Help with braces for the teeth? its my first time.??
Question: Are there different kind of braces? If, so what are the more and least painful ones? Do you think black is a great color to wear? What kind of food shouldn't I eat? Do braces really hurt more tha retainers?
Answers:
Talk to your orthodontist, he/she will provide a better explanation than we can. Back in the day, I had the standard metal braces, and I'd switch colors (little bands over the brackets) every so often. They tell you not to chew gum, eat candy, blah blah... I did all of that =/
And yes, braces will hurt for the first week after you get them on.
Ice cubes can lessen the pain a great deal. Good luck
I can't comment on retainers, because I've only ever had braces. There are several different types of braces: outside the teeth (the normal ones), inside the teeth (usually for older people who don't want to look like teenagers, but they work a bit slower), and self-tightening, to name a few.
Braces hurt when they've just gone on (like a dull ache for a week, but you can take aspirin for it), and when they get tightened (for up to 3 days). In between that, they don't hurt at all. Mine are self-tightening, which means that I don't have to go through the pain of having them tightened every 3 weeks. And because the self-tightening is activated by the heat in my mouth, I was able to get rid of the pain in the first week by drinking ice water through my teeth. If you want this sort, they're called Damon brackets - but they're a bit more expensive than the other sort.
Foods you shouldn't eat are anything very hard or sticky. In the beginning, you won't be able to even if you wanted to: it will be sore if you bite anything, and you'll have to cut your food into bite-sized pieces. I lived on mashed potato, soup and yoghurt for the first 3 days. After that, you might be able to eat hard and sticky things, but it might still be uncomfortable. If you want to eat hard things, break them into pieces, otherwise you could break off the brackets on your teeth when you bite. I don't recommend sticky things, as it is enough trouble cleaning your teeth as it is, and you don't want to have to try and get rid of gum or toffee.
Don't worry. If the pain was really so terrible, orthodontists wouldn't be able to make us wear them. It gets better every day, people stop noticing you have braces after 2 weeks, and you'll come out with a beautiful smile at the end.
Answers:
Talk to your orthodontist, he/she will provide a better explanation than we can. Back in the day, I had the standard metal braces, and I'd switch colors (little bands over the brackets) every so often. They tell you not to chew gum, eat candy, blah blah... I did all of that =/
And yes, braces will hurt for the first week after you get them on.
Ice cubes can lessen the pain a great deal. Good luck
I can't comment on retainers, because I've only ever had braces. There are several different types of braces: outside the teeth (the normal ones), inside the teeth (usually for older people who don't want to look like teenagers, but they work a bit slower), and self-tightening, to name a few.
Braces hurt when they've just gone on (like a dull ache for a week, but you can take aspirin for it), and when they get tightened (for up to 3 days). In between that, they don't hurt at all. Mine are self-tightening, which means that I don't have to go through the pain of having them tightened every 3 weeks. And because the self-tightening is activated by the heat in my mouth, I was able to get rid of the pain in the first week by drinking ice water through my teeth. If you want this sort, they're called Damon brackets - but they're a bit more expensive than the other sort.
Foods you shouldn't eat are anything very hard or sticky. In the beginning, you won't be able to even if you wanted to: it will be sore if you bite anything, and you'll have to cut your food into bite-sized pieces. I lived on mashed potato, soup and yoghurt for the first 3 days. After that, you might be able to eat hard and sticky things, but it might still be uncomfortable. If you want to eat hard things, break them into pieces, otherwise you could break off the brackets on your teeth when you bite. I don't recommend sticky things, as it is enough trouble cleaning your teeth as it is, and you don't want to have to try and get rid of gum or toffee.
Don't worry. If the pain was really so terrible, orthodontists wouldn't be able to make us wear them. It gets better every day, people stop noticing you have braces after 2 weeks, and you'll come out with a beautiful smile at the end.
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