How to clean your orthodontics

How to clean your orthodontics

Clean the hard calendar

The fixed calendar needs a brush with soft bristles, so that its size and shape match with the mouth, allowing access to all places to clean it. The brush should be replaced every three or four months.

  • Use a paste containing fluoride which helps strengthen the teeth, reducing the sensitivity caused by the calendar.
  • Cleaning the teeth on four sections, and cleaning is as follows:
    • Hold the brush towards a 45 degree angle, taking care to touch the surface of the teeth and gums, clean the teeth starting from the outside, then move inward, repeating the process to all sections of the mouth.
    • When cleaning the inner surfaces of the front teeth, the brush must be adjusted vertically to clean it from top to bottom.
    • Pay attention to cleaning the mouth areas that are around and between the orthodontics, to avoid accumulation and plaque plaque.
    • Move the brush through the cleaning of the tongue and the surface of the palate gently and soft, where it will be noted the exit of some blood from the mouth during the disposal of the residues of impurities attached to it, because the gums may be inflamed; to center the calendar, which is normal.
  • Use the orthodontic brush by moving the brush vertically from the top, then repeating the operation from the bottom.
  • Cleaning teeth by thread, through the following:
    • Take about 46 centimeters of teeth, then tie the thread around the middle finger, keeping the rest of the thread between the teeth and the thumb.
    • Move the thread from the top of the teeth near the gums, and between the basic arc with the wire.
    • Move the thread while cleaning each side of the tooth.
    • The doctor’s question about the best types of threads, because of the existence of good yarns and better can clean between the gums and teeth easily and kindness, it is possible to use the strings of water teeth in the absence of the desire to diversify the threads of ordinary teeth.
  • The use of mouthwash, by bringing it with antibacterial medicine and bacteria, as many specialists in the field of dental advice to use, as the cause of alcohol-rich mouthwash and dry smell of the mouth.
  • If you feel some pain after cleaning the calendar, it is recommended to take the home.

Cleaning the mobile orthodontics

To clean the moving calendar, follow these steps:

  • Remove the orthodontic, wash it with water, taking care to remove all impurities.
  • Soak the calendar with water and lye, leave it for five minutes, or make a paste made of sodium bicarbonate and water.
  • Rub the calendar with warm water and a toothbrush with soft bristles, making sure it reaches the cracks; being the most common place where bacteria grow.
  • Wash the calendar again; make sure to clean it from the residue of soap and other materials.
Note: The calendar should be washed daily, and if it is not washed it must be soaked in distilled water.

Clean the teeth straightening device

Use a soft-bristled brush to clean the teeth straightener, as follows:

  • Put a little antibacterial soap on the brush, mix it with cold water, and then gently clean the calendar and Lin.
  • Place the device in a container filled with cold water, making sure to make sure it is cleaned first for fear of the transmission of bacteria to the device.
  • Soak the device in the container overnight for a period of time; to remove the residual residues in it.