Is It Better to Floss Before or After You Brush Your Teeth?
- angelaroberts4
- Jan 4, 2017
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 17, 2018
Which comes first? Flossing or brushing? It has been a long-standing debate with no universally accepted answer.
Key takeaways:
Practicing good oral hygiene is of utmost importance in keeping your teeth in good health.
Flossing before brushing is recommended since it will ensure that we don't forget to perform this tedious task.
Another school of thought recommends flossing AFTER brushing to make sure that fluoride gets into the spaces between the teeth.
The bacteria around the teeth organize themselves as colonies and [flossing] stirs them up. If we get in there and stir them up every 24 hours we render them less dangerous.
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