After wearing steel braces, you can use regular soft bristle toothbrush, orthodontic toothbrush, gap brush, flosser and other tools to clean your teeth, and it is best to develop the habit of brushing your teeth in time after meals.
1. Conventional soft bristle toothbrush: after wearing steel braces, you can generally use regular soft bristle toothbrush for brushing and cleaning, pay attention to each brushing time of not less than 3 minutes, not less than twice a day, it is best to brush your teeth after eating in a timely manner, to prevent food debris and soft dirt and other residues in the braces caused by dental caries problems.
2. Orthodontic toothbrush: due to many small parts attached to the teeth after wearing braces, conventional toothbrushes may not be able to efficiently and thoroughly clean up foreign objects, you can choose to use a specialized orthodontic toothbrush, so that brushing the teeth and the surface of the teeth more closely, thereby improving the cleaning efficiency.
3. Gap Brush: After wearing steel braces, due to the teeth lip side of the bonded brackets and other components, but also need to ligate a main archwire, thus increasing the difficulty of cleaning, you can in the routine after brushing, and then with the use of gap brushing to clean the individual narrow position, to prevent food retention caused by tooth decay.
4. Dental flosser: Dental flosser mainly applies the principle of pulsed water jet impact and vibration to clean the food debris and other foreign objects on the adjacent surfaces of the teeth or in the gaps, therefore, you can consider using dental flosser for cleaning after wearing steel braces, which is convenient and quick.