Eating the same few braces-friendly meals, week after week, gets boring, really fast. 'The Braces Cookbook' by Pamela Waterman offers 50 great comfort food recipes perfect for braces-wearers and their families!
This week, we’re excited to share the fun and interactive ‘The Braces Journal’ by Dan Price. This is not only a book, it's actually an interactive journal with lots of advice and tips about living with braces, and which allows you to track your orthodontic experience!
There are few pieces of equipment more important to the safety of athletes who wear braces than a sports mouth guard.
Thumb sucking is a normal and healthy behaviour in very small children, but it can cause malocclusion (teeth misalignment) issues once the permanent teeth begin to erupt, so the habit should be broken before that point.
Many people consider braces and orthodontics to be mainly for children and teens. These days, however, more and more adults are getting braces, and they have their own set of unique challenges to go with their orthodontic treatment.
Approximately every 4 - 6 weeks during your orthodontic treatment, you will attend an adjustment appointment at our office to tighten and adjust your braces. This is a very important part of your treatment and should not be put off.
Tongue thrusting is an orofacial muscular imbalance in which the tongue protrudes through the anterior incisors during speech, swallowing, and even when the tongue is at rest. It can cause serious orthodontic problems if unaddressed.
Since you’re in it for the long haul with your braces, you may as well add your own unique touch with a little colour!
Though many people wear braces, they often don't really understands the ins and outs of how they work.
When children are still young and their teeth, jaws, and mouths are still growing and developing, there is an opportunity for an orthodontist to identify issues that may become more serious problems later on, and begin to treat them straight away. This type of treatment is called Phase I (or early interventive) treatment.
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