{"id":81,"date":"2011-12-11T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gcuomodds.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2011-12-11T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T14:16:39","slug":"use-of-a-water-flosser-for-interdental-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/use-of-a-water-flosser-for-interdental-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of a Water Flosser for Interdental Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>Interdental cleaning\u00a0is an important part of a patient&#8217;s personal oral care regimen.\u00a0 Water flossers, also known as oral irrigators (WaterPik), can play a vital, effective role in interdental hygiene. Evidence has shown a significant reduction in plaque biofilm from tooth surfaces and the reduction of subgingival pathogenic bacteria from pockets as deep as 6 millimeters with the use of water flossing.\u00a0 In addition, water flossers have shown to reduce gingivitis, bleeding, probing pocket depth, and tartar buildup\u00a0 related to\u00a0dental implants,\u00a0porcelain veneers, crowns,\u00a0orthodontics, as well as natural teeth.\u00a0 GC<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interdental cleaning\u00a0is an important part of a patient&#8217;s personal oral care regimen.\u00a0 Water flossers, also known as oral irrigators (WaterPik), can play a vital, effective role in interdental hygiene. Evidence has shown a significant reduction in plaque biofilm from tooth surfaces and the reduction of subgingival pathogenic bacteria from pockets as deep as 6 millimeters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,19,6,1],"tags":[2,13,14,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcuomodds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}