What does a floss holder do?

Nowadays, people pay much attention to oral care, owing to it has a great influence on their life. It’s well known to all that people with good dental health can live a longer life than those who are in a bad status of dental health. Besides tooth brushing, tongue scraping, flossing the teeth is taken as part of daily routine oral care.

A dental floss holder, or called pre-threaded flosser, is a dental instrument that holds a section of floss for easy flossing to the teeth. It’s usually a small plastic dental tool with a curved end that holds a piece of dental floss. The other end is a firm grip that can be easily held by users while flossing. It benefits people who are not that skillful with their fingers and who need to take care of someone else's teeth.

After eating or meals, food debris remains in the oral cavity and keeps hidden along the gum line or between the teeth. As there’s little space, a floss holder is needed to get the cleaning job done. A wooden toothpick is not recommended to be used, as it can break off and stuck between the teeth. It’s also too sharp and hard and can hurt the gums easily.

I. Are floss holders effective?

People may have different opinions on this issue. But obviously, it’s good for people who have trouble in using floss only. These people are not that tactfully and it will take them much time for finish the flossing thoroughly. Even for people who are good at it, flossing the teeth is not an easy job, especially in this busy modern society.

The floss holder is designed to make flossing efficient and save time and trouble for users.

Daily oral care work is significant for dental health, but flossing from tooth to tooth can be boring when people are busy and don’t have too much time for it. The floss holder will release the users’ pressure and make the flossing easy and enjoyable. Moreover, for hard-to-reach parts in the cavity where there is limited space for the floss held by fingers, floss holder provides a perfect solution. As you see, it’s rather effective in the daily oral care. 

II. Benefits of Using Floss Holder

Teeth cleaning can be simple, fast and effective. You can recall the bad memory of failed flossing with floss only. Thin floss is hard to handle with fingers and there’re always hard-to-reach areas that bother you a lot, like the back teeth.

When you hold the floss with fingers, you may get distracted and feel little tired and painful with your fingers after flossing for some time.

For space that is not available for tooth brushing, flossing works better. It’s gradually accepted by more and more people that cleaning between the teeth with floss holder is more efficient and helpful.

III. Disposable and Reused Floss Holders

There’re disposable and reused floss holders. Disposable plastic floss holders are pre-threaded with dental floss.

For reused floss holders, they can be made of plastic or wood and should be threaded with a new section of floss for each use.