Curry Stained Ceramic Braces

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.

Curry stained ceramic braces.

One of the most common questions we get on archwire s metal mouth forum involves brackets particularly ceramic brackets stained from foods particularly curry. 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 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 brackets themselves don t usually have stains but all the other components are.

Curry can easily stain your ceramic braces and the elastics rubber bands ligatures too. Fortunately it s fairly simple to minimize or remove unattractive staining and keep the braces less noticeable. The ligatures are those little o shaped bands on each bracket that hold the arch wire in place. You need to know the factors that lead to staining beforehand.

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. Unlike with traditional metallic braces the brackets on ceramic braces match the color of your teeth. However as much as we would like to have these unique ceramic braces they stain easily if not well taken care of. The brackets themselves are still white but the elastic ligatures have become stained.

Relax your brackets are not stained.