Curry Stained Ceramic Braces

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

Curry stained ceramic braces.

The brackets themselves don t usually have stains but all the other components are. You need to know the factors that lead to staining beforehand. The ligatures are those little o shaped bands on each bracket that hold the arch wire in place. One of the most common questions we get on archwire s metal mouth forum involves brackets particularly ceramic brackets stained from foods particularly curry.

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. This can make your smile unattractive because any color will be prominent when your white teeth are in the background. Don t worry about the stains too much. However as much as we would like to have these unique ceramic braces they stain easily if not well taken care of.

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. Relax your brackets are not stained. 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. The brackets themselves are still white but the elastic ligatures have become stained.

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.