What to Do if You Get Floss Caught in Your Teeth

SJVC Visalia's Dental Hygiene Program Director Brenda Serpa shares tips on how to remove floss stuck in between your teeth.

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

*cut to me, sitting on the couch, watch this with floss sticking out of my mouth, making me look like a captured fish*

[merlethomas]

Ok.. this was absolutely no help at all

[owlfethurz]

To save money I bought some cheap floss that shredded easily...BIG MISTAKE! It got stuck between a back molar. I tried a few things, including trying to push it down with a stronger piece of floss, trying to push it up by using a cleaner that goes between the teeth, even using tweezers. Nothing worked.
The next morning I tried swishing some cooking oil around my mouth and kept trying to dislodge but it wouldn't budge and even bleeding a bit, so I left it there to see if it would work out. I finally got it out while watching this (I tried using another piece of floss to put it down again)
Wow, I won't buy check floss ever again

[mwareviews]

Double the floss so you’re using two strings together instead of one and try again. The floss should not shed if you use two strings together. You can also twist the strings aswell which prevents breakage even more

[-danR]

If it's in a back molar, be sure to get:
strong light
needle-nose tweezers (If you have to go to the store and buy it, it's worth it).
(small) nail scissors.
Until I could actually _see_ what that thing was doing, I couldn't realize what I was trying to do was a waste of time. There was a thick lump on the one side. Grasped the lump hard with the tweezers and pulled sideways and some of the floss came out a a few millimeters nicely.
Snipped the lump-end floss and pulled the other end without any fuss.

[schuylersilverstein]

Used another piece of floss to get it out. Was panicked for a minute because it was my far back tooth

[supershash]

Tip: you can double up on cheap floss to make it stronger and use that to get it out

[arlene]

I was so deseperate when it got stuck and I was just trying to pull it out really hard and it did came out but now my thoot hurts a little bit ☹️🦷

[baddiepatrick]

I tried to pull out my tooth with floss thread and THE FLOSS IS STUCK IN MY GUM/TOOTH THING IDEK AT THIS POINT someone help me I’m crying

[alaynac]

ITS STUCK IN MY BRACES, NOT BETWEEN MY TEETH

[NairuOnLife]

I got unlucky... was using the same floss for a year and a half... got a big bulk case of it... very last piece, frayed on me... now waiting until tomorrow to buy new stuff to try and dislodge it.... hopefully my teeth shift overnight and it just pulls out in the morning. T.T

[riiddler]

I’m here bc I had a small ball of floss suck between my teeth and I had to grind it down with another piece of floss until it came out and let me tell u.... the amount of blood that I had cursed myself with was UNNECESSARY

[reeseiannacone]

thanks to the dentist I had that accepted Medi-Cal I'm now sueing them for their shitty fillings c:

[mdproductions]

Thank god as a member of the public i have a floss threader at home! Nonsense

[zeroblockmc_player]

Is there other why to remove moral teeth upper? Cuz mine is stuck ; -;





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[mikecadigan]

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