Flossers, non flossers and plain liars

Let me start with a confession

I don’t floss as much as I should. Every time I go to my Hygienist she would ask if I was following my floss routine as required. At this point I will obviously lie – or try to mumble a mantra in the line off “I do what I can” or “When I get to it”. “Okay, set down. Let’s see if you bleed this time.

And then I bleed. Do it again, exactly the same way 6 month later.

Who are you flossers?

Good news everybody, the math here is pretty pretty sweet. Out of 608 people who replied our little survey, about a ? floss daily, another ? regularly but not daily. And the last ?, well, they just don’t floss at all.

It come with age. And then it goes.

Some of you might be shocked to discover but, apparently flossing grows with age. For example, a 20 yrs old is about 2X more likely to be a complete non-flosser (35%) compared to a 50 yrs old (18.5%). That happens for a very good reason. You see, at some point in life you start realising that teeth maintenance is a terrific time investment. After all, it is the last set of teeth you are ever going to have right?

Wrong.

Because then you reach your 60’s and get a new set. Congratulations, you can stop flossing now. As 35% of your group age already had. It is just as if you were in your 20’s again!

The flosser of two evils.

Let’s see if you can guess which gender has disgusting hygienic habits, and which is simply a bunch of big fat online survey liars. I will leave it up to you to decide.

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