it sits on your tooth bt your teeth and gums and can make your teeth super sensitive or make you bleed when you brush. It inflames the gums bc it’s a foreign substance. It’s not supposed to be there!
This is usually when you get your teeth cleaned.
If getting your teeth cleaned hurts so much you need a shot, it is because you have so much inflammation and tartar that it’s reaching the roots of your teeth. Ouch!
Once your teeth are cleaned, it’s important that you floss because the floss will hook onto the annoying tartar b/t your teeth and yank it out before it has a chance to weasel b/t your teeth and gums and harden and get all pointy and hurt a lot.
You can either floss or use the floss brush thing, either way, something needs to venture in between your teeth and get that tartar out!
Jesus Christ why isn’t brushing enough??
brushing only gets the sides and top of your teeth!
even if it gets a little bit in between, it won’t go all the way through to the other side
if it doesn’t go through all the way, tartar will stick into the little spaces where a brush won’t reach!
you need to floss, brush, and gargle to get the full effect of a fulfilled dental routine :)
Goddammit i have to use mouthwash too?? i thought it was optional!!
swishing and gargling is what gets the little bits that weren’t spit out after flossing and brushing!
you could rinse w water if you wanted to but a mouthwash is a better decision because of the added benefits each mouthwash brings
read the labels for whatever mouthwash you think will benefit your unique situation the most
i s2g if there is anything else
REGULAR DENTAL CHECKUPS!
this is way too fuckin much
welcome to basic dental hygiene friend
I hope this was very informative and i hope you floss regularly! :)
Two Palestinian men from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah testified Wednesday that they saw a police officer shoot a sponge-tipped bullet at a young boy on Saturday.
Malek Issa, 9, was shot in the face during clashes between residents and security forces. After three days in intensive care, he was moved Tuesday to a pediatric ward. He was scheduled for surgery Wednesday afternoon during which doctors expected to remove one of his eyes.
The first witness, Musa Mustafa, is a bus driver who appears in surveillance camera footage from the time of the shooting. The actual shooting and Issa being hit are not seen in the footage, but the behavior of people on the scene shows that there was a shooting nearby. Seconds later the boy is seen being carried, motionless, into a car. Mustafa said policemen were standing 50 meters away from Issa, who had just emerged from a grocery store and was running home.
“The policemen were standing there, no one was talking to them. I saw the policeman take aim and shoot. After he fired, I opened the bus door and got out. I yelled at him that he’d taken the boy’s eye out, and he told me to move on. Other policemen wanted to beat me up, but I told them there were little kids still in the bus.”
The second witness was Omar Dari, a friend of the bus driver, who was standing nearby. “The boy got off the school bus and went into the grocery. As soon as he came out and crossed the road the policeman shot him. The boy fell to the ground. There was nothing – no one was throwing stones. I don’t know why he fired.”
Mustafa and Dari gave statements Wednesday at the Justice Ministry’s unit for investigating police officers. On Tuesday, investigators from the unit went to the scene of the shooting after talking to the boy’s parents in the hospital. The ministry is considering these actions as part of a probing into the incident rather than an official investigation.
The policeman has not yet been summoned to give his own version of the events. He admitted having firing his gun, but said he fired only a single sponge-tipped bullet, aiming at a wall in order to calibrate the sights in case he needed to use his gun later. He said he saw the bullet hit the wall, not the child, and said he believed the boy was hit by a stone or by a car.
Police regulations prohibit firing sponge-tipped rounds at children, and if fired at a human, cannot be aimed anywhere but the lower body. The regulations note that hitting the upper body from a range of 50 meters “can cause moderate to serious injuries, depending on the part of the body that was hit.” Police regulations do state that a trial shot should be fired first, but there are no details as to how this should be accomplished.
Inspectors found the debris in 35 out of about 50 jets that were inspected. They are among 400 built in the past year that Boeing hasn’t been able to deliver to airline customers.
Boeing temporarily halted production last month because the planes were grounded after crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people.
Although debris hasn’t been linked to those crashes, metal shavings, tools and other objects left in planes during assembly can raise the risk of electrical short-circuiting and fires. On Tuesday the company had said debris was found in “several” planes but it did not give a precise number.
The debris was discovered during maintenance on parked planes, and Boeing said it immediately made corrections in its production system to prevent a recurrence. Those steps include more inspections before fuel tanks are sealed.
