I totally get where you’re coming from—flossing felt impossible for me after I got my braces on. I remember staring at that regular string, thinking “there’s no way this is happening every night.” What helped was breaking it down into smaller steps: first, just getting used to threading the floss under the wire, then switching to those floss picks (the ones with the really thin end for braces). It’s not perfect, but honestly, it made things way less stressful.
Keeping them handy is smart. I stash a pack in my bag and another by my laptop, so I don’t have to hunt for them and end up skipping. My orthodontist still finds spots I miss sometimes, but hey, progress over perfection, right? Little tweaks like this really do add up—even if it’s not textbook-perfect every single time.
Honestly, I get the “progress over perfection” thing, but for my kid, those floss picks just didn’t cut it. Even with the thin end, stuff still got stuck around the brackets. We ended up switching to a water flosser—less hassle, and way fewer complaints at bedtime. Not saying it’s magic, but it made our routine actually doable.
