dental floss
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Background: It has been reported, since the time of this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus), that there is a type of bird that picks food out of the teeth of crocodiles, who are unable to properly acquire or use dental floss. Specifically, we have: Conclusion: birds are not reliable dentists… at least, not to crocodiles! Proposal: The fact…
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The issue: Dental floss has a serious problem with unnecessary waste: each length of dental floss has a “dead zone” at the ends that is used to wrap around fingers. This unused region is thrown away without ever having been actually used as dental floss (Figure 1). Proposal: Instead of wrapping the dental floss around…
