What about water-pik? Do they do the job?
Question:
I brush and floss regularly but wondering if this is good supplementation or would it just be a waste of money?
Answers:
Hey BigRob,
WaterPiks are good tools for people who get alot of food stuck in their teeth. Examples would be people with moderate to advanced gum disease where they have alot of spaces and pockets for food to hide, also, people with braces use them to clean food from around the brackets. They DO NOT replace flossing because they will not remove plaque from between the teeth. Hope this helps.
Dr. R.
Other Answers:
my dentist suggested a water pik; she said they are as good as flossing
i like it.
I have a water pik but I have implants and it really helps to get the food out that gets lodged under my teeth. I would be lost without it.
Water Piks are good but if you really want to do more than just floss with water you should try the Patented OxyCare™ 3000 Hydromagnetic Oral Irrigator. It looks like a Water Pik but that is where the similarities end.
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Source(s):
http://www.oxyfreshww.com/OxyMike
To those who could not stomach thier own barbarity:
The Book of Joshua, so often invoked today by the army rabbinate in Israel in order to preach holy war, and also made much of in school-teaching, dwells upon the sanctified extermination of conquered populations, putting everyone to "the edge of the sword" _ "both man and woman, yound and old" (Joshua, vi, 21) _ as we read in the story of Jericho and of so many other cities.
The behavior exhibited by Israeli soldiers raised with such ideas is consistent with this attitude. Today in occupied Palestine, some dreadful scenes have become part of everyday life: 18-month-old babies dying in their beds when their houses are attacked by Israeli helicopter gunships, young girls working in the olive groves being shot and killed for no reason, and children returning home from school being wounded and permanently disabled.
The behavior exhibited by Israeli soldiers raised with such ideas is consistent with this attitude. Today in occupied Palestine, some dreadful scenes have become part of everyday life: 18-month-old babies dying in their beds when their houses are attacked by Israeli helicopter gunships, young girls working in the olive groves being shot and killed for no reason, and children returning home from school being wounded and permanently disabled. The Zionist education system is at the root of these inhuman, and all-too-common, episodes. Research shows that this education and brainwashing has been extremely effective. In a test conducted by Tel Aviv University psychologist G. Tamarin, a statement describing the Jericho massacre from the Old Testament's Book of Joshua was distributed to fourth- and eighth-grade students. They were asked:
: "Suppose the Israeli Army occupies an Arab village in a battle. Do you think it would be proper, or not, to act against the inhabitants as did Joshua with the people of Jericho?" The number who answered "Yes" varied between 66% and 95%, according to the school attended or the kibbutz or town where the children lived. Garaudy emphasizes that the Book of Joshua and the Old Testament in general are the source of Zionist terror:
This conception of the "promise", together with the means for its realisation (as the leaders of political Zionism derive these from the Book wherein Joshua recounts his feats of extermination of the previous inhabitants, which he carried out at God's command and with his support), plus the themes of "the chosen people" and of "Greater Israel", from the Nile to the Euphrates, constitute the ideological foundation of political Zionism.
The memoirs of an Israeli soldier published in the Israeli newspaper Davar are an important example of this. The soldier in question participated in an operation to seize the Palestinian village of Ed-Dawayma in 1948, and described the scenes of brutality he witnessed:
They killed between eighty to one hundred Arab men, women, and children. To kill the children, they (soldiers) fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one home without corpses. The men and women of the village were pushed into houses without food or water. Then the saboteurs came to dynamite them.
One commander ordered a soldier to bring two women into a building he was about to blow up. Another soldier prided himself upon having raped an Arab woman before shooting her to death. Another Arab woman and her baby were made to clean up the place for a couple of days, then they shot her and the baby.
Educated and well-mannered commanders who were considered "good guys" . became base murderers, and this is not in the storm of battle, but as a method of expulsion and extermination. The fewer the Arabs who remain, the better.
This is just one of the many brutal episodes that have occurred over the last 50 years.
Before the Israeli government was invented by the british, the Haganah, Irgun, and Stern gangs were responsible for removing Palestinians from their lands. These terrorist organizations prior to 1948, and the Israeli army after 1948, conducted a terrorist campaign on Arab civilians. Menachem Begin, the Irgun's leader and a future prime minister, explained their strategy: "The Arabs fought tenaciously in defense of their homes, their women and their children." In other words, the Zionists' war would be waged against innocent people.
The truth is that since that date, the Palestinians have struggled to protect their homes, women, and children from Israel's official policy of terrorizing the entire Palestinian people. Newspaper reporter and Middle East expert Flora Lewis explains Israeli-style brutality in this article in the International Herald Tribune:
Israeli officials have now publicly acknowledged a policy of "targeted attacks" on Palestinians believed to be involved in terrorism. These are planned assassinations, quite rightly called "criminal acts. murder" by Moshe Neghi, a respected Israeli journalist. Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said on the radio that the policy was unequivocal. "If anyone has committed or is planning to resist, he has to be hit. It is effective, precise and just."
Source(s):
http://www.halturnershow.com/israeliatro.
http://www.palestiniantragedy.com
http://www.thewallofhate.org/
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