It is flat like glide floss but better. It is a bit sweet as well as minty. The sweetner on it seems to provide a bit of texture and it helps get the bits of stuff from out from between the teeth better than glide floss.
I am addicted, I now floss daily sometimes twice daily.
Ultrafloss. It looks like yarn out of the container, all loose and springy. Pull it tight and you can get it between the tightest teeth–much better than the waxed and tape flosses. Once it’s between and in the looser area by your gums, release it and pul it through with one hand. This stuff will remove crap your hygenist leaves behind! And it tickles, too! Beats pain.
I can’t get the unwaxed kind between my teeth.
And I can’t take flavorings in the morning. I use a non-mint, non-menthol, non-cinnamon toothpaste, which is hard to find. I don’t like any of the above flavors with my morning coffee. Now if they had hazelnut floss, I migh try it.
J&J’s Gentle floss with flouride (* probably ALSO a crock *) I even put the Sensodyne toothpaste ON the floss, and reapply a dab every few teeth. Brush, Listerine and Act for extra flouride finishes the whole deal.
Ultrafloss is great; otherwise Glide, waxed, plain.
My teeth are set together very tightly, so it’s hard to squiggle unwaxed floss between them.
I don’t care much one way or the other about flavor, save I hate the taste of cinnamon.
Hey, Unc, don’t sweat it. Elsewhere aha is giving step by step details of his bathing routine. So buck up, big guy. What’s the best beer to gargle with?
Speaking of gargling with beer and dental habits… (HIJACK/)
Setting: I am a younger tyke (25-ish) and unfamiliar with many flavourings and spices, I engage in a bender at a friend’s house that centers first around ouzo, then flaming samboucas. Mistakes are made. By 2:00 AM it becomes apparent that I shant return to my own home that night due to an overindulgence and frankly I feel very very queasy. I can no longer BEAR the sight, smell, or concept of ouzo, anise, etc. However, being truly anal retentive about my dental hygiene, regardless of my state I MUST always brush my teeth before bed (and also due to this I pack my own toothbrush to such events). So I stagger up to the house bathroom and search for toothpaste. Of course I innocently find (drum roll) in this progressive household only Tom’s of Maine FENNEL toothpaste and proceed. . . (/HIJACK)
Me, I never floss, I hate it and I have never had a cavity. Dentist never mentions I should start. I think its a total crock, if it makes you bleed, you probably shouldn’t do it.
Actually dental floss is the absolute best thing to re-string pearls, etc. and if unflavored can be used quite effectivley to bind poultry before cooking.
And in a pinch, it can be used to sew stuff when you’re camping and you don’t really want to fray out the hem of your flannel shirt for thread.
Dental floss gets really exciting when one wraps it around another person’s neck, hold both ends in a cross-armed and then pull back real hard. Or when it is used instead of a g-string. See, I found non-boring uses for it. Not that I advocate it though.
We kids here at culinary school found a new use for unflavored, unwaxed dental floss.
It cuts cheesecake like you wouldn’t believe. Wonder how a restaurant cuts their cheesecake slices perfectly, but when you go home, it always sticks to your knife? You take a length of floss, pull it taut, and press it through the cake. Once you get down to the crust, let go of one end, and drag it through.
Is it important to rotate the part of the floss that actually goes between each tooth? The dental hygenist sometimes flosses my teeth, and she always unwinds a little from one finger and winds it around the other one, so a fresh section of floss actually takes the plunge. I also had a girlfriend who said that it was important to do this, or you’d move bacteria from one tooth-gap to the next.
On the other hand, in a spitty environment like your mouth, it seems like bacteria would move around pretty freely. How about those little “sabre” things, where it’s a plastic toothpick with a little section of loss on the hook end? Are you supposed a different sabre for each tooth-gap?