Caring For Your Teeth With Hidden Braces
There are so many things to deal with when your children are going through teenage age for them and for you if you are parent. Dental health may be far from your teenagers mind during these emotional times, but these years of dental treatment are important to their long term happiness.
Although there is so much more on your teenager's plate you need to help them by making sure they understand the reasons to consider braces for teeth and that there are lots of option. Now the most difficult part of wearing braces is thoroughly cleaning them. There are hard to reach areas that don't seem to get penetrated even by through brushing.
Hidden braces for teeth are really required unique attention and care of any dental appliance, because braces usually last two to four years and dislocations of the brackets may lead to a visit to the dental clinic. Now people are using hidden braces are faced with responsibility of brushing their teeth after every meal and before going to sleep. Actually, the reason of being that food debris clings on to teeth with braces even after gargling.
It is also imperative to know what kinds of food are recommended to people who wear braces. Dentists recommend easy chewing, well cooked and soft foods, to avoid breakage and misalignment of braces. The types of braces should avoid are:
Tough to bite and touch to chew foods are 80% of dental appliance breakage are caused by eating hard foods. The wire in hidden braces is not very tough, so when biting hard foods, be sure to direct the bite to the second and third molars and not to the front teeth and cuspids to avoid loosening of the brackets.
Now uncooked food obviously a breeding ground for bacteria and other vicious elements, uncooked food is definitely unsafe to eat when one wears braces. The bacteria may nest in hidden parts of the teeth, thus making it harder to clean and may promote unnoticed tartar buildup.
Acidic foods and drinks - hidden braces for teeth are metallic devices and therefore are prone to stains that, in turn, may collude with the surface of the tooth, causing permanent stains.
Foods with high sugar content and sticky foods - sweet foods that leave a residue of stickiness on the teeth may cause a variety of unsightly dental conditions in the long run. As you may know, high sucrose content is the catalyst for plaque buildup, and what more if that sticky material latches on to the surface of the teeth and in-between the braces.
Another thing is gum. This is not prohibited when wearing braces for teeth, but because of the high sugar content most gums have and the risks that it imposes, it is advised to eat only sugarless gum. Hard foods usually require the full aid of the front teeth to do initiate the bite. This, in turn, leads to a more stringent bite, that may cause the food to pull the wires, thereby dislocating the brackets on the front teeth.
Although there is so much more on your teenager's plate you need to help them by making sure they understand the reasons to consider braces for teeth and that there are lots of option. Now the most difficult part of wearing braces is thoroughly cleaning them. There are hard to reach areas that don't seem to get penetrated even by through brushing.
Hidden braces for teeth are really required unique attention and care of any dental appliance, because braces usually last two to four years and dislocations of the brackets may lead to a visit to the dental clinic. Now people are using hidden braces are faced with responsibility of brushing their teeth after every meal and before going to sleep. Actually, the reason of being that food debris clings on to teeth with braces even after gargling.
It is also imperative to know what kinds of food are recommended to people who wear braces. Dentists recommend easy chewing, well cooked and soft foods, to avoid breakage and misalignment of braces. The types of braces should avoid are:
Tough to bite and touch to chew foods are 80% of dental appliance breakage are caused by eating hard foods. The wire in hidden braces is not very tough, so when biting hard foods, be sure to direct the bite to the second and third molars and not to the front teeth and cuspids to avoid loosening of the brackets.
Now uncooked food obviously a breeding ground for bacteria and other vicious elements, uncooked food is definitely unsafe to eat when one wears braces. The bacteria may nest in hidden parts of the teeth, thus making it harder to clean and may promote unnoticed tartar buildup.
Acidic foods and drinks - hidden braces for teeth are metallic devices and therefore are prone to stains that, in turn, may collude with the surface of the tooth, causing permanent stains.
Foods with high sugar content and sticky foods - sweet foods that leave a residue of stickiness on the teeth may cause a variety of unsightly dental conditions in the long run. As you may know, high sucrose content is the catalyst for plaque buildup, and what more if that sticky material latches on to the surface of the teeth and in-between the braces.
Another thing is gum. This is not prohibited when wearing braces for teeth, but because of the high sugar content most gums have and the risks that it imposes, it is advised to eat only sugarless gum. Hard foods usually require the full aid of the front teeth to do initiate the bite. This, in turn, leads to a more stringent bite, that may cause the food to pull the wires, thereby dislocating the brackets on the front teeth.
