How to brush your teeth braces

How to brush your teeth braces
 One of the most common methods for correcting the bite and alignment of the dentition is currently the use of orthodontic brackets. After the establishment of braces from its owner required compliance with certain rules of eating, personal hygiene, including brushing your teeth, because made of metal arc and staples significantly impede access to the teeth and adjacent surfaces.
 Experts recommend brushing your teeth in the presence of the brackets were significantly more likely than those without them, namely after every meal and always at night. This should increase session time and cleaning. When choosing a toothpaste should pay attention to the means that are rich in fluorine, which will help strengthen the protection of enamel from caries.

To perform this procedure, you need a toothbrush, dental floss and brushes, a wide range of which is represented in the pharmacy network. The toothbrush should be as accurate as possible follow the contours of the bracket system, which is suitable for single-beam brush with a V- shaped recess. It will allow to clean teeth, braces and surfaces adjacent to them. For treatment between the teeth and the spaces located below the arc required tooth brushes. To clean the lateral surface of the teeth is better to use thread "superflos", holding it between them.

Procedure should start with cleaning the upper jaw, after which you must go to the bottom. In this first horizontal brush strokes (the angle between the brush and the gum is 45 degrees) to clean the outer and inner surface of the teeth and gingival sulcus areas of the teeth. The time allowed for each tooth cleaning should not be less than 10 seconds. Make sure that you have processed all the teeth up to the most extreme.

In the second stage cleaning interdental spaces using tooth brushes. At the final third stage uses a special dental floss with constant updating of its sites for various teeth cleaning. After the procedure, it is recommended to rinse your mouth with warm boiled water with the use of mouthwash that contains fluoride supplements.

If you must eat out, do not forget to bring a designated case all the necessary accessories required for cleaning teeth in braces.

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