Information and advice during the treatment

Dining with fixed orthodontic appliance (brackets)

What can I eat? Rather talk about what you can not eat. If you try to lose some 'weight, the first few weeks with the unit have the right occasion. For the first day you should eat soft foods. Avoid tough meat, hard bread or raw vegetables. After a while 'you will be able to bite as before.

Foods to Avoid

• Candy and chewing gum
• Squeezed hard, hard bread, pizza crust
• Hard biscuits, pop corn
• Do not bite apples, pears, carrots: cut them into slices!
• Do not bite the nails or pens
• use common sense: if you eat something hard, and that could break it, tragliatelo in small pieces, being careful

Initial pain

Recently put the equipment drive, you will have soreness spread to all the teeth for about three to five days Un po 'di relief may come by the rinse with water and salt. Put a teaspoon of salt in a glass of warm water and rinse vigorously for one minute. If pain is greater, you can take an analgesic, such as common fate for a headache. Even the lips or the gums may become sore, usually on the first fifteen days, until that is not accustomed to the surface of the attacks (device). You can use the orthodontic wax that sell in pharmacies and that initially there is provided by the study. There are bars of wax odorless and tasteless, just remove a small piece and make it into a ball, arrotolondola with your fingers and then apply it on the pressing of which causes discomfort or puncture.

Mobility of teeth

E 'una cosa normal to experience some mobility throughout the treatment. Do not worry. The teeth will return "stop" at the end of treatment.

Maintenance and care of

To successfully complete the treatment, it is of utmost importance to carefully follow the directions you are given: the elastic flow as you are told, put the tension ( "whisker") the number of hours required. Do not break it continually leads to better results and can shorten the time to care.

Mobile devices: Frankel II

• Put the unit always, 24 hours a day except for eating
• When you eat it, put it in its plastic box, and every other place (pockets, handkerchiefs etc) inevitably leads to its loss.
• brushed it once a day with a toothbrush and toothpaste, do not use boiling water, once a week use the effervescent tablets to devices that are in pharmacy

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Palatal expander

The expander is an appliance which is fixed on the palate for 4-5 months during the first month must be activated (1 round per day) every day (or as prescribed in the plan of care), after which, it still leaves for another three months and then is removed.
During the first few days can be difficult to eat and talk and can give pain in the mouth and nose and headache, in which case you can take an analgesic.
In about two weeks is a space between the front teeth, it means that everything is going well. Space alone richiuderà later.

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Attacks broken wires and loose bands moved

There alarming if you happen to break something, sometimes happens to everyone. If there is something that stings, try gently (with a pencil by the eraser) to push the wire under the protruding or use orthodontic wax (available at pharmacies), applying a ball on that stings, you can just, arrange an appointment.

The extraoral traction (the "whisker")

Extraoral traction is an important orthodontic device, used to move back molars (distalizzare) correcting the malocclusion of second class and is the only device that can do so without causing side effects on other teeth.

All other orthodontic appliances (including the use of springs or elastic) can not distalizzare the molars as well, and inevitably cause the displacement of other unwanted teeth.

So, extraoral traction is the best and most effective way to do what is necessary for your child / a.

The molar teeth are fitted with 3 roots and are very difficult to move. Moreover, the movement backwards (the distalizzazione) is much more difficult to realize compared to the forward movement (mesializzazione). Before 12 years are not yet born the 2nd molar and then the teeth distalizzare are only a part. After 12 years to become part and two in the literature there are those who say that it becomes impossible to correct the second class because you can not move backwards.

To be able to successfully distalizzare the molars must help your child bring aa extraoral traction for a minimum 13 hours per day (day + 4 hours).

If the tension is carried only at night, not is able to move the teeth and its use becomes almost useless.

If your child has a more than 12 years, then becomes necessary to bring the tension to a minimum of 15 hours (night + 6 hours)

Every effort must be done to be able to get at least the minimum number of hours and must be repeated every day. Sometimes it is necessary to bring the traction at school, at least until the time of lunch.

The lip bumper

is a functional unit for the lower arch and serves to redo the space to align the teeth should always be worn, day and night, even to eat. While creating the space, is moving ever more incisive teeth, if you get to fly against the teeth you have to call for an appointment for inspection.

The facial mask (of Petit)

The facial mask is a device for the correction of orthopedic third classes, must be all night. It will allow a more harmonious development of the maxilla and the mandible will head back in order to correct the prognathism. After about a year of use will be the new X-ray to witness the changes obtained. Among the inconvienenti you can demonstrate there is a reddening of the chin, where the mask press, especially during the hot (sweating). If something comes, ask what other material you can cover the chin of the mask.

bar transpalatale

Transpalatale The bar is a device attached to the orthodontic bands of the molars and a ride through the palate. Need for closure of a bite in all difficult cases of open bite, dental and skeletal. You just provided is very annoying, especially to eat, overcome the first two days everything becomes easier and the initial annoyance disappear. How inconvenient, at times, it could be that the bar transpalatale cause a furrow on the tongue that discomfort. In some cases this gap is desired, because the mechanism of action is based on the thrust of the language that allows the intrusion of the molars and then the closure of the bite.

The plate of Michigan (bite)

The plate of Michigan is specific for the treatment of temporo-mandibular problems (DTM) and has the following characteristics, in accordance with the directions of 'American Academy of Tempomandibular disorders :

• must be of rigid material (such as teeth)
• must be smooth (not to require the teeth to close in a predetermined position)
• must have some peculiar characteristics Gnathology (guide dog and hitting)
• must cover all the occlusal surfaces of teeth

Every other plate, which does not correspond to the above, it should be evaluated carefully because it might not be suitable for temporomandibular mandibular disorders. Have been gradually proposed that a series of plaques very different and have no proven effects safe for DTM. In particular, they are to avoid the bite in soft material and those that do not cover all the teeth.

Remember that to solve the painful symptoms often associated with these conditions, it is important to rely ud a physiotherapist specializing in DTM and follow the advice you are given the rules of conduct to be followed (posture, diet, relaxation techniques, use of drugs).

instructions for patients

-teach the patient how to insert and remove the apparatus for putting into place the unit, using the pressure of the fingers and when it was included on the teeth can be stabilized keen; to remove it easily, must be taken The molar area of the nail of the index and thumb and push down the distal
-tell the patient the time of use of the equipment: the pain may be sufficient miogeno application noturna in intracapsular changes is a continuing need. If the use of growth involves pain, the patient should immediately remove and report the incident to the physician in order to correct;
-sometimes can verifcarsi increased salivation, which, however, is rapidly (within a few hours);
-difficulty in speaking, especially for higher bite, which resolves once the language is suited to the thickness of the resin;
-Laundry: To clean the bite is best to use a nail Bruschino with marseille soap, or disinfectant tablets to be purchased at pharmacies, or drops of amuchina in acqua.Lo toothbrush is not advisable, since it is more expensive and consumed in a short time. To remove limescale, use viakal with water and vinegar. It 'important to dry the bite first storing to prevent bacterial colonization, with unpleasant aftertaste and discoloration.

Follows

The containment (retainer)

• Put restraints every night
• During the day, return it in the box
• The containment brushed once a day with a toothbrush and toothpaste, do not use boiling water, once a week use the effervescent tablets to devices that are found in pharmacies
• After a while 'the containment become "slow", the study calls for an appointment
• Do not try to adjust to only the containment if there is something wrong, please arrange an appointment
• Keep the containment with you to appointments in Studio
• Do not put the restraints in his pocket, in handkerchiefs or other inappropriate places to miss ...

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