1, pay attention to orthodontics.
Note 1: It is very important to brush your teeth during orthodontics. Some people have square marks on their teeth after taking off their braces, and they look less smooth than before. This is decalcification caused by poor oral hygiene. After removing braces, slight decalcification will be gradually improved through diet, but if decalcification is serious, even a small hole will be formed on the tooth, which cannot be repaired. Therefore, it is very important to brush your teeth during orthodontics.
During orthodontic treatment, it is best to brush your teeth with a special orthodontic toothbrush or interval brush, and the hardness of the bristles should be moderate and soft. When choosing a toothbrush, if you can't touch it, you usually look at the bristles. The tips of the bristles are softer than the roots. In addition, vertical brushing can not be used in orthodontics, and the method of combining horizontal brushing with cyclic brushing should be adopted.
Note 2: It is very important not to "chew" the food during orthodontics, because brushing teeth becomes more difficult, so try to let children eat less sticky food, such as glutinous rice food such as rice cakes. In addition, let children eat less hard objects that will affect the appliance, such as bones, nuts, fried food and so on. Large pieces of food should be cut into small pieces and sent to the mouth. It is best not to eat all the foods that need to be chewed, such as sugar cane and apples. If you want to eat, you can cut it into pieces. Cui reminded that there will be slight loosening during orthodontics. At this time, don't accidentally touch your teeth, such as tableware and sports bumps, which will seriously cause pulp necrosis.
Note 3: After orthodontics, it is said that orthodontics is "half by doctors and half by yourself". Parents' supervision and children's cooperation are very important, and parents and children are particularly easy to ignore the stage of wearing the retainer after taking off the braces. Because children can take off the retainer by themselves, many children are reluctant to wear it, but the role of the retainer in maintaining the orthodontic effect can not be ignored, because the muscles and nerves of the body need an adaptation process to the corrected state, and if the retainer is not worn, the possibility of recurrence is greater. You usually need to wear it for 24 hours at first, and then the time will be shorter and shorter, for example, you only need to wear it when you sleep, or wear it every other day. If you wear braces, you can come once every six months.
Note 4: Choose different instruments according to indications. In addition to traditional braces, there are transparent braces, ceramic braces, aesthetic steel wire, invisible braces without brackets, lingual orthodontics that outsiders simply can't see, and self-locking brackets that require less follow-up time. Their comfort has also been significantly improved, and their strength is relatively soft, but these have different indications and their economic costs are several times different. You can make a choice according to your own needs and the advice of professional doctors.
2. Correct the misunderstanding of teeth
Myth 1: Only children can receive corrective treatment.
There is no age limit for orthodontics. Of course, teenagers have fast metabolism and strong adaptability, and the time required for orthodontics is relatively short. But this does not mean that orthodontics is limited to minors. Adult patients can receive orthodontics as long as the periodontal condition of their teeth allows, and people in their thirties and forties can still correct their teeth. Of course, it is early correction, early end and early benefit.
Myth 2: Correcting teeth is easy to loosen and fall off when they are old.
This is a typical pseudoscience. Confuse orthodontics with periodontal disease. For a simple example, modern orthodontics has a history of 100 years, and when there was no orthodontics hundreds of years ago, the teeth of the elderly fell more severely, which shows that tooth loss has nothing to do with orthodontics. It is undeniable that the degree of tooth looseness will increase due to the stress and alveolar bone remodeling during orthodontic treatment, but when the orthodontic treatment is over and the teeth are no longer stressed, they will recover themselves, and there will be no problem of loosening and falling off in the future.
Myth 3: Orthodontic tooth extraction will affect health. A clinical study in a Swedish university found that tooth extraction can affect people's memory.
Since it is scientific research, we must pay attention to evidence, and one or two individual research reports can't explain the problem at all. Tooth extraction is a very common and mature treatment method, and tooth extraction will not cause any adverse effects on patients' function and health. It should be said that tooth extraction treatment is also a last resort. Oriental facial features are that the nose is not straight enough and the lips protrude forward. In order to achieve a better face shape, many patients (60%) need tooth extraction correction.
Myth 4: Orthodontics takes a long time, costs a lot, and porcelain crown restoration takes a short course of treatment, once and for all.
Teeth are different from machines. Tooth movement itself is a physiological process and the speed of treatment is limited by normal physiology. Adult correction usually takes one and a half to two years. Although the course of treatment of porcelain crowns is short, dentures are false teeth after all, and the later maintenance and long-term prognosis (generally it is recommended to replace porcelain crowns every five to ten years) can not be ignored, nor is it a lifelong restoration advocated by some doctors.
Myth 5: braces are not beautiful, which affects work and life.
With the rapid development of modern orthodontics, there are more and more kinds of braces, which can completely realize invisible orthodontics. And with the development of technology, the indications of invisible correction are getting wider and wider. Some difficult cases that were previously considered taboo can also be corrected invisibly, which has little impact on work and life.