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Surviving By The Skin Of Your Teeth: 7 Reasons To Stock Up On Dental Floss

Surviving By The Skin Of Your Teeth: 7 Reasons To Stock Up On Dental Floss

Last Updated: August 25, 2018 By Cheeky Team Member

Your dentist regularly admonishes you to use dental floss, as it could protect your teeth. But, it could also protect your life and well-being. A box of dental floss is light and super-portable, these factors alone make dental floss a potentially great additions to a survival gear-pack.

Not only can you get food out from between your teeth, you can keep intruders away with an improvised alarm you can rig with noisy cans and a trip-wire constructed of floss. The waxy coating covering floss is flammable, which makes it a serviceable form of tinder. Other things you can do with floss? Make a snare. Use it to splint an injury. Create a clothes line with it. Even twine it to make a rope. You’ll be happy you grabbed it from the vanity cabinet.

Key Takeaways:

  • Dental floss makes a great item for any go bag because of its light weight, convenient size, cheap price and versatility.
  • The waxy coating on dental floss makes an excellent substitute for tinder when starting a fire.
  • Floss can also be used to make snares or fishing lines for catching food, or braided together into a rope.

“To keep intruders and critters in check you can easily set up an improvised alarm system by only using empty food or soda cans and dental floss!”

Read more: https://survivallife.com/dental-floss-uses/

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