I recently changed dentist.  My old dentist was kind of like a way station of humanity that also happened to do teeth cleaning.  You walked in and there was this holding area where the waiting patients looked like they had other health issues completely unrelated to the oral hygiene.  I always kind of felt like they ran a free clinic in back to help boost revenue.

When I had my consult a few weeks ago, I was set at ease because my new dentist counts Nelly Furtado and Tyra Banks as clients.  The office was clean, so that helped, and it looked like it was all oral hygiene, all the time; no STD tests given in a back room.

Today, I went in for my cleaning and my inital impressions were all true.  The dentist said that while I do a bang up job brushing, I have to start flossing more regularly or I will continue to experience bone loss. 

Yeee!

What’s weird is that while my OCD manifests itself quite powerfully in the realm of oral hygiene, it only covers brushing.  Somehow, flossing continually escapes the purview of oral health in the obsessive part of my brain.

Anyway, she scared the hell of me.  I’m gonna start flossing like a motherfucker.

Last bit about oral hygiene: I learned a great trick from one of Mary Milan’s colleagues who has sparkly white teeth.  He uses Crest White Strips but only for the week after he gets his teeth cleaned.  The theory is that since your teeth are cleaned of all the gunk on top of them, they are more ready to drink in the whitening powers of the strips. 

I got my white strips from CVS, which is the bomb of all drug stores by the way, yesterday and I’m gonna start whitening tonight.

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