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Floss Death Blow?

Floss Death Blow?

8/2/2016 6:30:05 PM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 102

I was floored tonight when NBC Nightly News ran a story testing the supremacy of flossing as an oral hygiene benefit!!  There is no way this segment could be true, could it?  Apparently, the Associated Press (AP) challenged the government's claim that flossing improve oral health.  Refuting the benefits of flossing gained traction when both the Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture failed to produce the research confirming the efficacy of flossing.  

I prefer the knowledge I consume to be supported by randomized controlled trials, and apparently flossing in not one of them.  Now I would NOT condemn flossing just because the data backing it up is not gold standard science.  This leads a deeper personal question for individuals and to the profession as a whole, "What level of proof do we need to be convinced that a certain action is good or bad for us". We all may want to think about future conversations with our patients that this revelation will undoubtedly lead to. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/02/dental-floss-proof-works-guidelines-dropped
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