🧵 Never use water flossers
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:38:07 UTC No. 16585479
Waterpiks have permanent bacterial colonisation despite thorough cleaning.
>Neither using the device exclusively with a mouth-rinse nor any cleaning procedures prevented bacterial colonisation within the device and failed to disinfect the device — especially regarding S. mutans. Further, exchanging the used nozzle to a brand-new one did not prevent the risk of cross-contamination, i.e. bacteria from the device were also transmitted via the water-jet of a brand-new nozzle.
https://link.springer.com/article/1
to this day, mechanical flossing using the c-method is still superior
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:51:27 UTC No. 16585489
>>16585479
okay i won't
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:04:40 UTC No. 16585492
i just used it lol get fucked
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:07:40 UTC No. 16585495
>>16585479
>nor any cleaning procedures
Obviously skill issues with picrel, but it cleans teeth way better than water anyway.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:15:49 UTC No. 16585500
>>16585492
enjoy your spore-induced mild poisoning
>>16585495
how do i acquire this item
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:04:50 UTC No. 16585518
>>16585479
After reading up on s. mutans, I'm not at all concerned about their presence on the waterpik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strep
I don't currently use one but when I did, I added a cap full of mouth wash into the reservoir. Don't know if this sanitized the unit, but it did make my breath fresh without overwhelming the bacteria (many good) in my mouth that comes from gargling an mouthful of it.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:18:09 UTC No. 16585524
>>16585500
>how do i acquire this item
the precursors are in every grocery store/pharmacy, but it's too unstable to store.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:21:50 UTC No. 16585550
>>16585518
s. mutans is the primary precusrsor to caries, caries is directly linked to cardiovascular diseases.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scien
a 'clean' mouth radically reduces the risk of CVD.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:33:58 UTC No. 16585557
>>16585495
You shill this shit for hair regrowth all over 4chan and now dental hygiene, how much is Big Oxygen paying you?
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:57:31 UTC No. 16585687
>>16585479
>Waterpiks have permanent bacterial colonisation
Mouths have permanent bacterial colonisation. I you alone use your own waterpick, you risk transmitting your own bacterial strain too yourself (ie. nothing)
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:22:32 UTC No. 16585699
>>16585479
I am not surprised, and thank you for the info.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:30:18 UTC No. 16585705
>>16585479
Pik is Dutch for penis.
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:10:07 UTC No. 16585763
>>16585550
My oral health has greatly improved over the past few years of water flossing, and I haven't developed any cavities either. I think that I'd rather water floss and spit out some s. mutans water than have rotting food between my teeth (imagine that bacteria). In any case, tradition floss has its own shortcomings: unable to remove smaller particles, often has a toxic coating (https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/dent
Anonymous at Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:19:30 UTC No. 16585856
>>16585550
>Sucrose is the only sugar that bacteria can use to form this sticky polysaccharide.
I'm not a candy obsessed Amerifat so this has no relevance for me.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:23:02 UTC No. 16587630
>>16585687
you're also just reinfecting yourself over and over with the bacteria you tried to get rid of by buying a waterpik .
>>16585763
most flossing studies are done on people who dont even know how to floss, ie people afraid to get under the gumlien
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:25:10 UTC No. 16587635
>>16587630
gumline*
ignore my once in a blue moon dyslexia
>>16585699
You're welcome
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:31:24 UTC No. 16588468
>>16587630
I'm not trying to get rid of the bacteria, that is futile. I'm trying to get rid of the food for the bacteria
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:00:39 UTC No. 16588539
>>16588468
>I'm not trying to get rid of the bacteria, that is futile.
skill issue, see >>16585495.
>>16585557
not enough, big oxygen really needs to get on this shit, it does so much more than bleach or peroxide alone.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:32:38 UTC No. 16588562
>>16588559
Human bites are unironically worse than dog bites in first world medical triage kek, our mouths are cesspools
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:04:53 UTC No. 16588623
>check watch
>15 years since last filling
>11 years since last tooth brushing
trident and floss anons
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:42:19 UTC No. 16588677
>>16588468
the bacteria will feed with or without (traces of food or saliva) , the point is that you started your waterpik regimen trying to stave off caries, but the first times youve used the device, youve transferred the caries-inducing bacteria onto your waterpik, now everytime you use it, no matter how much food you blast off, you're reinfecting yourself over and over with caries from your pre-waterpik days. the amount never of s. mutans (and/or other cavity-causing bacteria) changes in your mouth temporarily after cleansing , but the supply within your waterpik will only grow and cause you prolonged harm after each use.
It's like developing a dependence, putting a bandaid solution using the very tool that gave you the problem in the first place. reinfection over and over.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:07:18 UTC No. 16588807
>>16588677
The physical act of blasting off food is the POINT of flossing, water with bacteria will happen if you brush or reuse any plastic cup. Unless you're suggesting to drink straight from the tap and disinfect our brush in an autoclave overnight, water picks have more of a calcification problem than a bacteria problem.
no credit to water picks tho, I doubt they can perform half as effectively on your back teeth.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:08:19 UTC No. 16588808
>>16588807
>our brush
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:29:34 UTC No. 16588826
>>16588807
actually for brush bacteria i recommend switching brushes every week
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:33:32 UTC No. 16589915
>>16585479
who paid for that research to be done?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:38:31 UTC No. 16589918
>>16585479
s. mutans is already found in the mouth though.
if anything this study just changes the order of mouthwash, saving it for last to reduce bacteria.