Whether you are an adult or a child undergoing orthodontic treatment, keeping up a good dental hygiene routine with braces is crucial to attaining the perfect smile you deserve. By ensuring that you clean your teeth thoroughly, you can help prevent cavities from occurring during your orthodontic treatment, which could ultimately ruin the final appearance of your newly straight teeth. Here we summarise the benefits to your overall oral health if you keep your braces clean.
Prevents Cavities
When you have braces, it is easier for bits of food to become lodged in your teeth. If you are not careful and do not take the right precautions, these leftover pieces of food can result cause cavities and can led to additional dental treatment to fix.
Prevents Staining
As well as causing cavities, food that gets stuck in your braces that isn’t cleaned away properly can cause staining to your teeth. Make sure you brush your teeth after every meal to keep those teeth pearly white and sparkling bright!
Prevents Bad Breath
When you leave food out for too long, you notice how it starts to smell bad right? Well just imagine that food being caught in your braces! Leaving food in between your braces for too long can have the same effect on your mouth. By failing to keep your braces tidy and clean can result in bad breath, which can easily be prevented by implementing proper cleaning techniques.
Avoids Food Debris
No-one wants to flaunt their smile only to realise they have an unsightly piece of food stuck in between their teeth. If you make sure you clean your teeth, you can be comfortable in the knowledge that you can show off your teeth, without showing off what you had for your dinner.
Improves Oral Health
Good oral health is paramount to preventing problems such as gum disease and can reduce chances of being diagnosed with lifestyle related diseases later in life. And by keeping up a throughout and consistent cleaning routing, you are taking a step in the right direction to improve your oral health.
Minimizes Treatment Time
If you stick to a regular cleaning routine and keep your braces clean, they will be better able to do their job and straighten out your teeth effectively. This means that you could have the opportunity to show off a brace-free smile sooner than you may have expected!