> actual evidence that flossing is helpful seems pretty limited
If I don't floss my breath smells terrible because of bacteria and bacteria causes tooth decay. I'm pretty certain I'm not special.
If I don't floss my breath smells terrible because of bacteria and bacteria causes tooth decay. I'm pretty certain I'm not special.
Some people get lucky, and even with low brushing, won't get cavities.
I refuse to use antibiotic soaps either. I reserve the tools of sterility for the space in front of my laminar flow hood and the like when preparing live cultures for cheeses and brews. I lived where fluoridated water was a practice during my early years when my teeth had formed - as that's actually when the flouride has the most impact...once the teeth are built, there's little effect from consuming flouride on the enamel.
Later in late grade-school I lived in a place where fluoridated water had not happened, and so the school was doing a routine annual flouride mouth rinse-and-spit routine in the class. Was a 'conscientious objector' causing some chagrin for the teachers, they would pass out the little cup of chemical brew and start the timer, while i just stared at the paper cup and got threatened with having to write "I will ...." sentences as punishment. Even that didn't really have any impact on my actions. Adding another hashmark by my name on the blackboard as a tally of pages of meaningless repetitive sentences which I would never actually do or turn in. That had zero leverage against my test scores or passing any subject. So what if I couldn't go out to recess to sweat on a bare dirt playground with zero swings or other appeal. Fine by me.
But, by 3rd grade I already had my own two-stage steromicroscope and was acutely aware of the need for balanced microbiomes in all of life, learning about soil and aquatic microbiomes from my grandfather. So, very much not the normal kid.
All that aside, my gums could use more care, so I'm trying to be more diligent and brush daily with salt, baking soda and the tiniest bit of fennel and mint oil. Its showing some improvement.
Pretty much our overall health depends on various internal and external factors, that includes immunity and external environment, including food we are using, so you have to use your own brains and scientifical methods to figure out what works INDIVIDUALLY for you and “recommended treatment” at this point is nothing else than a belief in religion, because you actually do not understand what it is at this point, as you have not done your research.
>>>but science was invented
Please do not be this condescending "new age moron" teaching others what is science and making cringe to others like me, that hears it. It seems, that YC is plagued with this type of attitude, while actual science starts with curiosity and methods applied and not some belief in religion of Science. It also is a scourge of modern times, that so many professionals, that are doing science result in faking it with hopes of making it eventually, which itself is a complete failure of science as it is very simply a methodology - based on observations and collected knowledge and not a Bible of instructions, that give their holders religious title of Scientist.
If all recommended treatments have been tried with no success, the real solution will have to be something that is not recommended.
With all other things held constant, in such a case the non-recommended approach would have best been the first and only treatment deployed.
It's not the gums that are receding. It's the fucking bone on which the regenerative soft tissue grows on.