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Dental Floss has been found to
have been used in some form by early prehistoric humans because of grooves
found in their teeth.
The person who is credited for
inventing dental floss is Levi Spear Parmly, a dentist from New Orleans, Louisiana,
who recommended in 1815 that people use floss made of silk.
Dental floss wasn't available to
the average consumer until 1882 and Johnson and Johnson received the first
patent in 1898.
Dental floss didn't catch on
until World War II when floss was starting to be made of nylon because
abrasion resistance and elasticity. It is now made of Teflon expanded
polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE), ultra high molecular weight polyethylene
(UHMWPE) or nylon.
The ADA recommends a person
flosses at least once a day by wrapping the regular floss around the tooth and
wipe the tooth from under the gum line (gently) to
the tip two or three times, repeated on adjacent tooth and all other teeth
too.
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