“This is unacceptable and won’t be tolerated on any Boeing aircraft when it’s delivered to the customer,” the company said in a statement Saturday.
Boeing previously said the issue does not change the company’s belief that the Federal Aviation Administration will certify the plane to fly again this summer.
A Boeing spokesman cautioned against applying the 70% to all 400 jets, saying there’s no way to know how many have the same problem until they’re all inspected.
An FAA spokesman said the agency knows that Boeing is inspecting undelivered Max planes and said the agency has increased surveillance.
The number of planes with debris was reported Friday night by The Wall Street Journal.
Max jets were grounded around the world last March. Boeing is testing updated flight control software that will replace a system that has been implicated as a cause of thecrashes. The system activated before the crashes based on faulty signals from sensors outside the planes. It pushed the noses of the aircraft down, triggering spirals that pilots were unable to stop.
While investigators examining the Max accidents have not pointed to production problems at the assembly plant near Seattle, Boeing has faced concerns about debris left in other finished planes including the 787 Dreamliner, which is built in South Carolina.
President Donald Trump on Thursday quietly issued a memo granting Defense Secretary Mark Esper the power to abolish collective bargaining rights for the Defense Department’s 750,000 civilian workers, a move unions decried as part of the administration’s far-reaching assault on organized labor.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) condemned the memo, which was published in the Federal Register (pdf) Thursday, as “a travesty and a disgrace.”
The memo argues that a unionized Defense Department workforce could pose a threat to “national security” and that, if necessary, collective bargaining rights at the department should be scrapped in the interest of “protecting the American people.”
“When new missions emerge or existing ones evolve, the Department of Defense requires maximum flexibility to respond to threats,” the memo states. “This flexibility requires that military and civilian leadership manage their organizations to cultivate a lethal, agile force adaptive to new technologies and posture changes.”
“Where collective bargaining is incompatible with these organizations’ missions,” the memo continues, “the Department of Defense should not be forced to sacrifice its national security mission and, instead, seek relief through third parties and administrative fora.”
It is unclear whether or how Esper intends to act on his legal authority.
Larry Mishel, distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, called the White House’s justification for ending collective bargaining rights at the Defense Department “atrocious.”
The existence of the memo, which Trump signed on Jan. 29, was first reported by Government Executive earlier this month.
The outlet noted that “the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 includes a provision allowing the president to issue an order excluding agencies and agency subcomponents from collective bargaining rules if the rules ‘cannot be applied to that agency or subdivision in a manner consistent with national security requirements.’”
Everett Kelley, AFGE’s national secretary-treasurer, said in a statement that denying Defense Department employees “the collective bargaining rights guaranteed to them by law since 1962 would be a travesty—and doing it under the guise of ‘national security’ would be a disgrace to the sacred oath and obligation that all federal workers make to their country.”
The unnamed “natural gas compression” plant was first targeted with a spear-phishing email, allowing the attacker to access its IT and then pivot to its OT network, according to the technical alert from the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
The ransomware used was not named, but described as a “commodity” type designed to infect Windows systems, rather than the new strain spotted recently that had ICS-specific functions.
As such, it didn’t manage to impact any of the programmable logic controllers (PLCs) responsible for directly reading and manipulating physical processes. Still, the ransomware was able to compromise human machine interfaces (HMIs), data historians and polling servers on the OT network.
The victim organization was ill-prepared for such an attack: a worrying sign that some critical infrastructure providers still haven’t evolved their threat modelling to take account of modern black hat techniques.
Specifically, the organization failed to implement robust segmentation between IT and OT networks, allowing the attacker to infect both. It also did not build cyber-risk into its emergency response plan, focusing solely on threats to physical safety.
“Consequently, emergency response exercises also failed to provide employees with decision-making experience in dealing with cyber-attacks,” the CISA alert noted.
“The victim cited gaps in cybersecurity knowledge and the wide range of possible scenarios as reasons for failing to adequately incorporate cybersecurity into emergency response planning.”
CISA urged critical infrastructure organizations to: add cyber-risk planning to their incident response strategies, practice failover to alternate control systems, use tabletop exercises to train employees, identify technical and human points of failure for operational visibility and recognize the safety implications of cyber-attacks, among other steps.
Among the physical security controls it recommended were network segmentation, multi-factor authentication, regular data backups, least privilege access policies, anti-phishing filters, AV, whitelisting, traffic filtering and regular patching.
