How To Floss With Braces Behind Teeth. These are small plastic tools that help you pull floss behind your braces easily. How to floss with braces.
Tools to make flossing easier. The user threads the floss through the ‘eye’ of the dental threader, then uses the straight end of the threader to guide the floss through the wiring of braces. Then, once you have your braces removed, your clean, brushed teeth will match the parts of your teeth that were hidden behind the braces.
Remove the floss, and gently unthread it from behind the wire.
Gently pull the floss out from behind your archwire. Be careful to not pop the floss out of the tooth. While you are on the top of your teeth, make an inverted u with the floss and go up the side of one tooth until you get to the gumline. Repeat this process until you have flossed.