The biggest benefit of maintaining good oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment is that it protects your teeth and maximizes the effectiveness of your orthodontic treatment! If you do not maintain good oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment, then your gums will start to bleed, hyperplasia, and slowly develop into periodontitis and loose teeth! So during the orthodontic period, you must pay attention to maintain good oral hygiene! This is very important! 1, brush your teeth with care! After eating something to rinse your mouth, morning and evening to brush your teeth. Always remember: brush the braces clean! Brush your braces clean! Brush your braces clean! The teeth on the food residue and so clean! Regardless of the type of orthodontic treatment, braces will leave soft scale and food residue. Traditional orthodontics to pay extra attention to the corners of the brackets; invisible orthodontics, to carefully flush the brackets inside. 2, prepare all the tools, brush teeth not tired. Simply put, mouthwash + toothpaste + toothbrush + gadgets. 3, divided into orthodontic special toothbrush and ordinary toothbrush, invisible orthodontics can use ordinary toothbrush. 4, gap brush Look at the picture, is not similar to the mini version of the bottle brush, for people with large gaps in the teeth, as well as wire orthodontic partners. I-type commonly used to clean the gap between the front teeth, L-type commonly used to clean the gap between the back teeth. (Because of the curvature, it is easier to reach the adjoining surfaces of the posterior teeth with the aligners.) Orthodontic, the gap brush is usually not used to brush the gap, but to brush the brackets, do not foolishly poke the gap brush to the gap between the two teeth Mong, will hurt the teeth. 5, don’t blindly brush your teeth, the strength of the method is important! Wire orthodontics Our goal is not 3 minutes but all sides. As an aid to cleaning the gap brush and dental floss, use must be gently rotating clean, up and down slowly rubbing, do not force too fierce. 6, invisible braces compared to wire orthodontics in care is much simpler, with invisible braces to develop a good habit of brushing brackets, brushing teeth, it is best to brush teeth 3 minutes, brush brackets 5 minutes, not brackets difficult to brush, just brush up to be more serious. Don’t soak and brush the braces and gel with too hot water to avoid deformation of the material. In addition, every time you brush your teeth, you need to use the correct method to remove the braces, otherwise it will also hurt the material.