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CONSUMERS REPORT

You might remember that, at the suggestion of my dental technician, I bought a water pik for the health of my gums.

I got a portable, rechargeable model which billed itself as a substitute for flossing.

Well, I went for that immediately. I took it up exclusively. It certainly worked for the gums. I would bleed a little for the first weeks. And I quit flossing.

The technician had said that one still needed to floss. I spent almost all my life as a non-flosser and only took it up the last three or four years because I had so much tooth grief.

Now, I decided, I could put the floss down and do it with water.

I went for my four month checkup the other day and did not tell them anything about it.

She remarked alsmost immediately about how much better my gums looked, much less tartar and so on. I told her about the water pik and then unloaded the big news, no flossing.

Quite and impact. I think that they still disapprove of not flossing but the results were there. No prompting at all and they cannot deny their own assessment of my "work" on my teeth since the last time.

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