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How To Care Better For Your Teeth

August 16, 2023 by Wendy S

Teeth can be something of a nightmare even at the best of times. No matter who you are or what your history is like, you probably find that you often struggle to look after your teeth as well as you know you should. That is something that most of us experience, and it’s just the kind of thing that you need to try and keep in mind if you are going to be able to have good dental health in the future. With that in mind, here are some of the main things to consider when it comes to caring for your teeth more effectively.

Learn A Proper Brushing Technique

It might be worth checking your brushing technique, because many of us learn a technique at one point that turns out not to be quite as good as it could be, and that can be a real problem in the long run. You might not actually be cleaning your teeth as well as you would hope, which means that you are not really making a difference to them at all in the long run. So make sure that you are learning a proper brushing technique and that you do all you can to make use of it in the future. It will make a difference.

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Find A Good Dentist

Of course, having access to a good dentist is one of those things that can really help as well, and which you are going to need to make sure you are thinking about if you want to look after your teeth as well as you would hope to. When you have a good dentist on your side, it means that you are going to find it much easier to care for your teeth, and that you’ll have all the advice and guidance you could possibly need as well. This is of course a hugely important thing to consider here.

Get Them Straightened

Having straight teeth is not just a matter of aesthetics, although that is often an important part of this too. It’s also a fact that straight teeth are going to be considerably more likely to be healthy, because when they are misaligned that leads to all sorts of problems, including an increased likelihood of them falling out. This is therefore something that you will really want to keep an eye on, and get some clear retainers if it becomes obvious you might need them.

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Find Your Motivation

If you are generally struggling to actually be motivated to look after your teeth, then you might want to think about what your motivation is. You might think about some of the results of not doing so – including even heart problems from gum disease as well as unsightly mouths – or simply think about how great you can look with a good smile. In either case, it’s something that you will want to make sure you are thinking about in some way or another.

Filed Under: body mind spirit, Life Tagged With: care, health, teeth

Orthodontics – The 2nd journey begins #LaurenGoFar #LaurenOrtho

March 19, 2019 by Wendy S

Our children were destined to need braces. Both Craig and I had braces when we were teenagers.

In April 2018, Rachel started her orthodontics journey. The estimated time for her treatment was one year. She had a bit of crowding that needed to be fixed and a little bit of an overbite. Dr. Bozek put on Rachel’s braces on April 18th and the current estimation is May 2019 to have them removed. Seems like just yesterday she was losing her first tooth!

Lauren was told that she needed to wait a year; she had to lose the rest of her baby teeth. In November, Lauren lost her last tooth. We called Dr. Bozek and set up an appointment. 

March 11th, the day after Lauren’s 12th birthday, we met with Dr. Bozek again. They took new x-rays and photos. They came up with a plan.

The plan.

Lauren’s treatment plan is going to take 2 years. Her little mouth has so much going on in there. 

The teeth on the top need the most treatment. The molars need to be moved outward. This allows more space to move the teeth at the front so that they are straight.

You can see the top molars on the right side are inside the molars on the bottom.

To move the molars outwards, they will be installing a pallet expander. 

But before they can do that, they had to put in spacers. These do exactly what they sound like they do. They create space between the molars. They need this space to put bands around her teeth that hold the expander.

Step 1: Spacers

Yesterday was the first step in her orthodontics journey. Lauren was nervous, but she climbed into the chair. She was in the middle chair and she carefully watched the two girls in the chairs beside her: one was getting fitted for her retainer and the other was getting a mould. Lauren was going to have to do this as well.

She said the mould material tasted like marshmallows and that it wasn’t that bad.

Orthodontics - Spacers

With Lauren’s dental history (6 cavities when she was only 6), I wasn’t surprised when the ortho technician told me that she flinched a little when she went to put the spacer in. Lauren is very hesitant when to comes to any dental stuff as she’s worried that it will hurt like getting cavities filled.

In the end, they were done and she was excited that they were turquoise. (I’ll post again about why.)

Filed Under: family, Life, peanut, teeth Tagged With: Bozek, Lauren, ortho, orthodontics, peanut, teeth

Toothless { Wordless Wednesday }

January 28, 2014 by Wendy S

Wordless Wednesday

She’s missing all 4 front teeth!!

 


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ww: All she wants for Christmas is… {linky}

September 24, 2013 by Wendy S


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