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Start Caring About Your Oral Hygiene Again With A Waterpik
In parts of the country that follow CDC guidelines, you no longer have to wear a mask in your day-to-day life. In many ways this is a good thing: It allows people to resume many normal pre-pandemic activities, and it removes a threatening symbolic barrier between members of a community. On the other hand, now people can see the bottom of your face—in particular your mouth. This is especially bad if you took a year of limited to no social obligations to mean you did not have to keep up your strict oral hygiene routine.
Now is the time to go into overdrive to make up for lost time. No one blames you for letting flossing fall by the wayside as other health concerns became more pressing, but you have to pick it up again. If you haven’t already, schedule an appointment with your dentist ASAP.
You should also invest in yourself. You need a tool you can trust to rid your teeth of the plaque and tartar that has accumulated over the past year. A Waterpik is a great start, as it can really help clean out those gaps with more consistency than traditional floss.
For those who don’t know, Waterpik is a brand that makes “power dental flossers.” Instead of scrubbing out the space between your teeth with floss, potentially missing hard-to-reach areas or even causing damage if you have sensitive gums, a Waterpik sprays a stream of water wherever you point it. Waterpiks come with knobs you can turn to the desired pressure setting to clean out whatever you need to. This model, the #1 best seller on Amazon, has 100 settings ranging from 10 to 100 psi. Furthermore, the Waterpik Aquarius claims to be 50 percent more effective than floss for improving gum health. As a Waterpik user myself, I find this completely credible. Waterpiks are less painful than floss, and as a result you are much more likely to actually use one on a daily basis.
Even more so than before the pandemic, people will be paying special attention to your mouth. As you may have noticed, people now gaze almost involuntarily at lower half of your face to check out if you are still wearing a mask. You want your teeth to be clean and clear to give people the best possible impression of what they discover.
In an internet joke that dates back to the dawn of the COVID age, people have fretted of the possibility of finding someone attractive only to uncover a hidden hideousness under a face mask. You do not want that person to be you. Reward people’s faith in you by presenting the best possible version of yourself. A Waterpik can be part of the solution.