Floss Floss Dance & Toss - The Video Game

In honor of the millionth run thru of this game (it's obviously "no flash in the pan"), here's a link to the flossing version of Dance Dance Revolution, Floss Floss Dance & Toss.

If you like online video games this might be fun for you.
The force behind getting this game going was a young dentist, Dr. Jamie Johnson, The Dental Diva, from Pueblo, CO.
It all started about 6 years ago when she got some video game designers to devise a Dance Dance Revolution type game with a wacky guy, Brad Swanson, dancing up a storm with floss in the background while you play.
If you aren't one to learn and play video games, you might enjoy just watching Brad goof off in this "outtake reel" from the making of the game.

Congratulations to Jamie, Brad and the production crew!  We at the National Flossing Council like all sorts of media that get people thinking and talking about floss and your game is certainly doing that!

Shelli and the Flossies Bergere Grand Prize!

Here's the Winner of the Flossies Bergere Video Contest, Shelli Saraga, with her Grand Prize - Flossing Barbie Atop the Eiffel Tower!
Congratulations Shelli!
In case you haven't seen her excellent video - check it out!

It's National Flossing Day!

You may have heard about National Flossing Day in the news. It's always the day after Thanksgiving here in the US.

Since Thanksgiving is a day of feasting, what better day to remember flossing than today?  Here's the 2011 Proclamation that talks about the sense behind our holiday.

Have you ever played the game called "Rumors?"  (Some people call it "Telephone.")  - One person writes down a sentence and whispers it to a friend, then that person whispers it to another, until everyone has heard it.  The last person writes down what they heard and that's compared with the original.  The changes and distortions can be hilarious.  If you read the White Paper that is part of this years National Flossing Day, you'll learn how even doctors and dentists sometimes accidentally play the same game.

The title of the White Paper is "Spinning Floss Facts Into Fictions".  It explains some flossing research that gave proof flossing reduced cavities, but it mostly explains how the flossing in that study that was done by moms with a little simple training has come to be commonly described in scientific articles as "professional" flossing.  Based on this "rumor",  journal articles for dentists are saying "only professional flossing has been shown to reduce cavities." The White Paper hopes to make it clear that flossing has been tested and shown to reduce cavities, but you don't have to wait for a "professional" to floss you.  Your own daily flossing will do just fine!

Happy Flossing Day!  Floss on!

Flossies Bergere Video Contest Winner Announced!

Here's the winning entry in the Flossies Bergere Video Contest!
Shelli Sargara, a student at the Univ. of Florida, scripted and edited this funny video.

She'll be receiving flosscards for her cast and the Grand Prize.
Great job, Shelli!  Thanks for showing how to Help Spread "Peace of Mouth!"

Hippos Understand Dental Health

Here's a scene from the excellent BBC series, Life, broadcast in 2009.
In the 4th episode, "Fish," David Attenborough explains how hippos submerge themselves and open their mouths so fish can clean their teeth.

If only fish could floss!

Flossies Bergere Video Challenge - one more entry!

Here's the complete list - The last entry by Jori arrived on Nov. 1, the official deadline.

"Feats of Flossing" by Libby & Scott & Cross Fit Davis
Flossies Bergere! Celebrate NationalFlossing Day! by Shelli

"Flossing This Way" by Pretty Eyes Moo

 Celebrate National Flossing Day! 2011 "Flossies Bergere"
 by Jori

The Grand Prize winner will be announced Nov. 14.

Saudi Airlines is Floss Friendly!

A tip of the NFC hat to Saudi Airlines!

Our Mideast floss correspondent, Rochelle D of Washington, DC (who last spotted a tube of "Crust Toothpaste."(see older blog entry) when she was in Jordan), has brought back an individual floss packet, which she reports is included with each meal on Saudi Airlines.

 and here's how you can write "dental floss" in arabic.