Braces and braces?!

Braces and braces?

ima 15 and getting metal braces soon will they hurt how do they get on the teeth will girls not want to be my girlfriend because i have braces thanks

I am an Orthodontist and can probably help you with this question. Placing braces if fairly easy and pai free. The first step is to clean your teeth with a coarse material called pumice. The purpose is to clean your teeth. The next step is to etch and prime your teeth for bonding the brackets.

Bonding brackets is done in 2 ways. Majority of the orthodontist place the brackets directly on your teeth with glue and shine a blue light to make harden the glue. This is called direct bonding. The disadvantage with this technique, it takes long time and is hard to position the brackets just right.

Fewer Orthodontists (including myself) place brackets by Indirect bonding. In this technique the brackets are positioned on your models and transferred to a glue or plastic tray. Once your teeth are cleaned, cleaned, etched and primed, the entire tray is placed in your mouth and the glue is cured with blue light. This cuts down the placement time and also results in more precise bracket placement. Studies also show that Indirect bonding cuts down the total treatment time by 6 - 8 months. The disadvantage with this technique is that it is labor intensive and technique sensitive but once you do it couple of times, it's a piece of cake.

Once your brackets are placed, a very light wire called Nitinol is placed. And then you can walk out. Depending on your case and the kind of wire placed, you will be seen anywhere between 6-10 week intervals. During this appointments, they may place ties back on (if there is still crowding to be relieved) or change into stiffer stainless steel arch wires

The pain should go away in a day or two. Take Tylenol and eat soft foods until pain subsides. Also use the wax on sore spots / brackets. I cannot suggest the colors but right now the most popular color in my office is Halloween colors. Hope that helps