are there any differences between dental tape and dental floss?

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Permalink Reply by Steve on May 1, 2011 at 2:13pm

I'd advise against using floss as thread altogether, it disintegrates over time from moisture and breaks easily. Never heard of "dental tape"

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Permalink Reply by Efff on May 1, 2011 at 2:17pm

yeah but this is the cheap dental floss that you could probably kill someone with and it is for a top that iwont be wearing all to often and hand washing. =) and it is better than the cheap thread here as i would have to seriously double up on the thread and im not to bothered with it breaking after wear and tear as i will prolly take it appart before it dies anyway but ta. i didn't know it disintegrates tah for that. =D yeah i think the stuff is the same it is just got a diffrent name and a different color boxy thingy.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on May 1, 2011 at 3:39pm

In that case, go for it. "Dental Tape," is that the brand name or somthin? Sounds like tape used to keep your teeth in

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Permalink Reply by Efff on May 1, 2011 at 5:43pm

nah it is just like tescos brand dental tape instead of tescos brand dental floss. it looks the same. haha well my teeth arent falling out. and i hope they dont anytime soon as i HATE dentists.

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Permalink Reply by CorpseQueen on May 3, 2011 at 1:50am

Coming from someone who has to floss after I eat anything, cheap floss is awful! It breaks easy. Goodluck with what your doing though!

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Permalink Reply by Drunken Punk on May 7, 2011 at 6:07am

dental floss is defo the way forwards i use it on all my stuff and i machine wash em never had a single problem so i dono what u were using m8

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Permalink Reply by dick on May 1, 2011 at 3:42pm

i use string to sew, just double up the thread and its amazingly strong, it rips through my jeans before the string itself will break

 

 

and theres lots of cool colors:)

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Permalink Reply by Efff on May 1, 2011 at 5:45pm

yeah but it is expensive for me to just double up on thread works out cheaper and stronger if i just use floss, =) two 50m rolls of floss is like 80cent here and one spool of 100m thread that i will need to double up on is like 1euro30. so it works out cheaper and as it is cheapy floss it can garrote an ox.

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Permalink Reply by Chasity'sCunt on May 3, 2011 at 1:13am

I just have one really big spool of black thread and one really big spool of white thread... Found them in the trash so they were free.

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Permalink Reply by Efff on May 3, 2011 at 1:33pm

niceee. yeah i think i might get embriodery thread at the second hand stores.

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Permalink Reply by Phado on May 7, 2011 at 11:12am

maybe it's just a name thing, like supper vs. dinner (which one could argue is different, but I am from Canada, so I do not protest)

Maybe it's like arguing over the pronunciation of worcestershire sauce

or maybe... check wikipedia?

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