This client is in her 95^th year and asked me to come to her home and clean her teeth.

Before we start she says to me I floss every day and have done for as long as I remember.  I even flossed before floss became available by using her mother’s sewing thread.  She said that mother would get angry with her saying that she was going to ruin her teeth.  Little did her mother know it was the best thing she could do for herself.  Now when I did an oral examination I found not only did she have all her own teeth but I could not find any periodontal disease [gum] either.  How is this not a great example of the importance and benefit of daily flossing? 

 Written by Angela Erhardt