Just curious, how often do you clean your hawley retainers? Do you clean them every day? Every week? I use Retainer Brite, but I'm not sure how often is too often...
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How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
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Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
Daily; the Retainer Brite cleaners or efferdent (sp) denture cleaning tablets.
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Night time elastics with invisalign retainers; still...
Double jaw surgery was 6/18/15...
Orthodontics never really ends...
I'm emphatically against extraction orthodontics!
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Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
I clean them daily. I brush with water once to get off whatever residue left on them over the night, and then brush them with castile soap to clean them when I take them off every morning. I soak them in retainer brite cleaning tablets once a week.
Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
You need to clean them every single day.
I'm the owner/admin of this site. Had ceramic uppers, metal lowers ~3 years in my early 40's. Now in Hawley retainers at night!
Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
I do the same as Assertives. My ortho advised to use retainerbrite only once per week.
Sectional brace with Damon clear brackets fitted to front 6 upper teeth 3 January 2012
Brackets added to premolars 2 April 2012
Estimated treatment time originally 6-9 months. Brace removed on 22 July 2013 after 18 months and 19 days
Now enjoying bonded upper retainer plus part time essix/hawley( I have both)
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Brackets added to premolars 2 April 2012
Estimated treatment time originally 6-9 months. Brace removed on 22 July 2013 after 18 months and 19 days
Now enjoying bonded upper retainer plus part time essix/hawley( I have both)
Click here for my story http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtop ... =9&t=42194
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Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
I soak mine in Denta Soak every single day.
Re: How often do you clean your hawley retainers?
You should be cleaning and disinfecting your retainers every single day.
I'm the owner/admin of this site. Had ceramic uppers, metal lowers ~3 years in my early 40's. Now in Hawley retainers at night!