{"id":3692,"date":"2016-08-02T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:59:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:59:45","slug":"medical-benefits-of-dental-floss-unproven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/medical-benefits-of-dental-floss-unproven\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical benefits of dental floss unproven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/f7e66079d9ba4b4985d7af350619a9e3\/medical-benefits-dental-floss-unproven\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/460x.jpg?resize=605%2C408&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Well, this is interesting. -egg]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Associated Press:\u00a0It&#8217;s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.Except there&#8217;s little proof that flossing works.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the federal government, dental organizations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades. Dentists provide samples to their patients; the American Dental Association insists on its website that, &#8220;Flossing is an essential part of taking care of your teeth and gums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"dynamiccontent\"><\/div>\n<p>The federal government has recommended flossing since 1979, first in a surgeon general&#8217;s report and later in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans issued every five years. The guidelines must be based on scientific evidence, under the law.<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboola-mid-article-native\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year, the Associated Press asked the departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture for their evidence, and followed up with written requests under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>When the federal government issued its latest dietary guidelines this year, the flossing recommendation had been removed, without notice. In a letter to the AP, the government acknowledged the effectiveness of flossing had never been researched, as required.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/f7e66079d9ba4b4985d7af350619a9e3\/medical-benefits-dental-floss-unproven\">Medical benefits of dental floss unproven<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Well, this is interesting. -egg] Associated Press:\u00a0It&#8217;s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.Except there&#8217;s little proof that flossing works. Still, the federal government, dental organizations and manufacturers of floss have pushed the practice for decades. Dentists provide samples to their patients; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Xy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}