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As a general rule:
Should you or your child experience any problems with your application, please contact us immediately, or consult our replacement / your dentist if our practice is closed for the holidays. The following advice is meant as a quick fix to bridge the time before professional help is at hand.

 Breakage of removable appliance 

If the appliance still fits, despite the breakage, file down the sharp edges with a nail file and carry on wearing it as much as possible.

Breakage

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 Irritating wire tip 

Pliers

Wax protection

If possible, tightly cut off the wire tip with nail-clippers or pliers; dry the area with a cotton pad. Then treat the remaining wire tip with wax.

Bending the wire

Or, try and press the wire to the tooth with a blunt object (e.g. the back of a ball pen).
If it is not possible for you to come to our practice immediately, please ask your dentist to file down the wire tip.

 Sore areas 

Sore areas

Rinse your mouth with Corsodyl or similar products several times a day, to prevent any inflammations. Irritating areas should first be dried with cotton tips, then padded with wax and possibly nursed with small cotton rolls during the night.

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…with wax

…with cotton rolls

 Loose brackets 

Loose bracket

If the bracket concerned is in the middle of the tooth arc, please just leave it where it is, and come and see us as soon as possible.

If the bracket concerned is at the end of the tooth row, please cut off the bracket and the connecting wire with nail-clippers or pliers, dry the area with cotton pads and apply wax to the end of the wire.

 Loose bands 

Loose band

If it is a band with no appliance attached to it, please try and remove the loose band. If it is a band with a fixed appliance, please first clean the tooth and then try to push the band back onto the tooth. Contact us immediately.