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Preventive and interceptive measures for improving and maintaining oral hygiene during braces.
What preventive and interceptive measures are available for improving and maintaining good oral hygiene and cariogenic control in orthodontic patients?
The link below is an article and Dr. Noble and Dr. Cassolato are co-authors that outline measures patients with braces can undertake to improve their oral hygiene during orthodontic treatment. We hope you enjoy it!
Be Better
This is the text from Apple’s commercial, “Better”. I hope you find it as powerful as I did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdeVaT-zZt4
Better.
It’s a powerful word, and a powerful ideal.
It makes us look at the world and want more than anything to change it for the better.
To innovate. Improve. To reinvent. To make it … better.
It’s in our DNA. And better can’t be better if it doesn’t consider everything.
Our products, our values, and an even stronger commitment to the environment for the future.
To use greener materials, less packaging.
To do everything we can to keep our products out of landfills.
Changes that will benefit people as well as the planet.
To us, better is a force of nature. It drives us to build things we never imagined.
New data centers powered by the sun and wind.
A new manufacturing facility that runs on 100% clean energy.
And new product designs that make use of recycled materials.
All ways to reduce our impact on the environment.
We have a long way to go and a lot to learn.
But now more than ever we will work to leave the world better than we found and make the tools that inspire others to do the same.
-Apple Commercial “Better”
Warning! Oral Piercing is Highly Dangerous for Your Health
Body piercing, especially the face piercing has gained tremendous popularity among adolescents of the current generation with piercings of the ears, eyebrows, lips, tongue and chin, the list goes on. They insert different types of jewelry like – studs, barbells and rings in these pierced places to give them a more stylish look but unfortunately they do it by putting their health on lifelong risks. Dr. James Noble at Orthodontics at Don Mils is concerned with oral piercing as its hazards are not just limited to your oral health but also to your overall body’s health, causing a greater risk to your life.
Although, there are different risks associated with different kinds of body piercing yet here we are going to discuss, the oral piercing, that may involve the tongue as well as lip piercing.
Associated Risks with Tongue Piercing
In tongue piercing, a metal role is incorporated in the middle of the tongue. As the piercing is done through a foreign object; therefore, there is great risk of germs transmission that are usually in the form of viruses of different diseases like hepatitis and others. Your mouth always contains some kinds of bacteria and during piercing; these microbes can run into the blood vessels, present in the tongue. Once the infection is transferred into your tongue, it may transfer to your other body parts rapidly, ultimately causing a serious disease.
Pain and Swelling in Tongue
Piercing can also become a major cause of pain, swelling and even bleeding in the tongue. Sometimes the tongue swells to an extent that it may become a great hindrance in proper air intake. Thus, it becomes difficult to swallow and chew foods and you just have to rely on liquids; thus, the insufficient food can become a major cause of your week health and sudden weight loss.
Damages to Gums and Teeth
Usually, the people become habitual of playing with the piercing in their mouth by rolling or twisting it, which severely damages the teeth surface and also causes wounds, swelling and bleeding in the gums. Your teeth may get scratched or fractured or can even become oversensitive. If you have fillings in your teeth, piercing can damage it, ultimately exposing your teeth roots. Academy of General Dentistry revealed a report that indicated that the tongue piercing can become a cause of chipped teeth, infections, nerve and gum damage, drooling, taste loss and even tooth loss. It is revealed from another report that the people, who wear tongue jewelry continuously for four or more years can get their teeth chipped.
Damage to Nerve
After a piercing, your tongue may get numb due to anesthesia and damage blood vessels. The numbness vanishes with the passage of time. However, in some cases, it may persist permanently resultantly damaging your taste buds and mouth movement.
Drooling
In most of the people, piercing results in excessive saliva production in your mouth that might irritate you a lot.
Procedure and oral hygiene instruction for a maxillary expander
If you have or are going to be receiving a maxillary expander at Orthodontics at Don Mills, you will receive detailed instructions on the procedure and oral hygiene instructions from one of our amazing team members. Here is Marisa reviewing this with you. If you have any questions about your RPE, please call us. Congratulations on your expander!
Canadian Association of Orthodontists launches new website
To help inform the general public about orthodontic treatment and the benefits of visiting an orthodontist for braces and Invisalign treatment, the Canadian Association of Orthodontists (CAO) launched a new website with information on these important topics.
Dr. Noble was part of the Canadian Association of Orthodontists committee who designed and wrote their new website which is filled with information for the public to learn about the dental specialty of orthodontics. Please check it out at: