Did you know that more than three million miles of dental floss is purchased in North America each year? That’s a lot of floss, especially since studies show that only 28% of people use it every day.
Have you ever wondered where floss came from? Well, in 1815, a dentist named Levi Spear Parmly advised his patients to use a thin silk thread to clean between their teeth. This is where the idea originally came from. The first time floss was commercially manufactured in 1882. This floss was unwaxed and marketed by Codman and Shurleft Co. Johnson & Johnson introduced their silk floss in 1896 and then patented dental floss in 1898.
source: infinitydentalweb by Julie
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