With more and more people getting orthodontic treatment, many parents and patients are concerned that orthodontic treatment will cause pain and discomfort to their children. Pain is an unpleasant sensation that makes patients fear orthodontic treatment and even give up on orthodontic treatment. Here is a brief discussion of the pain problem of orthodontic treatment and its symptomatic measures, hoping to help patients and parents who need orthodontic treatment. Most patients experience varying degrees of pain during orthodontic treatment, especially during tooth separation, early treatment and a few days after the replacement of the archwire. After the fixed aligners are placed, the pain is usually most pronounced when the archwires are first placed in alignment. Pain occurs within a few hours to day 3 after the archwires are ligated in most patients, accounting for about 85% of patients, and in a few patients it can last until day 8 to 10. In order to minimize pain during orthodontic treatment, patients and parents should pay attention to the following points: 1. When wearing aligners for the first time teeth will have mild pain, soreness and other uncomfortable feelings, pain is mostly delayed pain: that is, it appears a few hours after the force is applied. Peak in 1-3 days, 4-5 days began to reduce, a week later the pain basically disappeared, mostly soreness and swelling pain or feel the teeth “soft”, afraid to bite hard objects, this is a normal phenomenon, need a period of adaptation process. 2, teeth in discomfort, do not chew too hard food, so as not to aggravate the pain, but the right amount of chewing can shorten the period of discomfort; 3, the choice of high-performance braces, patients can choose invisible braces or self-locking brackets braces, so as to avoid or reduce the pain caused by the orthodontic arch wire and brackets on the mucosa stimulation. 4, it is recommended to use a special toothbrush for orthodontics and use the correct method for brushing to reduce the accumulation of acids, thus reducing the discomfort when the teeth move. 5, orthodontic treatment during more nutritious and easy to chew and digest food, avoid eating too hard and sticky food, so as not to damage the orthodontic appendages and produce oral mucosa damage and friction generated by ulcers. 6, the force of moving teeth is not very large, most of the orthodontic discomfort are within the tolerable range, if there is abnormal pain should be timely follow-up, symptomatic treatment. 7, for the problem of tooth extraction pain. At present, you can choose high performance imported anesthetics, which can completely achieve painless extraction, which only needs to reduce the psychological fear. 8, a few adult patients, the pain response is heavy, you can take appropriate painkillers during this period. As long as the patient and parents choose the correct orthodontic treatment plan and suitable braces, and orthodontic professionals work together, orthodontic teeth can be achieved both smoothly and perfectly, and will not produce too much pain.