Marketing Dental Floss Flossing: A new secret to good health? Introduction: Dental floss is one of those products we never notice on the shelves in the stores and never pay too much attention to in our bathroom. At the same time for many people it is a part of the “before going to bed” ritual along with brushing teeth, taking shower, etc. and etc. Those who don’t use it on regular basis still have it in their bathrooms, because: 1. A mouth hygiene care item in regards to which everybody wants
same as healthy mouth. Since we are child, parents have told us about the importance of brushing our teeth after every meal, but do they name the importance of the daily floss with that frequency? As water and food are essential for our survival, Flossing is tremendously important for our health. Avoiding the use of dental floss during the childhood can bring some implications in the health after people reaches adulthood. Have you ever ask why people have more diseases after the 30s or 40s? In some
survey conducted by the Dentists’ Association (2008), found that 51% of americans do not floss their teeth once a day and 10% of Americans never floss (Millar 1). Flossing can prevent tooth decay, gum disease, and also save you some money in the long run. If you haven’t introduced flossing into a daily habit yet. Individuals may want to reconsider the importances of flossing. I have conducted an experiment to floss more often by examining cues, setting routines, and finding a way to reward myself. Hopefully
Bad Breath Don’t you just hate it when you’re talking to someone with bad breath but you feel too awkward to say that their breath stinks? Although dental hygiene is important, there are other reasons why you might have bad breath, in medical terms called halitosis. Sometimes you might not even notice that your breath reeks but there are easy ways to test and cure bad breath. Ways to Test for Bad Breath Testing for bad breath is a simple thing to do that takes a small amount of time with little
cleaning, chances are you have had conversations with your dentist about flossing. An integral part of proper dental hygiene, flossing helps strengthen teeth and gums while maintaining your overall oral health. Flossing with regular dental floss, however, can irritate your gums and have limited effectiveness. Food debris, plaque, and tartar can all be left behind by traditional nylon dental floss, causing irritation of the gums, plaque deposits, and tooth decay. Improper or irregular flossing is also
down into sugars, and they eat it and produce waste that sits inside the plaque. Eww, right? But its easy to clean the plaque off if you brush and floss properly! But if you don’t it will harden, and become Calculus also called tartar, and that stuff is yellow, sometimes brown or black. It looks really gross. So make sure to brush your teeth and floss so it won’t get hard and nasty. Plaque’s Role in Decay When you eat, plaque forms as the bacteria, saliva and food debris all mix together stick to
quickly got ready for her dental appointment at Restorative Dentistry, briefly brushing over her teeth and flossing, mostly jamming the floss into her gums, barely removing anything wedged between her teeth. Amber made her way into the waiting room and was greeted by two women receptionist. She sat down and was called by a dental assistant to follow her into the room to get started on her scheduled cleaning. The dental assistant took seven x-rays of Amber 's teeth and a dental hygienist came in, and
are multi-useful. First Aid Supplies This is an important essential to bring with you on your hike. In your first aid kit you should have your medication, a few band aids, some gauze pads, alcohol wipes, Neosporin, mosquito repellant, a needle, dental floss, and hand sanitizer. Prepackaged first aid kits are available at most retail stores like Walmart or Target. Double your effectiveness with knowledge: Take a basic first aid class with the American Red Cross or a Wilderness... ... middle of paper
being to shed light on the issue between upper and lower class society in a particularly concrete way. Teeth and dental health are an easy thing for people to imagine in their head because everyone has a set whether they’re white and shiny or black and rotted. This makes it easy to draw a comparison between people that care for their teeth and those who don’t. However, access to dental knowledge and services which the lower class often times doesn’t have is very different between the poor and the
the brushing habits of millions and turned the lowly toothbrush into a trendy lifestyle accessory. As the consumers are becoming more concerned about the health of their teeth, the toothbrush companies are focusing on helping them have an optimal dental health, and offering various types of toothbrush; to do this they must be all the time focused on what the customer's needs are. And for this reason, the toothbrush companies have made numerous functional and aesthetic changes to the heads and bodies
apart at the handle to provide consumers with dental floss and toothpaste. The rear part of the handle contains a button that when pushed down also allows forward movement; this action squeezes the toothpaste cartridge. When the button is pressed a hole at the end of the handle opens up allowing the toothpaste to exist, when the button is released the hole closes and seals off the toothpaste. The end with the brush contains a cartridge full of dental floss. The use of cartridges is important because
they target everyone who has teeth. Through the use of advertisements, Colgate has convinced the world that they have the best toothbrushes, they’re even recommended by dentists. Colgate as a company strives to be the best company to have the best dental products.
Many people are practicing the habit of flossing because they are ordered by their dentist to do so. But are they doing the right technique? Whether you are new or old to the flossing practice, you should know how to floss your teeth correctly because it will determine whether you will achieve or maintain a healthy set of pearly whites or not. The frequency of flossing should also be considered so that you can ensure that you clean your teeth the best way you can during the right timings. What is
My family has a history of bad teeth with weak enamel. We could brush, floss, and use mouthwash five times a day and still get cavities. When my son's teeth came in, they had very weak enamel, and he had to have a lot of dental repair done when he was only two. This was when I started searching the internet for something that could help his teeth; and I discovered Xylitol. Xylitol is a white substance that tastes like sugar. It is found in various items in nature including hardwood, raspberries
Today, there are a variety of dental floss types available on the market. From having individual floss to a whole container, chances are you'll be able to find the perfect type to carry around in your bag or pocket for whenever you need it. Even having a floss that is mint-flavored can be handy for those times when you are unable to utilize mouthwash. If you are unsure of how to choose the best floss for your teeth, your dental professional will be able to point you to all of the available options
Is flossing good for your dental health? Often we tend to ignore our dental health inspite of repeated reminder by our medical experts. Generally we are advised by our dentist to regularly brush and floss our teeth in order to make sure that no food particle remains stuck between the teeth. But is flossing really beneficial for our dental health? Or is it just a fashion to do it? Let us see the pros and cons of flossing before we reach any conclusion on this matter. Flossing: the pros and cons of
Pillars of Salt, A Woman of Five Seasons and A Balcony Over the Fakihani missing works cited “Maha, sister, my life is like candy-floss; fluffy and full from the outside, empty like this damned hospital room from the inside. And they called the candy-floss ‘girls-curls.’ It was like my life. A girl’s life. A fluffy lie for half a piaster. Ya-la-la.” (Faqir, 19) To many eyes, the women’s liberation movement in the Middle East is nothing more than a mere façade. The solidification of women’s
Identity of Women in Shelley's Frankenstein, Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss George Eliot is quoted as stating: "A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them" (Miner 473). To extend this notion, Jean Giraudoux in Tiger at the Gates, states "I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never been able to discover precisely what it is I am" (474). These two statements are related to each other because they express, in large part, the dilemma facing Mary
narrative tones Stowe strikes in the novel and are the feelings she wishes to awaken in her readers. Sympathy is likewise what Eliot wishes to stir in her readers in relating Maggie Tulliver's tragic life. Both Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Mill on the Floss utilize religious themes to accomplish these aims. Each points out the hypocrisy of conventional religious sentiments, highlights sincere religious sentiments within a few select individuals, and compares its suffering hero/heroine to Christ the
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot It is said that George Eliot’s style of writing deals with much realism. Eliot, herself meant by a “realist” to be “an artist who values the truth of observation above the imaginative fancies of writers of “romance” or fashionable melodramatic fiction.” (Ashton 19) This technique is artfully utilized in her writings in a way which human character and relationships are dissected and analyzed. In the novel The Mill on the Floss, Eliot uses the relationships