# For three days: Choose between brush your teeth or floss.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-three-days-choose-between-brush-your-teeth-or-floss/798739>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-three-days-choose-between-brush-your-teeth-or-floss/798739 "2017-10-13T17:07:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-three-days-choose-between-brush-your-teeth-or-floss/798739/21 "2017-10-15T06:43:07Z")

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> [@FloatyGimpy](#):
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> I’m one of the very few who picked flossing. I’m a bit of an obsessive flosser and have floss-picks with me at all times. I could deal with fuzzy teeth for 3 days from not brushing but it’d be torture to not be able to pick out stuff from between my teeth. I brush twice a day but floss probably 6 or 7 times a day.

I also chose flossing. I floss every day and it feels good; it’s satisfying in a way that brushing isn’t. I could go without brushing for three days, bu it would drive me INSANE to have gunk stuck between my teeth that I couldn’t remove.

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-three-days-choose-between-brush-your-teeth-or-floss/798739/22 "2017-10-15T12:22:44Z")

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I almost never flossed, until one of my teeth moved weirdly, and left a funny gap between it and the one next to it. Now stuff gets stuck there. I use toothpicks, floss, and a waterpik on it. And it drives me nuts if I don’t have one of those tools handy.

So I’m going to guess that different people have objectively different experiences with flossing.

That said, I’ll go without flossing, and use toothpicks for those three days. I hate flossing.

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**Author:** ![Dobbs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dobbs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dobbs)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-three-days-choose-between-brush-your-teeth-or-floss/798739/23 "2017-10-15T18:30:56Z")

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I’ve 3 places where big pieces of food can get stuck between my teeth, and brushing alone doesn’t always remove them. I’d either have to give up brushing, or be very careful what I ate.

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