Good on you Red Rock! I really need to dust mine off. One of the biggest reasons I got braces at age 37 is that my teeth were too crowded in a lot of places to floss effectively. Well, that's fixed, but now I have the opposite problem in that I have a couple of larger spaces between a some back teeth where food really likes to get stuck. A water pik would help.

Root canals are awful or so I hear, but what's even worse--according to both of my parents--is the treatment for peridontal disease--and that's really what a water pik will most help with. And peridontal disease is linked to heart disease, so it's just bad all the way around.