A hand-held dental flossing device facilitates a user to control feed and tension of a dental floss during the flossing of teeth. The hand-held dental flossing device comprises a body having a handle, a head with plurality of arms, and a floating platform. The plurality of arms comprises one or more closed loops to facilitate a passage of a dental floss. The floating platform comprises a first spool, and a second spool. The first spool is configured for unwinding the dental floss for discharging upon rotation by a user. The second spool is adapted to wind a used portion of the dental floss upon rotation of the first spool and the second spool simultaneously by the user. The hand-held dental flossing device enables the user to control the tension of the dental floss at various modes by operating the first spool and the second spool.

An oral insert includes a plurality of manifolds and a plurality of fluid nozzles. A manifold switch is coupled to the plurality of manifolds. The manifold switch is configured to select which of the plurality manifolds is to receive fluid from a fluid source.

A method of cleaning teeth includes the steps of providing a vibration generating handle that generates vibrations via a mounting post. An interproximal pick device is adapted to be mounted on the mounting post and includes an elongate resilient pick that is sized and shaped for cleaning between the teeth. A rigid tubular housing defines an inner conduit, with a proximal end of the elongate resilient pick being fixedly secured within the inner conduit adjacent a top end, and a resilient tube positioned within the inner conduit adjacent a bottom end. The interproximal pick device is mounted on the mounting post of the vibration generating handle such that the mounting post frictionally engages the resilient tube and transmits vibrations through the resilient tube to the elongate resilient pick.

An interproximal pick device has an elongate resilient pick that extends from a rigid tubular housing. A proximal end of the elongate resilient pick is fixedly secured within an inner conduit adjacent a top end of the rigid tubular housing. A resilient tube is positioned within the inner conduit adjacent a bottom end of the rigid tubular housing. The resilient tube is sized and shaped to receive the mounting post of a sonic vibration generating handle, such that sonic vibrations from the mounting post are transmitted through the resilient tube, through the rigid tubular housing, and into the elongate resilient pick, for cleaning between the teeth.

A dental flossing device that allows for simplifying the process of flossing by providing a removable flossing cartridge that includes a distribution reel containing clean, unused, flossing material, and a take-up reel which will eventually contain used flossing material, such that a clean flossing material may be used to clean teeth while preventing used flossing material from being repeatedly used. In addition, the collection of the used flossing material within the cartridge prevents the user from coming into contact with bacteria that may be collected on the used flossing material.

A comprehensive and sensuous oral cleaner (10A, 10B, 10C, and 10D) is disclosed to automate and modernize all necessary oral hygiene. The cleaner comprises a power driver (12, 12B, 12C, 12D) that can selectively power-drive a replaceable flosser attachment (13, 14, 15, 17), a replaceable synergistic multi-motion toothbrush attachment (29), and an anti-halitosis attachment (81). The driver also power-drives scent from fragrance sources (68, 24) in the attachments for sensuous ambiance while oral cleaning. The toothbrush attachment is detachably connectable to the power driver for imparting plural motions of a long-bristle toothbrush (77). These actions serve for driving long toothbrush bristles to longitudinally penetrate interdentally for power-brushing interdental contours. In the flosser attachment, a floss span is power-driven in plural motions to efficiently remove plaque as the moving span follows, scrubs, and polishes interdental contours between adjacent teeth. Three embodiments of the flosser attachment use warmed power-driven air to dry the used floss for odor-free storage until replacement of the attachment. Alternatively, two of the flosser attachment embodiments feature an antimicrobial (68) that coats the used floss to inhibit microbial activity. The power-driven anti-halitosis attachment drives a multi-bladed tongue scraper (89, 89B) along with pressurized air to neutralize causal anaerobic tongue bacteria.

A dental floss device, which includes a shell, a floss supply box, and a drive device; the floss supply box includes a box arranged in an accommodating cavity of the shell; a floss supply assembly mounted in the box, the floss supply assembly is capable of recovering an used floss and releasing an unused floss under driving of the drive device; a floss holder, one end of the floss holder is connected with the floss supply assembly, and another end of the floss holder is capable of extending out of the shell, the floss holder is configured to stretch a floss released by the floss supply assembly; the box, the floss supply assembly and the floss holder are made of degradable or recyclable materials.

Oral appliances, their components, and methods of their use for oral mapping and hygiene are disclosed. One method of using an oral appliance, comprises using a tool while the tool is at least partially within the oral cavity of a living creature; moving the tool, with a motion generator comprised of at least one linear and/or rotary motion-producing device; retrieving a map from machine-readable memory; and processing, with nonhuman processing circuitry, the map to generate control signals for controlling movement of the motion generator; and the processing circuitry using the map to control the motion generator to move the tool within the oral cavity so that the tool performs one of the functions of: cleaning, inspecting, scanning, imaging, dispensing, repairing, and surgery of anatomical features of the oral cavity.