Dental braces are appliances which are used to align or straighten the teeth and guide the teeth to the corrected position.
Braces aid to correct irregular teeth positioning, jaw correction, improvement in chewing and smile aesthetics.
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF BRACES AVAILABLE?
In Fixed Braces, there are 4 types of braces available :
- Conventional Metal Braces
- Metal Self Ligating
- Conventional Ceramic braces
- Ceramic Self Ligating
Are Metal or Ceramic braces the best?
Both metal and ceramic braces are good, the main difference between them is the esthetic appearance.
Ceramic is least noticing than metal, if the look doesn’t matter even metal braces works best.
What is the difference between Conventional and Self-Ligating braces?
Whether it is metal or ceramic, self-ligating has some advantage over the conventional one:
- Self-ligating braces are easy to maintain, as they do not have any modules (rubber band) around the brackets.
- Hygiene at the best with the Self-ligating one
- Self-ligating is faster than Conventional ones (you get to save 3 to 4 months)
- Check up can be done once in two or three months, but with Conventional ones once in every month is mandatory.
- Self-ligating has mild expansion in movement.
Is It difficult to maintain Conventional Metal /Ceramic Braces?
Never, when it comes to the conventional braces you just need to take some extra time to maintain the brackets, as possibility of food getting in between the brackets and on the modules are quite often.
But At Peach Dental we make sure to provide our Patients with Ortho kit, which contains Ortho Brush, Ortho mouthwash, Interdental brush, Ortho wax, Gel for ulcers.
We make sure to cover you for the next one- or one-half year and maintain the hygiene at the best so that we ACHIEVE THE BEST OF RESULTS.
For more details, check out www.peachdentalclinic.com
Phone number- +91 7785 96 7785
Blog by Dr Reshma Sivadas