Dental floss holder and dispenser

In combination, a dental filament dispenser and holder device utilizing components of a first Split Ring-spring snap fastener and components of a second Split Ring-spring snap fastener to hold dental filament in a flaccid bight posture comprising:

• a right wall, a top wall, a left wall, a front wall, a bottom wall, a left slot, a left framed opening, a right slot, a right framed opening, and a bottom hinge means in which said walls, said bottom hinge means, said slots, and said framed openings adjoin an access opening to a compartment of said container;
• a back wall of said dispenser and holder device positioned opposing said access opening;
• a reeled spool of dental filament incorporated in said compartment;
• a working end of said filament unreeled from said spool;
• said bottom hinge means interposed between said bottom wall and said front wall providing rotatable means by which to convert said left slot and said right slot into said left framed opening and said right framed opening respectively, and to convert said left framed opening and said right framed opening into said left slot and said right slot respectively as a result of said front wall exposing or covering said access opening respectively;
• a left short wall appendage and a right short wall appendage of a container between each form an indentation about which said filament may be manipulated;
• a stud of said first snap fastener connected to said left short wall appendage and a stud of said second snap fastener thus being a second stud component connected to said right short wall appendage wherein an opening through said left short wall is congruently aligned with an opening of said first stud and an opening through said right short wall is congruently aligned with an opening of said second stud;
• a flexible left strap and a flexible right strap connected with said device;
• and, a socket of said first snap fastener is connected with said left strap and a socket of said second snap fastener is connected with said right strap wherein said first socket interlocks with said first stud, and said second socket interlocks with said second stud.

A method of holding a dental filament, comprising the steps of:

• utilizing interlocking Split Ring-spring snap fastener components connected with a dental filament holder device;
• incorporating a spool of the filament in a compartment of the device;
• pulling a working end of the filament unreeled from the spool;
• placing the working end through a first stud component of a first split ring-spring snap fastener, the first stud component being connected with a left wall appendage of the device;
• placing the working end through an opening of a left strap;
• placing the working end through an opening of the left wall appendage;
• placing the working end through a first eyelet component of the first snap fastener, the first eyelet component interlocking with the first stud component;
• grasping and pulling the working end;
• placing the working end through a second eyelet component of a second split ring-spring snap fastener;
• placing the working end through an opening of a right wall appendage;
• placing the working end through an opening of a right strap;
• placing the working end through a second stud component of the second snap fastener, the second eyelet component interlocking with the second stud component;
• pulling the working end to a suspending position alongside the device;
• compressing and interlocking a second socket component of the second snap fastener with the second stud component, the second socket component being connected with the right strap;
• manipulating a standing end of the filament into a bight;
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• compressing and interlocking a first socket component of the first snap fastener with the first stud component, the first socket component being connected with the left strap.