The winter vacation passed very quickly, and it was time for school to start in a blink of an eye. There are many friends with crooked teeth who choose to straighten their teeth during the winter vacation, and "counterattack" their appearance after the start of school.
So how should you take care of your teeth when you go back to school to make the orthodontic effect more stable and lasting? Xiao Guang will tell you!
If you want to straighten your teeth, you need to maintain them well
Pay attention to oral hygiene
The most important thing is to keep the mouth clean and hygienic, and those who are going to school may not be able to brush their teeth after meals, so we can always have some portable mouthwash, orthodontic brushes or dental floss at school.
After eating, go to the bathroom to rinse your mouth and clean up the food residue between the braces and between the teeth, and try to keep your teeth clean and hygienic to prevent tooth decay.
Correct bad habits of using teeth
Some friends like to bite their fingers, pen barrels and other objects when they are thinking, which may break or damage the aligners, and even cause the teeth to displace.
Therefore, friends who like to bite foreign objects, this habit has to be changed.
Beware of dental trauma
In addition, during the school period, there are more opportunities for activities, especially for lively and active friends, it is easy to accidentally bump their teeth when playing or exercising with their classmates.
It can cause attachments such as wires and brackets to fall off, and it may also cause damage to teeth and gums, so it is important to pay extra attention to safety during school activities.
Pay attention to your diet
Drink less milk tea, eat less candy and other foods high in sugar to prevent sugar from attaching to the brackets to provide nutrients for oral bacteria, help them develop and develop, and cause tooth decay.
Food that is too sticky and too hard can also cause the brackets to fall, so try to avoid eating them as much as possible.
Review regularly
When the braces are worn to a certain stage, you need to review to see if the displacement of the teeth is correct and whether it needs to be adjusted, and if the displacement of the teeth reaches the standard, you can move on to the next stage.
In addition, the time of the review should also follow a certain rule, and it must not be too frequent or too long. Frequent re-examination and adjustment will cause periodontal tissue damage, and the re-examination interval will be too long, and the tooth force will be interrupted, which will also slow down the correction speed.
Wear retainers consistently
For those who have taken off their braces, congratulations first, the long march of correction is coming to an end, but ≠ the end of the correction after taking off the braces, you also need to wear a suitable retainer regularly and enough to consolidate the correction effect and prevent **.