Short YouTube conversation (Ben Greenfield and another speaker) explaining that flossing is important not merely to remove food particles but to introduce oxygen beneath the gum line to kill anaerobic bacteria that cause bleeding. Emphasizes using a C-shape to get floss under the gum line rather than merely between teeth.
Flossing is not just to get food out from in between your teeth. Flossing is one of those things that people don't want to do, so you have to force yourself to do is important to get the floss underneath the gum line. And that's where the C shape comes into play. Because if you're just popping the floss in, you're not going under the gum. Flossing is not just to get food out from in between your teeth. It's actually to get oxygen under the gum line so that it can kill the bacteria that causes bleeding.
Wait, so you're saying even if I don't eat steak or corn on the cob and there's stuff stuck in my teeth, I should floss because the purpose of flossing is not just to get those little shards of food out?
Correct. Yes.
And explain again what. What the actual purpose is.
So you're getting oxygen under the gum. So if the bacteria that causes bleeding is anaerobic, they thrive without oxygen.
Right.
So when you're flossing, you're introducing oxygen under the gum line, which is going to kill the anaerobic bacteria.
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