[HN Gopher] The effect of flossing on the oral microbiome, gum d...
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       The effect of flossing on the oral microbiome, gum disease, and bad
       breath
        
       Author : david_l_lin
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-05-11 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bristlehealth.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bristlehealth.com)
        
       | d0mine wrote:
       | "A systematic review of 12 randomized control trials, published
       | in the Cochrane Database" hasn't found strong evidence.
        
         | ninesnines wrote:
         | Agreed. I think there does have to be more science done, and at
         | the end of the day I do think flossing helps. However it is a
         | little weird to me that this study just seems to throw out the
         | meta analysis of the other 12 studies and not have a discussion
         | about where those studies went wrong. I also think any study
         | done by a company without blinding etc is going to be prone to
         | a lot of bias.
        
       | Maursault wrote:
       | I just knew the recent (a few years ago) announcement that
       | dentists no longer recommended flossing (allegedly for lack of
       | positive effect) was subterfuge to drum up more business.
        
       | david_l_lin wrote:
       | cofounder at Bristle here. Unfortunately there is a lack of data
       | around the efficacy of behavioral, lifestyle, and product
       | interventions on oral health despite decades of dentists telling
       | their patients to "brush and floss more". We decided we would
       | share some of our findings with the community in an effort to
       | shed some light on the importance of the oral microbiome in oral
       | health.
        
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         | NIL8 wrote:
         | Useful and to-the-point information. Thanks for sharing.
        
       | yakak wrote:
       | A few years back there was an interesting online course on CAMBRA
       | (Caries management by risk assessment). Basically they went with
       | a correlative approach to estimating oral health outcome to
       | assign points to behaviors and test them by intervention.
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       | I found it interesting that they seemed unable to assign any
       | points to flossing. Basically any points they attempted to assign
       | were better allocated to correlated behaviors. If you floss you
       | probably wouldn't miss brushing for example..
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       | Personally I feel uncomfortable if I don't floss and it seems odd
       | to me that food particles between teeth wouldn't contribute to
       | cavity formation.
        
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