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I have ceramic uppers and lowers, and my first ligatures were clear but I will also eat curry or pasta atleast once or twice a week. After the first week, my clear ligatures went from invisible to florescent yellow...it stained so bright that my teeth looked yellow from having those ligatures on. So...

I just picked up some prevident from the pharmacy but what my dentist told me and the box directions were differing so I was just wondering, does everybody else just brush with it like a normal toothpaste and just not rinse with water for 30 minutes? Thank you~

Thank you for the advice about using it on the low setting! I've been using my waterpik with the high pressure pick on a high setting for the last 2 weeks now, and I was freaking out yesterday because i noticed when i was flossing that even in that short span my gums were receding and not bouncing b...

spacers are the worst? that's a relief to hear. I just got spacers yesterday, putting them in didn't hurt any more than flossing. Today I realized my teeth are a bit sore when I tried to bite something so I'll probably have to eat soft food until I get these out but that's hardly anything to worry a...

so when you went from a thinner to heavy archwire and the difference become almost negligible? eek...thank you for letting me know fins. now my fiance is really going to throw a fit..haha...but unfortunately i'm starting to run out of choices though, visited 3 separate orthodontists and even though ...

I just spoke to the orthodontist, and he advised me that their office doesn't use tooth colored archwires because not only does the teflon coating scratch off and make it harder for the teeth to move but the tooth colored wires tend to be thinner than the traditional wires and thus has less strength...

Thank you very much for all of your advices. I'm not sure if it was a white tooth colored one, she showed me one for a second, and it looked clear just like a fishing line but it was most likely the tooth colored one everyone is mentioning since the American Association of Orthodontics only mentions...

Does anyone know where I can order clear archwires? I tried google-ing it but haven't been able to find anything. I'm trying to decide between invisalign and the clear ceramic braces and I know one orthodontist who offers the ceramic braces with clear archwires and a well known orthodontist who only...