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Dental anxiety is common in children and adults and can be debilitating when you need dental or orthodontic work done. If your children have anxiety about braces, there are some tips you can use to help calm the stress that comes with orthodontic treatment.
Feeling tightness or slight discomfort while wearing Invisalign is normal, but having an improper fit on your clear aligners will not help you straighten your teeth. If your Invisalign doesn’t fit or feels slightly off, there are some steps you can take to improve the tracking of your Invisalign.
Patients who travel away from their orthodontist for the holidays need to know how to protect their braces from damage and breakage. Dealing with orthodontic problems during the holidays can be annoying, and painful and set patients back on their path of orthodontic treatment. Eating sticky foods, avoiding safety measures, and forgetting to floss can lead you to an extra visit to the orthodontist after the holidays are over. Bailey Orthodontics wants to provide our patients with tips to deal with orthodontic problems during the holidays.
When seeking orthodontic treatment, many orthodontists talk about the risk of having white or discolored spots left on the teeth after the brackets are removed. Orthodontic patients should be concerned about keeping their teeth and braces clean, but there are steps you can take to prevent white spots from braces. Bailey Orthodontics can help you know all about your orthodontic treatment, what procedures you need, and the best practices to protect your teeth.
When you get braces at an orthodontist it often is accompanied by small elastics that are wrapped around the metal in your mouth and used to fix unaligned teeth. While these bands can be customized with colors, they can be hard to deal with and painful when first tightened. What are these elastics for and what do they accomplish in the orthodontic process? Bailey Orthodontics wants our patients to understand how their treatment helps fix issues with their teeth and how we work to improve their smiles.
After you have finished with braces, your orthodontist will give you a retainer to help keep the work of moving your teeth, stay intact. Retainers help maintain your smile and stop your teeth from adjusting. Bailey Orthodontics is here to help you learn more about...
