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Dental floss

Category: Dental
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I have discovered that normal single stranded dental floss slides through with limited capability for yaking out material caught between teeth. By doubling the strands and slightly twisting the two strands there is a much enhanced capability for grabbing material and removing it. If floss came with twisted double strands it would be much enhanced.

sand, Oct 19 2006

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Yaking is a nice descriptive term but unfortunately it is a typo of taking.

sand, Oct 19 2006

Sounds like it will work. I will try it out tonight. I have always thought dental floss was one of the most wasted resource around as you pull out a foot and a half but only use about two inches. I have also wondered if floss would be improved if it had knots in it to pull out stuborn particles caught between your teeth.

bkeene12, Oct 19 2006

I tried this out last night and ran into a problem... I couldn't get the dental floss between my teeth when it was doubled up.

bkeene12, Oct 20 2006

Johnson & Johnson makes a braided floss for you big gapped tooth people.

Hyenuf, Oct 27 2006