WANT TO KNOW HOW WE GET BRACES OFF?
Did you ever wonder how we get the braces off? Well, if you have the right instruments and know what you are doing, it's easy. Your dad's pliers in the garage is not the right answer.
First we place a large diameter chain around the feet of the patient, lift the kid up until their head is off the floor about three feet and then slowly lower them into boiling nitric acid. This slowly eats away the head and leaves a perfectly clean and shiny set of braces. Hey.....what? Not buying that one?
Well, how about we use a special set of pliers to squeeze the curve on the back of the braces and that breaks the bond to the plastic adhesive. No, we don't pull them off. The plastic bonding material is simply fractured gently off the back of each bracket and all the brackets come off with the wire if the wire is left in place when we gently squeeze the bracket. It's physics, inclined planes, levers, fulcrums... weggie orthodontics.
Each bracket is 'popped' off clean, which leaves a layer of the bonding plastic on the tooth. We then use a special set of pliers to remove the plastic that is bonded to the teeth or a high speed handpiece to smooth the plastic off the teeth and polish the enamel where the plastic was removed.
And, we sometimes finish up with a polishing disk to smooth the enamel bright and shiny.
It's all very easy, takes about fifteen minutes and leaves perfectly white and shiny teeth where braces had been only minutes before. Yes, we give you your braces to take home with you. We do not recycle anything in our practice.
It is essential the gum tissue be clean and healthy before we will remove braces. Swollen and infected gum tissue is going to bleed and we are not into being bled upon. So, if you are getting your braces off, make sure the tissue is perfectly healthy. Use your Water-Pik.
After you get your braces off, you might want to see your dentist in the next month for a full cleaning. Also look into getting your teeth whitened. We recommend Crest products like White-Strips or Night Effects.
