US Patent 12082984 Interdental instrument

An interdental instrument may include a handling section (handle) for manual gripping of the interdental instrument, a carrier held by the handling section, on which an interdental part (e.g. a flossette or an abrasive element) is arranged, a joint device for pivotally holding the carrier on the handling section, so that the carrier can be pivoted relative to the handling section about a pivot axis between at least two mutually angularly offset holding positions. The joint device may include two mutually opposite sliding guide surfaces which are formed on the carrier side and/or handling section side, where the pivot axis crosses the sliding guide surfaces and may be being perpendicular to the two sliding guide surfaces.