How To Handle Potential Problems With Braces
During your orthodontic treatment plan, you’ll make regular visits to your dentist in West Edmonton. At those appointments, your dentist will examine and clean your teeth, track your progress, adjust your braces as required, make any necessary repairs and answer your questions. Occasionally, something might go wrong with your braces between your appointments. Your dentist will do everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen, but braces are built of several components and your mouth is full of moving parts. Sometimes things happen that we don’t expect. Here’s a brief explanation of three issues that our patients sometimes experience between appointments, and what you should do if any of them happens to you. If an archwire breaks The archwires that run between the brackets on your teeth, and that pass through o-rings that hold them into place, help your teeth move by exerting pressure in concert with those brackets. Archwires come in different shapes — round, square and eve...