Dental floss holder

In a dental floss holder comprising a handle, a floss holding head attached to said handle, and connecting means attached to said handle, both said head and said connecting means being dimensioned and configured to be detachably connected to one another, the improvement comprising head positioning means mounted on said handle in movable, engaging relationship to said floss holding head, said head positioning means comprising sleeve means disposed in contiguous, sliding relationship around a predetermined segment of the outer surface of said handle;

• arm means formed on said sleeve means and extending forwardly therefrom in substantially parallel relationship to the longitudinal dimension of said handle;
• track means dimensioned and configured to receive said arm means therein formed on said handle;
• and a plurality of stop means formed on said handle in motion-limiting relation to said sleeve means;
• said arm means further comprising a plurality of teeth means formed on the forward end thereof in operative relation to a predetermined portion of said head, said head including a plurality of cog means formed on said predetermined portion, whereby longitudinal sliding of said sleeve means results in corresponding intermeshing of said teeth means and said cog means to angularly orient said head with respect to the longitudinal dimension of said handle.