Curry Stained Ceramic Braces

Curry can easily stain your ceramic braces and the elastics rubber bands ligatures too.

Curry stained ceramic braces.

The ceramic brackets themselves resist picking up color from food or drink but the bonding glue and the rubber bands that connect the braces will turn color if you re not careful. The dental practitioner bonds a clear ceramic bracket to the tooth surface and attaches ligatures that aren t any over small rubber bands to skinny metal arch wires to re align the teeth. One of the most common questions we get on archwire s metal mouth forum involves brackets particularly ceramic brackets stained from foods particularly curry. It will stain ceramic braces and ligatures and after brushing and trying to clean the stain off you will just get a lighter and lighter shade of yellow and then teal.

Turmeric that delicious and indispensable spice that gives indian food its delicious flavor stains everything it comes into contact with a shade of curious yellow. You need to know the factors that lead to staining beforehand. This can make your smile unattractive because any color will be prominent when your white teeth are in the background. The brackets themselves are still white but the elastic ligatures have become stained.

The ligatures are those little o shaped bands on each bracket that hold the arch wire in place. Fortunately it s fairly simple to minimize or remove unattractive staining and keep the braces less noticeable. The modern braces ar created for providing custom solutions to all or any the those that face troubles in their teeth. The brackets themselves don t usually have stains but all the other components are.

Relax your brackets are not stained.