AH! Im GETTING BRACES!?!


Question: AH! Im GETTING BRACES!!?
I just went to the orthodontist and he said that I am going to need top and bottom braces for 1/2 - 2 years!
any advice and tell me all about the stages of braces and EVERYTHING I WOULD NEED TO KNOW!
thanks in advance!
-Julia!xWww@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
okay the main things you need to know are cleaning, color, applying the braces, tightening, types of braces, and eating!.

cleaning: a BIG pain in the booty!.you have to brush with a soft brush carefully in a circular motion for about 4 minutes, every time you eat, then you have to floss!. If you use regular floss, you have to use a floss threader to get the floss in between the wire and tooth, which can take up to 10 minutes the first time you do it!. I recommend getting a waterpik because it makes flossing a lot easier!. If you don't do all this everyday, you will get discolored teeth, which is really gross!.

color: almost every kids favorite part!. they put little rubber bands on the brackets, and you can pick any color you want, that they have anyway!. you get them changed every time you get your braces tightened(about every month to 2 months!.)

tightening: like i said, you get your braces tightened usually every 8 to 10 weeks!. it hurts, but not for long!. just take your regular headache medicine!.

applying the braces: it basically takes about an hour and a half to two hours!. sometimes they take the brackets one by one and put them on your teeth, but sometimes they put them on a clear mold thing and put all the brackets on at one time!. then they dry it with a blue ceramic light, then they put the wire through the brackets, apply the colored bands, and the with a few minor tweaks your done!.

types of braces: there are basically 5 types of braces, which are invisalign, ceramic(clear), damon, traditional, and lingual!.
Invisalign is a clear mold of your teeth that works the exact same as braces, but takes a little longer!. Ceramic is braces, but the rubber bands on the brackets i told you about earlier, they are clear!. Damon is a frictionless type of braces that is smaller and you do not have a color option!. I tis supposed to reduce pain and treatment time needed to correct teeth!. Traditional, the most common type, is the kind you mostly see on all your friends because it is the cheapest and most common type!. And finally Lingual is the kind of braces that go behind the teeth and are completely invisible, but might impair your speech at first!.

eating with braces: with braces it is important that you don't eat sugary, crunchy, or chewy foods because they can break or damage the braces!. you can eat gum, but only the sugarless kind!.

Good luck and don't forget to take you regular headache medicine to ease the pain!. Hope I helped!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I have braces right now i have to wait 2 years!. First they take molds of your mouth with this plastic stuff witch gets stuck in your teeth and you have to pick out!. Then you go back and they have a pair of braces waiting to be put in!. They don't hurt getting them on but after they will so when you just get them put on take an advil or something!. You will get them changed every 8 weeks and they will hurt then too but not like when you first got them!. Then you might get spacers (rubber bands in between your teeth) then after that metal bands and then finally what i have an arch!. it is a metal wire that goes across the top of our mouth and conects to the metal bands around your teeth!. The cool part is that you to pick these elastic band to put on!.(those are the colorful things on the brackets) My first time i got black and pink!. But the black makes you sorta look like you have food in your teeth! :) Hope it helps!!!!

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A couple of days after you have braces, it will hurt so make sure you eat alot of soft foods!.Brush every time after you eat!. Make sure you dont eat popcorn or ice!. Floss ALOT!. And after they take off the braces make sure you wear your retainers because the teeth will go back to what they were before you had braces!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Brush after every meal, use fluoride gel!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!. the pain stops after 3 days!.!.!.!.!.!.!.eat what the orthodontist tells you to eat!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

well its not that bad it doesn't hurt at all, but only a little pain is in the first week and when they tighten them but u dont have to worry everything will be okWww@Answer-Health@Com

First U will start to have to go to the dentist a lot more!. U will have to get spacers which is like tiny blue rubber bands that goes between your teeth to space them out!. It will make your teeth sore and U could only eat soft things and even that will be very painful!. But bananas, soft-serve ice-cream, oatmeal, and macaroni and cheese and Ramen noodles and little shrimps are good things to eat!. After about 2-4 days (depending on your teeth) U will have to go back to the detist and get them removed!. Your teeth will still be sore for about 2 or 3 more days though!. But putting a piece of wax on your gum above the tooth that hurts the most will help it not hurt as much while U have the spacers or toothaches after they are gone!. Then after a lot more weeks of stuff being put into your mouth (You will be bronze bands around your back teeth and they'll put dental glue on it) and more!. One day you'll have to get this thing put on your face and you'll have to put your tongue through a pointy thing!. I remember it hurted the back of my tongue and it went dry making it feel really bad!. Then when they are put in after hours of dried-tongue torture, it'll feel like the braces are pushing up against your upper lip or gums and U might suck them a lot or play around with youir tongue in your mouth as if U had lost a tooth!. Your dentist will give U a mini toothbrush, a mini tube of toothpaste, and a mini brush!. The mini brush is used to get goop out of your teeth because if u eat and don't brush your teeth, there WILL be build-up!. U use the brush by pushing it up under the brace and going up and down and then rinsing the brush off because the plaque goops stuff WILL get on it and your teeth should be fine again!. Also, floss!. U will have to brush and floss more often too!. You will have to go to the dentist about once every 2 weeks and get your chain replaced and U can get them in different colors from yellow to pink to green to blue to silver!. The first couple of times, it'll hurt to get the chain out in and sometimes taken out and you'll get used to it after about 4 times and it won't hurt!. (But before that your teeth will be sore again!. Once again, eat marshamallow, shrimp, noodles, etc!.) You will also have to wear rubberbands in your mouth but they do not go between your teeth or anything like spacers!. They are noticeable when U talk because U have to put them in the front of your mouth and they'll put hooks on some of your braces and they will teach you how to put them in!. Also, don't chew gum, ice, or eat popcorn!. I have braces!. Just got them late last year!. Im not trying to scare u but I was being honest!. If U have anymore questions just via e-mail me!.

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