Britons floss with screwdrivers

[Ally]

More than 60 percent of Britons use items such as screwdrivers, scissors and earrings to remove food from between their teeth, according to a survey on Friday.

The National Dental Survey found that when it comes to oral hygiene, people use whatever is close to hand to pick their teeth.

More than 60 percent questioned by the Dental Health Foundation said they used makeshift items, which included knives, keys, needles and forks.

The survey also found that 23 percent of people choose to leave food stuck between their teeth, increasing the risk of gum disease and bad breath, the foundation, which promotes oral health, said in a statement.

[Skylace]

I am sure the same results would be here also.

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[eefanincan]

I'm all for flossing and good oral hygiene but, here's a couple of things I encountered that really turned me off:

One day I was teaching a class (adult education) and had put on a movie regarding some subject matter we were studying. I look to the back of the room and there's a girl sitting with her feet on the desk and a wad of dental floss in her hand, going to town on her teeth. She just couldn't understand why I asked her to do this on her break, in the washroom. "But I have to go to the dentist after class".

And there is this one nurse I work with, very "stuffy" and into everything healthy, very prim and proper. Well, every day after her meal, she pulls out her dental floss and starts flossing right at the kitchen table..... honest to goodness, I half expect a hygenist to come out of the woodwork for a polishing! I'm always so disgusted by it that I can't even bring myself around to asking her to do it somewhere else.

What I'd like to know is when it became acceptable to just do your dental hygiene in public????