Never because flossing and brushing my teeth were actually part of the abuse I went through. It sounds crazy and hard to believe but let me explain. My abuser was extremely obsessed with perfectly white teeth and forced me to brush my teeth for four minutes and I had to use a battery powered toothbrush and she’d listen to the sound of it running. I dreaded when the batteries were dying because it would become quiet and she’d get mad and yell at me that I had better be brushing my teeth. Well if my teeth weren’t “clean” enough, she’d hit me for not brushing properly and made me do it again for four more minutes. There were times where I was wasting twenty minutes trying to get my teeth to be clean enough and avoid getting hit and my toothbrush head always looked like it was being used for months when it was only a week since I had replaced it. Sometimes I was spitting out a tiny bit of blood. Flossing was even worse as I was forced to use those floss picks and they are actually breakable as I kept popping the floss out of the end and had to use so manny of them. I was being forced to dig so hard in between my teeth that the floss would come out bloody and I kept spitting out blood because if I left anything in between my teeth, my abuser would hit me. She used brushing and flossing my teeth as a form of punishment that I can’t do it anymore without getting flashbacks of being hit because my teeth weren’t “clean” enough. There were even times where I was being forced to brush so long my hand began to hurt and grow numb from holding the toothbrush for so long. People don’t understand how truly awful it was to go through all of that for years. Spitting out blood every time you floss when you don’t even have a gum disease is a horrible thing to go through and it seriously hurt every time I flossed because I was being forced to keep cutting my gums everyday and they never got a chance to fully heal.
My son has perfect teeth and I encourage (nag 
) him to look after them 
