Chances are, if you have teeth in your head, you are going to need to floss during a really inconvenient time. You may come to regret the rash decisions you feel necessary to get the job done. Such was the night of a very public Christmas party in a local restaurant’s banquet room. It was a dress-up affair and the guests were from every walk of life. We were eating usual banquet fare: baked chicken, steamed broccoli, fried apples, salad. When a piece of broccoli became lodged in the center of my bottom teeth, I very calmly and discreetly tried to unhinge it by using my tongue of steel, as…