Despite what the United States says about oral health, Canadian dentists are encouraging people to not follow suit and continue to floss.

A recent report by the 2015 Dietary Guide For Americans stated that flossing teeth is no longer included in oral health and has caused some local dentists to scratch their heads.

The Canadian Dental Association still has both brushing and flossing your pearly whites as the two most important ways to care for your teeth.

Dr. Jennifer Ficzycz of Cottonwood Dental says flossing makes a huge difference in oral health.

"Just keeping a clean mouth, a clean oral environment and removing debris, flossing is going to do that," she says. "Just overall it makes a lot of sense just for keeping a clean mouth. You may not be removing all the bad bacteria that they're talking about, but you're going to be dislodging food and having a little less things for bacteria to basically live on."

Ficzycz says despite data showing that flossing doesn't completely remove bacteria from your mouth, flossing shouldn't be overlooked.

"Of course you're not removing it completely, but you're disturbing it and decreasing the load. I think that's the one thing that came out is just that the evidence that flossing doesn't remove bacteria, well brushing doesn't either but it just kind of helps to neutralize what's there and keeping more of a healthy mouth."

She says that flossing, like brushing your teeth, can improve your overall oral health and flossing does more than you think.

"Even if people have food trapped and they're not cleaning out the physical food that's in their mouth, you can cause bone loss and traumatized gum tissues and it just leads to other issues. If there's bacteria there they'll use it as a food source and you're going to have more acidity and going to have potentially more root decay."

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