During orthodontic treatment, the following things are important for patients to be aware of.
On time many orthodontic patients are students, homework is heavy.
In particular, some children in the stage of school, often can not return on time.
General fixed correction asks four weeks return visit, activity correction asks two weeks return visit.
These times are calculated by the orthodontist according to the speed and regularity of tooth movement.
Early, not conducive to tooth movement;
Delay is not good for tooth control.
Therefore, to ask the teacher’s understanding, according to the doctor’s appointment time in time.
Close cooperation In the process of treatment, patients often need to wear some appliances, such as external mouth arch, retractor, head cap, and sometimes need to replace the rubber band.
The force of the orthodontic teeth is transmitted to the teeth through these devices, so the time of wearing these devices directly affects the effect of the orthodontic teeth.
Therefore, patients must be absolutely, according to the doctor’s orders to wear the appliance.
Some treatments require an external arch to ensure safety.
The outer bow wire is thicker, and the strength of the rubber band is larger, so the improper use is easy to cause danger.
Injuries caused by external bows have been reported in the United States.
There, most children are not embarrassed to wear appliances, but “cool”, so they wear them to catch birds from trees and fish from rivers.
The report is a primary school student, because of the external arch of the mouth improper wear, resulting in eye injury.
Therefore, the external oral arch must be used according to the method of the doctor’s guidance.
Don’t let your friends play.
Hard foods like hairy crabs, walnuts, beef jerky, pizza, ribs, and sticky foods like chewing gum, bubble gum, and rice cakes are prone to peeling off the brackets.
Anything that might affect the appliance should be given a wide berth.
Apples and other fruits should also be cut into slices before eating.
Do not delay the process of treatment because of a temporary mouth.
Think about it, after the treatment, a neat teeth, and then chewing the long-lost delicious, that is a great meal!
Good Hygiene and by hygiene I mean oral hygiene.
Intraoral appliances do make it difficult to maintain oral hygiene.
This requires patients to brush their teeth more carefully and carefully.
A special orthodontic toothbrush can be used.
When brushing teeth to multi-azimuth, multi-angle, small amplitude, the teeth of each tooth surface and bracket, arch wire gap to brush.
To increase the frequency of brushing teeth, in addition to brushing teeth every morning and evening, every meal to brush teeth.
The reason for this emphasis is that the quality of oral hygiene is also related to the success of orthodontics.
Often can meet such patients, because of poor oral hygiene, gum swelling hyperplasia, bracket covered, so that the treatment had to stop.
