FLOSSING & YOUR HEART because It is bad to have food stuck between your teeth for long periods of time. This is Flossing food attracts germs, germs produce acid, and acid hurts your teeth and gums. flossing helps to remove the food that gets stuck between your teeth. This explains why good for helps to keep your mouth healthy, but some doctors say that flossing can be also your heart. It may seem e that something regardin heart. Doctors you do for your teeth can have any effect on your Qme have up with a few ideas about how flossing works keep your heart your blood idea is that the hurt your tceth can leave the mouth and rave these that Germs that get into the blood can then attack your heart. Another idea is based on germs when there are too many germs in your mouth, the body tries to fight against weakening For some reason, the way the body fights these mouth germs may end up the heart over time. ood Not every doctor agrees about these ideas. Some doctors think that the link between flossing habits and good heart health is only a coincidence A coincidence is the occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere e incidence of these events is completely random, as they do not admit of any reliable cause and effect relationship between them. For example, every time I wash my car, it rains. This does not mean that when l wash my car, I somehow change the weather. This is only a coincidence. Likewise, bome doctors think that people who have bad flossing habits just happen to also ave heart problems, and people who have good flossing habits just happen to have healthy t The theory that flossing your teeth helps to keep your heart healthy might not be true. every doctor agrees that flossing is a great way to keep your teeth healthy. So even if ssing does not help your heart, it is sure to help your teeth. This is enough ofa reason for ryone to floss their teeth every day.