After wearing the appliance, you will find that cleaning is not so easy, and brushing your teeth is more difficult than usual, but you should brush your teeth more carefully. If possible, it is best to add a tooth washer, interdental brush, dental floss, etc. Carry out a more thorough and detailed cleaning. Dentist Li wants to ask patients to have three meals a day, eat some fruit snacks after meals, and then brush their teeth for at least five minutes at a time. Pay attention to brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth is no substitute for gargling. Otherwise, it is easy to accumulate food residues around the brackets, and it is easy to cause decalcification, discoloration and even dental caries around the brackets after a long time. The picture below shows a large area of decalcification of the tooth surface caused by wearing an appliance and not brushing your teeth carefully during drinking carbonated drinks all the year round. I hope you can sound the alarm after reading it!

Second, diet.

After wearing the appliance for the first time and the first few days after each follow-up, I feel that my teeth are sore, swollen, painful and soft, and I can't bite. It is normal to brush my teeth a little and dare not touch them. Eat something soft and semi-liquid these days, such as rotten noodles, rice porridge and egg soup. Everything will be fine in a few days. During the whole treatment period, normal diet will not be affected, but hard food, such as bones and nuts, must be avoided as far as possible, and bones and shells can be removed before eating. Things with kernels, such as plum, jujube, licorice, apricots, etc., can be eaten without kernels. Try to avoid cutting actions, such as eating corn and apples. It is a better way to cut the fruit into small pieces and eat it directly in your mouth. Once the bracket falls off due to careless eating, it is often necessary to reconfigure and cement the bracket first, resulting in extra expenses; Secondly, it affects the course of treatment and causes unnecessary waste of time.

Foods that must be avoided:

1, ice-the ultimate home appliance destroyer!

2. All glutinous rice foods and sticky foods, such as glutinous rice cakes.

3. Never bite crabs, chicken legs, bones, etc. You can tear off the meat to eat.

4. External objects, such as pens, pencils, nails and straws.

5, popcorn shells will be embedded in appliances and cause gum infection.

6. Sugary drinks and carbonated drinks, including phosphoric acid, can cause enamel pollution and tooth decay.

7. Candies, such as fruit candy, mints, bubble gum, rainbow candy, gummy bears, sticky rice candy and so on.

8. Hard bread, big cake, thick pizza crust, hard whole wheat bread, nuts and other snacks.