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Saturday 14 July 2012

Only 12 Percent Of Americans Floss Regularly

Only 12 Percent Of Americans Floss Regularly - Early versions: A dentist from a southern US city first told his patients to use this material in 1815, and a famous corporation got the first dental floss patent in 1898. Levi Spear Parmly, Dr. Charles C. Bass, flossing and heart disease, 
Modern-day version: A researcher known as the “Father of Preventive Dentistry” developed nylon floss in the 1940s. It’s sold in several different apparatuses but few Americans are regular flossers. Only 12 percent of Americans floss regularly,