How to Brush and Maintain your Teeth with Braces
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Congratulations on getting your braces, Jacob. I'm going to go over how to take care of your braces.
Now that you have your braces on you have to learn how to eat your food a little differently. As far as anything that's hard: raw fruits, vegetables, pizza, french bread; anything that's hard or mildly hard you want to get into the habit of cutting it up or tearing it up and placing it into the back. You're not going to want to use your front teeth to bite down into anything. The pressure from that will cause your brackets to fall off. Also, as far as candy, you can't have anything chewy or sticky: bubble gum, Now or Laters, Laffy Taffy, you can't have any of that because that will also cause breakage.
I'm going to go over how to brush your teeth. It's very important with braces that when you brush your teeth, you get under and over your brackets. You want to make sure that you remove all the film away from your teeth, otherwise if that film sits on your teeth, it will turn into plaque, get hard, and start to form cavities on your teeth.
When you floss your teeth, this is called Superfloss, a unique floss. It comes in a little bag like this, we're going to give you a little sample. What's unique about this floss is that you have a little plastic part, and a spongy part, all in one strand. You're going to take the plastic part and thread it through just like this. You're going to use the spongy part to clean around the brackets and then you have the actual floss to floss around into your gum line. It's very important that you floss every day.
And then you also have some fluoride rinse. You don't have to use this particular brand, but anything with fluoride in it, I want you to swish around with it before you go to bed at night for 30 seconds. So it should be the very last thing you should do after you brush your teeth. Swish around with it for 30 seconds, after that you can't have anything to eat or drink for 30 minutes there afterwards.
You'll notice sometimes with your braces, you might have a wire that's poking you or a bracket that's bothering you. What you're going to do with the wax, you'll take a little piece of wax, roll it up into a little ball, you'll place it over the bracket or the wire, kind of creates like a little band-aid on the inside of your mouth so you can't feel anything. Less is best with the wax. Also you have some Orabase. You will notice, sometimes you will get little sores on the inside of your mouth. This is kind of like a little numbing cream. If that were to happen you just take a little piece of this, rub it on the inside of your cheek and it numbs it and makes it feel better.
Also, you're going to get a little travel toothbrush. You'll notice when you're out with family or in school, you'll notice that food will get stuck between the wire and the bracket. Take this like so, and when you brush, just make sure you go over and under just like so, to get all the food out. Also you'll notice when you eat your food, that the food will get stuck between the wire and the bracket. This is called a proximal brush. You'll take this brush just like so, and just thread it through the wire and the bracket. Just be careful not to yank or pull, you don't want to break the bracket.
Also, we're going to go over how to wear your rubber bands. I'm going to have you hold that mirror for me. It's very important that you wear your rubber bands 24 hours a day. So hypothetically, if you go to bed a 9 o'clock at night, I'd like for you to take that rubber band off and switch it to another one, every night. You're going to place it on this hook here, one hook on top, to the very last hook on the bottom. Just like so. Same goes for the other side. Very first hook on the top to the very last hook on the bottom. Smile for me and look in the mirror. And that's exactly how you're going to be wearing your rubber bands. It's very important that you wear these 24 hours a day. When you come in for your appointments we can actually tell if you've been wearing them. It's going to help fix your jaw relationship, so you've got to make sure you're being compliant with us, ok?
If you notice you have anything broken, let mom or dad know so we can get you in here and get it fixed; it can actually put you back in treatment some, so be very mindful if you have anything broken.
Video Produced By: Definitive Medical Marketing | www.definitivemedicalmarketing.com
☎️770-972-6000
📧[email protected]
Congratulations on getting your braces, Jacob. I'm going to go over how to take care of your braces.
Now that you have your braces on you have to learn how to eat your food a little differently. As far as anything that's hard: raw fruits, vegetables, pizza, french bread; anything that's hard or mildly hard you want to get into the habit of cutting it up or tearing it up and placing it into the back. You're not going to want to use your front teeth to bite down into anything. The pressure from that will cause your brackets to fall off. Also, as far as candy, you can't have anything chewy or sticky: bubble gum, Now or Laters, Laffy Taffy, you can't have any of that because that will also cause breakage.
I'm going to go over how to brush your teeth. It's very important with braces that when you brush your teeth, you get under and over your brackets. You want to make sure that you remove all the film away from your teeth, otherwise if that film sits on your teeth, it will turn into plaque, get hard, and start to form cavities on your teeth.
When you floss your teeth, this is called Superfloss, a unique floss. It comes in a little bag like this, we're going to give you a little sample. What's unique about this floss is that you have a little plastic part, and a spongy part, all in one strand. You're going to take the plastic part and thread it through just like this. You're going to use the spongy part to clean around the brackets and then you have the actual floss to floss around into your gum line. It's very important that you floss every day.
And then you also have some fluoride rinse. You don't have to use this particular brand, but anything with fluoride in it, I want you to swish around with it before you go to bed at night for 30 seconds. So it should be the very last thing you should do after you brush your teeth. Swish around with it for 30 seconds, after that you can't have anything to eat or drink for 30 minutes there afterwards.
You'll notice sometimes with your braces, you might have a wire that's poking you or a bracket that's bothering you. What you're going to do with the wax, you'll take a little piece of wax, roll it up into a little ball, you'll place it over the bracket or the wire, kind of creates like a little band-aid on the inside of your mouth so you can't feel anything. Less is best with the wax. Also you have some Orabase. You will notice, sometimes you will get little sores on the inside of your mouth. This is kind of like a little numbing cream. If that were to happen you just take a little piece of this, rub it on the inside of your cheek and it numbs it and makes it feel better.
Also, you're going to get a little travel toothbrush. You'll notice when you're out with family or in school, you'll notice that food will get stuck between the wire and the bracket. Take this like so, and when you brush, just make sure you go over and under just like so, to get all the food out. Also you'll notice when you eat your food, that the food will get stuck between the wire and the bracket. This is called a proximal brush. You'll take this brush just like so, and just thread it through the wire and the bracket. Just be careful not to yank or pull, you don't want to break the bracket.
Also, we're going to go over how to wear your rubber bands. I'm going to have you hold that mirror for me. It's very important that you wear your rubber bands 24 hours a day. So hypothetically, if you go to bed a 9 o'clock at night, I'd like for you to take that rubber band off and switch it to another one, every night. You're going to place it on this hook here, one hook on top, to the very last hook on the bottom. Just like so. Same goes for the other side. Very first hook on the top to the very last hook on the bottom. Smile for me and look in the mirror. And that's exactly how you're going to be wearing your rubber bands. It's very important that you wear these 24 hours a day. When you come in for your appointments we can actually tell if you've been wearing them. It's going to help fix your jaw relationship, so you've got to make sure you're being compliant with us, ok?
If you notice you have anything broken, let mom or dad know so we can get you in here and get it fixed; it can actually put you back in treatment some, so be very mindful if you have anything broken.
Video Produced By: Definitive Medical Marketing | www.definitivemedicalmarketing.com
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