Normal sensations during the first days
- After braces are placed, you may feel pressure on your teeth.
- The discomfort may increase on the second day, especially when eating hard foods.
- For 3 to 7 days, it is best to avoid hard and rigid food.
If the braces rub the soft tissues
- Use orthodontic wax: warm a small piece in your hands and place it over the bracket that is irritating the tissue.
- If a sore appears, the leaflet suggests using 0.05% chlorhexidine and Kamistad gel 3 times a day until healing.
- For significant discomfort, medication should be used only with your doctor’s approval.
What should be avoided
- Hard foods such as nuts, chips, croutons, caramel, brittle, and similar products.
- Sticky foods such as chewing gum, nougat, caramel, and chewy candy.
- Biting into food with the front teeth, including fruit, sandwiches, chocolate, and similar items.
- Staining products if you wear ceramic braces.
- Eat food in small pieces.
Hygiene after every meal
- An orthodontic, ultrasonic, or electric toothbrush.
- Toothpaste.
- Interdental brushes of different sizes.
- Dental floss or superfloss.
- Mouthwash.
- An oral irrigator.
- If needed, plaque-disclosing tablets or solutions.
When to contact the clinic
- A bracket has come off.
- The wire is broken or displaced.
- There is acute pain in one of the teeth.
- A sore on the mucosa does not heal for a long time.
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