To feel the most confident while wearing your ceramic braces you need to take really good care of the braces and your teeth because ceramic braces can unfortunately stain easily.
Ceramic braces stain teeth.
Ceramic braces take about a year and a half to three years to straighten teeth in comparison to less than a year up to three years for metal braces.
Avoid staining your teeth and or braces.
Fortunately it s fairly simple to minimize or remove unattractive staining and keep the braces less noticeable.
The ceramic brackets themselves resist picking up color from food or drink but the bonding glue and the rubber bands that connect the braces will turn color if you re not careful.
This will draw the wrong sort of attention to your mouth.
Not only does it discolor and stain your teeth the cigarette smoke also ruins the color of your ceramic braces.
The elastic ligatures used to hold the archwires attached to the brackets are especially prone to staining.
Nicotine also gives the ligatures a yellow color which is very unattractive.
The difference is that the material used for the brackets is a clear or tooth colored ceramic.
If you drink colored juices or sodas use a straw.
Ceramic appliances use essentially the same components as metal braces and achieve much the same results.
Ceramic braces aren t as durable so as your.
This means the braces blend in with the teeth and are much less obvious from a distance.