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Self Care Tips

How to Brush and Floss Your Teeth with Braces Before brushing your teeth at night, floss carefully along and under the gum lines. Flossing dislodges food deposits that can breed bacteria and decay. With braces, there’s more territory to floss, but a reusable floss threader can make it easier to pull floss underneath your arch wire. Before brushing, select a toothbrush with soft bristles. Toothbrushes designed for braces are contoured with a channel cut out so the bristles in the center are shorter, allowing you to brush your teeth and braces simultaneously. Electric toothbrushes also have an orthodontic head. Brushing

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Orthodontics

Picking the Perfect Colour Braces

What Braces Colours Are Available Getting a straight smile is already a process, especially when braces are involved. Eager to see the results while keeping your smile appealing could be a journey, however, there are many ways to keep that aesthetic smile of yours glowing. One of the best ways to do that is by customising the colour of your braces whilst waiting for the result of your orthodontic work What is the Best Colour for Your Braces What Actually are Coloured Braces? Functional and stylish, colour braces are normally referring to the coloured rubber bands that are typically wrapped

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Orthodontics

Celebrities who got Braces | Before & After

Hollywood smile, veneers, braces, teeth whitening- sometimes it’s hard to keep track of the latest Hollywood trend. It can feel like that perfect smile that graces our Instagram reels seems out of reach. But celebrities are not born with the perfect Hollywood smile and a beautiful, white and straight set of gnashers is often courtesy of a specialist orthodontist. These unknown heroes don’t wear capes- just scrubs. From rocking less-visible ceramic see-thorough braces to lingual braces, the perfect Hollywood smile as sported by red carpet royalty Tom Cruise, Kendall Jenner, and indeed Justin Bieber is just an orthodontic treatment away.

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Orthodontics

5 Benefits of Expanders worth smiling about.

What is an Orthodontic expander? An orthodontic expander is an appliance that corrects your teeth and upper arch. Orthodontic expanders come either as fixed or removable appliances. The fixed option is called Rapid maxillary expander or RME and uses two bands cemented to your upper arch and last upper molars that are connected by a metal screw. The screw is turned regularly to expand and widen the appliance, that over time corrects your teeth alignment and expands the upper jaw. What are the benefits of Expanders? Expanders can help with Improved Sleep, Nasal Airflow, Airway Obstruction Alleviation, Crossbite Correction, and

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Invisible Aligners

How to Straighten Teeth With or Without Braces

You want a beautiful smile, but the idea of wearing braces or going to treatment as an adult for 18 months or more isn’t appealing, is it. According to studies, approximately 70% of the population needs orthodontic treatment. If debating between braces and Clear Aligners, you’re probably wondering: Which is more effective? Which is the most cost-effective? However, in the end, you want to choose the orthodontics treatment that will achieve the best results. There are several choices available to adults in Sydney if they are looking for an alternative to braces or want to look at the different types

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Kids

Braces for Kids: An Orthodontists Guide | FOX Orthodontics

What is the best age to get braces? Teeth can have a significant impact on self-esteem, which is why many parents choose to get braces for their child. However, parents often have questions about the process, the cost, and at which age a child should have braces. Most orthodontists advise that a child should get braces between the age of 9 and 15. The child’s body is still growing, as is their head and mouth. It means that the teeth are more conducive to aligning, and the treatment time is shorter. Still, patients with orthodontic problems may benefit from braces

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