of flossing.
Is it more effective to floss first and then brush, or to brush first and then floss?
What if I've flossed... and then decide that I am hungry enough for dinner after all? If I had anticipated eating again, I would have waited until after to floss. Was flossing before eating a complete waste of time?
How do I know this isn't a waste of time anyway? It did seem that the dentist spent less time than usual scraping my teeth with that metal hook this last time. But he seemed to think that it was because I was so prompt in getting a cleaning, exactly 6 months after the previous cleaning. I guess a couple of years elapse between, usually.
How many minutes spent flossing are a worthwhile trade-off for one minute spent having my teeth scraped with a metal hook? Am I getting the up-side of that trade?
Surely twisting thin, tough string around my fingers every day for years is bad for the fingers.
Obviously in one of those rebellious moods... where the inner child whines "why am I doing this?" Safer to rebel against flossing than against filing tax returns.
Is it more effective to floss first and then brush, or to brush first and then floss?
What if I've flossed... and then decide that I am hungry enough for dinner after all? If I had anticipated eating again, I would have waited until after to floss. Was flossing before eating a complete waste of time?
How do I know this isn't a waste of time anyway? It did seem that the dentist spent less time than usual scraping my teeth with that metal hook this last time. But he seemed to think that it was because I was so prompt in getting a cleaning, exactly 6 months after the previous cleaning. I guess a couple of years elapse between, usually.
How many minutes spent flossing are a worthwhile trade-off for one minute spent having my teeth scraped with a metal hook? Am I getting the up-side of that trade?
Surely twisting thin, tough string around my fingers every day for years is bad for the fingers.
Obviously in one of those rebellious moods... where the inner child whines "why am I doing this?" Safer to rebel against flossing than against filing tax returns.
