I'm saying people should be aware there isn't evidence that flossing is all that beneficial for cavity protection. Therefore recommendations to do it are speculative and anectodotal. A lot of people assume it's a scientific fact like recommending people stop smoking or losing weight, but it's not even close to those.
Oh man. Here we go. Reddit has a huge pro-flossing bias and it's leaking over with all the refuges apparently.
This gets me downvoted to absolute oblivion on reddit and likely will here as well, but I just want to remind everyone this is all anectodotal information. There's not strong evidence that you really need to floss, so don't let these flossers guilt you if it's not your thing. I'm maybe a bit of an anti-dentite I guess, but buzz feed did a nice article on this and many sources also picked up the ap newsfeed on the lack of scientific data for this commonly pushed practice :
Little bit on struggle bus. Looks like work blocks the instance I registered on so tried lemmy.world, but I guess I need a totally separate account to login to that? Seems a little fussy
I'm downvoting you. You point out a good example of why it really is that bad and then go on to say it's not that bad. I disagree and think it's pretty bad.
I'm saying people should be aware there isn't evidence that flossing is all that beneficial for cavity protection. Therefore recommendations to do it are speculative and anectodotal. A lot of people assume it's a scientific fact like recommending people stop smoking or losing weight, but it's not even close to those.