Dental Floss Holder-Single Handle

This item works as advertised. It holds the floss in place and makes it easy to floss. Having said that depending on the type of floss used, how close your teeth are and how well you wrap the floss onto the handle it does have tendency to loosen its grip on the floss.I usually use the plastic thin and rip resistant kind of floss and I wrap each end two times around the holding pin. This works for me pretty well albeit due to the floss string stretching sometimes I do have to undo one side to apply more tension. Remember that you can also slightly bend the forks closer to each other before wrapping the floss around securely on the other side to apply more tension. But make sure not to overdo it as there's risk that plastic will break.I've given it 4 stars due to the design issues that cause this product to waste excessive amounts of floss string. You only use about 1.5 to 2 inches of the floss that's between the 2 fork points, rest of the floss is wasted. Design should be redone to incorporate 2 holding points on the tips of the forks so that it's not as wasteful. Maybe a little round "ball" that we can wrap the floss around on both fork points could do the trick.All in all it does make flossing for those of us with larger hands and people that have use of only 1 hand etc. a whole lot easier.Update 1/21/2016: Yes, I upgraded it to 5 stars, I still have the item and I still use it every day. After this long of a time wasting of floss gets overshadowed by the longevity (aka life) of the product. I did not expect it to last this long but it did! And it;s still going strong, albeit with a few scars (scratches in plain English) here and there that my teeth have imposed upon it.Update (09/10/2017): The floss holder is no more. It has finally developed a crack on one of the prongs after being used every day for the past 5+ years. Ordering next one now. Well worth the money.

This is a poorly-designed tool. The central spindle is free spinning and made of metal, so not only does it rotate but the floss also has little friction and so allows the floss to slip — even when using far more floss than would be necessary to just wrap it around index fingers and do it the “old fashioned” way.To make this worse, the forks are oversized. “Proper” use of this tool requires that you pinch the forks together when setting the floss up, meaning that the forks will *always* be pulling against the floss. Coupled with the low-friction metal of the free-spinning spindle, the floss *will* loosen and allow the forks to open up inside your mouth. This provides a double-whammy: the loss of tension will make it hard to thread floss between your teeth & the fully-open forks make it hard to maneuver the handle at all.Already narrow forks with a tool body that is single-piece plastic so that there’s no free-spinning, smooth, metal spindle is the way this should’ve been designed.Yes, it’s pretty inexpensive: almost nothing. But you get what you pay for: almost nothing.

I have been using this style of flosser since I was in elementary school, and Flossaid's is great. Basically, you take a piece of floss, wrap it a couple times around the circular knob, stretch it up and over the forked part, and then bring it back down around the knob a couple more times while pulling it tight.I really don't like flossing the usual way (i.e., by wrapping it around both index fingers) because it cuts off blood circulation in my fingers -- not a very nice sensation. This little contraption maintains the tension of the floss without putting pressure on my fingers, thus allowing me to take more time to floss thoroughly and comfortably. I would highly recommend this product to anyone who finds flossing unpleasant, as well as to those who don't mind flossing. It does take an extra 5-10 seconds, but it makes the flossing process very easy and comfortable. Also, it's really cheap and lasts a long time.

....with a few nitpicks of course. Price and effectiveness are fine, its much easier to floss with this thing (particularly with the back teeth!!) than it is with just plain floss or those cheezy disposable plastic flosser/pick things. In my opinion though I think they should've made it out of something a little stronger. Oh it doesn't feel or look flimsy at all at first, but in order to get good tension on the floss while putting it on you have to squeeze the arms of the floss holder together fairly firmly, otherwise the floss can fall off the holder easily or be difficult to pull out of the tight spots. I've only been using mine for a few days but I'm always worried I'm going to accidentally snap it while putting the floss on (and no I'm not squeezing the arms together more than the 3/4" the instructions specify!!) since it appears to be made out of cheap acrylic plastic, which in my experience doesn't hold up well to pressure at all. Perhaps its just me being worried over nothing...