What is a Dental Floss Threader?
Flossing is easy for some people to accomplish, but for others it is quite difficult to do because of different reasons. A person might have a crown that is difficult to floss around or they might have some sort of particular arrangement of teeth (or braces) that prevents flossing normally. For people like this, a dental floss threader is an absolute must have in the grand scheme of things. It is a plastic tool that is almost like a sewing needle in the sense that it has a loop at one end and using this plastic tool and a piece of dental floss about a school ruler’s length in size will allow you to get around these problems. When you place the string through the loop, make sure that half of the string is on each end so that the next steps are not wasted.
Once you have that done, the next step is to gain a foothold by placing the dental floss threader in between the bridge of your tooth and the gums. You do this by leading with the side of the dental floss threader that does not have the loop and the motion could be likened to pressing with a sewing needle with the side that does not have the loop as well. This concept was initially inspired by a sewing needle, so it is not exactly an inapt comparison to draw.
Once you have the foothold established, the next step is to draw the threader completely through the area you want to floss in, making sure to hold both ends of the string of floss while you do that. Once the threader has come all the way through, you will find that one end of the floss has gone with it while the other end has remained behind. You can now remove the threader from the floss and then move the floss back and forth in the normal flossing motion that you were initially taught by your dentist. As you can see, in this particular case the threader does act exactly like a sewing needle and the best part about it is the fact that you can use it repeatedly for multiple areas of your mouth that might need it.
When all is said and done, the main reason that people use this tool is for being able to clean between a bridge on one of their teeth and the actual gum line that the bridge extends to. This area is almost impossible to reach without the use of such a tool, but that does not mean that it is the only place in which the tool is useful. Braces are another good example, since they cut off part of the space in between teeth and make it hard to floss without the use of a threader to get the floss into those areas. The threader does make the actual flossing process one that lasts a lot longer, but the end results are much better in those cases where some parts of your inter-tooth spaces are difficult to reach without its help.
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