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In one week they are going to put me brackets above and below and i wanted to know everything what they are going to do to me since I feel in the armchair of the orthodontist.
Thank for your answers .

You meant the process of applying braces? Well they usually put a device in your mouth that widens and holds on your lips and cheeks back. They take a cotton swab and make your brace tooth dry, they mix this edible, cement like substance. They rub someone your teeth and put the bracket on. They then use ultraviolet ray gun to superheat the cement and make it stay. Its a sour taste. It doesn’t hurt when its being done. Then they add the wire and put an elastic over the wire which ties to the bracket, the wires hook into these metal encasing around your molars.

Your moulds are a different story….

I heard that you can oxydise the area (although with limited success)?! What can be done instead of ruining the intergrity of the tooth?

I went to a new dentist and was quite annoyed to find I had a bit of decay on one tooth, as my last dentist had been keeping an eye on it for over a year and suggested things to do prevention wise but didn’t do anything and now the new dentist says I need a filling.

I can;t compain to the old dentist as I have moved to the other side of the world

The structure of teeth are composed of proteins and mineral deposites (calcium apatite). When teeth form the proteins form a scaffold and the calcium crystals start to fill in around the protein scaffold. Bacteria in your mouth (like strep mutans) produce acids which can cause the minerals on your teeth (enamel and dentin) to dissolve. In early cavities, just some of the calcium minerals are dissolved and the protein scaffold remains intact. At this point, there are some things to do to possibly remineralize the tooth (like topical fluoride). However, if the tooth continues to demineralize to the point that the protein scaffold is completely exposed, the protein scaffold collapses and it becomes impossible for the tooth to remineralize. Essentially you have a mush of tooth proteins that becomes a little nest for more and more bacteria to live in. The only way to stop this is to remove it by surgery (cut it out), which is why you go to a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS).

Okay, so i’m 23 and getting braces in two weeks. My orthodontist had four molars (they were bad and capped and filled) removed along with a baby tooth. However, i had to have an oral surgeon remove them and he knew it was for braces. However, i’ve read other places that the surgeon puts a bracket on the adult tooth that is still hiding while your under, but he didn’t do that for me? What is the next option? I dont want to have to go under again, that was not pleasurable!!

?? Help, hardly any time left!

he will numb the tissue, make a little incision, cement a bracket onto the tooth, attach a wire or spring and maybe put a little stitch in the tissue. No big deal.