Flossing is a tremendous pain, mainly because you have to floss each and every tooth. The entire act can take upwards of 4 minutes. Recent studies have shown that flossing is extremely important for long-term health: a variety of diseases including heart disease have been linked to the bacteria that flossing helps to eliminate.
I suggest that somebody invents a flosser that fits over an entire row of teeth. You would push one lever to simultaneously lower 18 individual "floss strings" around each tooth, pull it left, pull it right, and you will have flossed an entire row of teeth in 2 seconds. The device would have to be adjustable to fit any person's mouth.
You would have to adjust it the first time you used it to align the filiments with the spaces in between your teeth, and then it would "lock in" your setting going forward. There would be a seperate device for the bottom row of teeth, because the size/shape of the bottom row is generally different. The device would have an individual flossing filiment for each tooth, and would be washable and reusable.
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I can't speak for anyone else but my experience with flossing was that it is not a simple in and out process. Stubborn food fibers require individual attention for each tooth and even then it is not an easy removal. I find the small micro-brushes are much more efficient than flossing and even they require several efforts to disloge food particles. But then, perhaps I have particularly difficult teeth to clean.
Anyone with tight teeth will agree that this could never work for them. I wonder what the relative proportion in the population is?