{"id":127,"date":"2006-11-04T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2023-07-24T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:09:13","slug":"floss-brush-and-rinse-the-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/floss-brush-and-rinse-the-right-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Floss, brush and rinse \u2013 the right way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out our parents were right. Brushing our teeth, flossing and using Listerine daily does protect us from cavities. As I used to defer to authority, I duly complied and have never had a cavity to this date.<\/p>\n<p>What would have been useful is to learn how to brush. I applied the tenacity of a Mr. Clean to my brushing endeavors using a hard tooth brush and essentially brushed my gums away. As a result, I had to have a gum graft this week which while less unpleasant that I was led to expect, I would not recommend to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially they take <strong>cadaver tissue<\/strong> and graft it to your gums to protect the base of your teeth and prevent them from falling off.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Floss, brush and use Listerine daily<\/li>\n<li>Use a <strong>soft<\/strong> tooth brush or an electric toothbrush (I highly recommend the Sonicare Elite 7500)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Very important<\/strong>: Do not use a horizontal motion with the toothbrush when brushing the front and back of your teeth. Use a vertical motion going from the gums to the top of the teeth (top-down for the top teeth, bottom-up for the bottom teeth).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out our parents were right. Brushing our teeth, flossing and using Listerine daily does protect us from cavities. As I used to defer to authority, I duly complied &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-musings"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Floss, brush and rinse \u2013 the right way!. Categories - Personal Musings. Date-Posted - 2006-11-04T20:45:06 . It turns out our parents were right. Brushing our teeth, flossing and using Listerine daily does protect us from cavities. As I used to defer to authority, I duly complied and have never had a cavity to this date.\n What would have been useful is to learn how to brush. I applied the tenacity of a Mr. Clean to my brushing endeavors using a hard tooth brush and essentially brushed my gums away. As a result, I had to have a gum graft this week which while less unpleasant that I was led to expect, I would not recommend to anyone.\n Essentially they take cadaver tissue and graft it to your gums to protect the base of your teeth and prevent them from falling off.\n Conclusion:\n Floss, brush and use Listerine daily\n Use a soft tooth brush or an electric toothbrush (I highly recommend the Sonicare Elite 7500)\n Very important: Do not use a horizontal motion with the toothbrush when brushing the front and back of your teeth. Use a vertical motion going from the gums to the top of the teeth (top-down for the top teeth, bottom-up for the bottom teeth).\n ","Category":["Personal Musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17526,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/17526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}