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Sure, there's more than one cause of breath odor, and one of those is perio, the prognosis of which is improved by regular flossing (and other oral therapies). Morning breath doesn't reek the same way perio breath does, and it's a world of smells and other issues that are hard to forget.

The truth of the research is that flossing doesn't significantly contribute to oral health when done alongside adequate manual brushing- diet, hygiene habits, and personal chemistry accounted for. That's not new info; clean is clean.

However, most people don't brush adequately or frequently enough and aren't using good electric brushes, so flossing does help them.

And it sounds like you've been really lucky so far, but don't rely on odor as an indicator of your health. By the time you can smell a lot of things, they've been problems for a while.