The 1995 Ig Nobel Prize for dentistry was awarded to Robert H. Beaumont, of Shoreview, Minnesota, for his incisive study “Patient Preference for Waxed or Unwaxed Dental Floss.” The study appeared in the Journal of Periodontology, vol. 61, no. 2, Feb. 1990, pp. 123-5. The study says: “The purpose of this study was to discover patient preference […]