Dental Floss Holder, Refillable & Reusable Floss Pick - Dental Floss Handle - Stainless Steel Dental Floss Holder. Durable Reusable Flosser - One Pack

This stainless steel flosser, on the right, is roughly a copy of the flosser type I have been using for years, pictured on left, with two differences; it is a tad smaller which is not a big deal, and it is unbreakable, which IS a big deal. The plastic one, brand name Flossaid, is an excellent tool and is the only reason I floss daily, because I refuse to put my several fingers in my mouth to floss, daily, using the floss and fingers method. Way too unhygenic. And the little plastic disposable ones are too small, I still need to put fingers in mouth to reach back teeth, too flimsy, and too wasteful. Disposable means wasteful. The big drawback to the Flossaid and similar products is they always break after a few months of use. One tine always breaks off near the handle. So they need to be replaced frequently. This cost adds up $$$.I just did a first use of the metal one and it feels like using the plastic Flossaid, just a tad smaller and heavier. The major point here, to me, is that the steel one will never break! I am very happy to have found this product.Tip: Wrap 10 or 20 yards of floss tightly around the handle. When you need to reload the fork to floss again just unwrap a few inches and put it across the tines. Each reload will be much faster than and less fumbling than reaching for the floss box. Waxed floss stays in place on the handle much better than unwaxed floss.Dentist joke: "Only floss the ones you want to keep!"

The handle works well, just as I optimistically expected. It's easy to put floss on it and to use it to floss teeth. The handle is comfortable in the hand at all angles, it's not sharp or uncomfortable in the mouth, the floss stays on the handle.There are plenty of bad reviews that I can see now are operator error. First, the floss must be good quality, not the low quality stuff that comes with the handle. Good floss stretches a little, so the length tied to the handle has some slack allowing it to curve around the tooth for flossing it, then the one next to it, before moving on. The little rounded prongs at the tips keep the floss on well. But all that requires a little skill, keeping the floss tensioned by pushing the handle forward while working the floss between and then against the teeth. Closely spaced teeth require some working side to side along the floss to get in there at first, then flossing, then side to side again back out. That can wear the floss faster, so replacing it once or more during the operation is good practice. Which also gives fresh floss for the next teeth. So put double the length of floss needed to load it and screw it down, then unscrew/advance/rescrew the screw clamp as teeth are done and the floss wears. Any flossing requires a little skill, and this handle's skills are a little different, but only a little. Once up to skill it's much easier with the handle than barehanded.I'd give the handle 5 instead of 4 stars, but it could be improved. The screw clamp could have a flange on the back side of the handle so it can't screw all the way out and drop off. Instructions could be included for people who can't figure out the slightly different skills. The included floss is garbage, including its plastic bag, which is just a waste. But otherwise the handle works very well, is cheap and durable. At about 25% higher price than a pack of flimsy plastic versions that will break / wear out within months, this handle will last for years, and is well worth it.

It was worth a try, but it's not going to work. I wanted a way to use less floss and not have to cut the circulation off of my fingers, but with this thing I just ended up hurting my mouth. It's hard to use and get the floss tight. Could it work? Maybe? Not for me though. Too much trouble to return it I guess.

I was really excited to see a non-plastic floss holder, but it just didn't work out well. My usual dental tape wouldn't work well, so I took the advice of another reviewer and got Oral-B Glide, which did work out better. However, in order to maintain tension, it is necessary to use a much longer piece of floss than I would ordinarily use so that the ends could be wrapped around the screw sufficiently. Even so, one piece of floss would break before I had made one round to all of my teeth. In the end, I decided that the benefits of this device were outweighed by the need to use more than double the amount of floss that I would use when flossing the "old fashioned" way with my fingers.

I like that this is stainless steel, but on my first use, I nicked my gum with it. The ends where the floss goes around is a bit sharp, so it has to be used carefully with tight teeth. Wax type floss does not work well unless you wrap it around the edges several times to get it tight. I really have started doing that with all types of floss using this tool, just to make the ends safer. Once you get the hang of it, and can get the floss tight enough, it works fairly well. I prefer the stainless steel over the plastic ones, but it takes a little more effort to be safe enough not to cut your gums.

It's great and cuts out so much waste. I prefer to floss with a pick because I hate cutting off the circulation in my fingers and inserting them in my mouth. This is really easy to use, and does the same job and uses the little bundles of floss I get from the dentist. Another reviewer suggested winding a whole thing of floss around the handle so you can just re-string it after each use.When I was researching, there were some complaints about the tension, but I think that's just a thing that happens if you have tight spaced teeth. It's not a big deal to retighten it, and the tension for me hasn't been an issue that the floss comes off the grooves, I can still do everything in 1 or 2 strings. I'm so so glad I got this.