I told my dentist how much I liked my water flosser, and he immediately said "that's fine but it's not very effective, you still need to use regular floss too".
I use both, and I can say that I definitely get more out from between my teeth with the water flosser. These days string floss is just for when I have something big stuck tightly that I know the water flosser won't be able to shift.
Came to post this. These things are frigging amazing and like $20. Absolutely everyone should have one. Really you can floss and brush and it still gets stuff. I wish they existed when I was younger! Buy one! Thank me later!
On the 'dentists don't really know what they're doing' front, my kid's orthodontist ($$$$) describes himself as a "fencing contractor". Conversely, I got the water flosser tip from an Indonesian dentist who I hired opportunistically on holiday for a clean; he turned up in flip-flops but decanted to bare feet during operating and gave the most sage advice I've ever had in 40+ years of dentists: BUY A WATER FLOSSER. Terimakasih, Doktor!
The marketing push was really effective, even on black & white TV.
The originals were so powerful that it would rarely leave anything more than floss would leave behind.
I can only imagine the water jet on new units over the decades got so much weaker maybe because somebody did some accidental eye damage or something.
What I like to do once a week is to use it with hot water, not too hot but about like hot coffee or tea which I do not drink.
I believe there are many types of germs that are highly adapted to thrive at your normal body temperature, and do not survive at temperatures too many degrees away from that.
This seems really good for the gums too not just between the teeth, and the modern offerings basically massage the gums when you pound them with the water jet, the old units would have been too painful for that.
Also on a deep minor toothache just getting started, which feels like it is way down between the root & bone, I have sprayed the tooth directly long enough to heat up the whole tooth which seems to work
I regretted it too after I went with an SE 2022. I thought the battery life would be better, and I thought I didn't want to swap Touch ID for Face ID.
18 months ago I bought a used iPhone 13 Mini, and much prefer it. I used to feel unhappy every time I held the SE 2022. I never liked the wider, rounded-edged shape of the iPhone 7/8. I'm finally going to get a battery swap for the 13 Mini from Apple this afternoon.
I'm hoping that stops me vaguely wondering about battery swapping for my SE 2016 (1st gen) and going back to using that. I don't think I'd want to go back to a camera that old, and too many apps are not supported. That was the last iPhone I really loved. Fastest smartphone on the planet in benchmarks when it was released, and in the rare event that it slipped out of your (someone else's) hand, it felt unbreakable compared to newer iPhones.
I don't know about anyone else, but anybody who goes into a "1970s library" (I don't know what that is, but I guess it means a good old-fashioned library with like, books) and complains about the lack of 3D printers or that their obscure animated series catalog isn't wide enough would embody the definition of an uninteresting person to me.
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