Braces are a method chosen by many people to adjust their teeth to improve aesthetics as well as chew better. However, to save money and time, many people look for at-home braces kits. These tool kits are currently sold quite a lot on the market, which also causes confusion in everyone’s hearts about the quality and effectiveness of use. Therefore, there are many questions surrounding the issue of whether to use at-home braces kits.
What is a home braces kit?
Each person’s need to improve oral aesthetics is higher, especially with braces. However, for many reasons, many people choose braces at home to perform braces.
In general, home braces tools are divided into 2 types: homemade tools and purchased on social networks.
Homemade braces tools
Using simple materials and methods online, many people have made their own braces and orthodontics for themselves:
- Braces with elastic bands: this is a simple method and is recommended by many people. Using elastic elastic bands to straighten teeth based on the operating principles of traditional braces.
- Homemade steel wire braces: just buy steel wire on the market, then see how to do it and then make a brace like in dentistry.
- Braces by using hands or tongue to push teeth: this is also a common method of adjusting teeth. However, the force used to push the tongue and hands will be uneven and uncontrolled, causing negative impacts on the jaw.
Braces tools bought online
Just type a few words online, you can easily find quite a few places selling at-home braces kits at quite cheap prices compared to dentistry.
Online braces kits are made from silicon or plastic for both children and adults. However, this tool has unknown origin, material standards, design parameters, etc.
Should you use an at-home braces kit? house?
Because at-home braces kits are convenient and cost much less than dentistry, many people choose them without careful research. However, the increasing number on the market also causes anxiety for customers, so many people wonder should they use home braces kits?
Teeth are quite important parts of the body. If teeth have problems, they not only affect the facial structure but also affect the stomach and digestion. Furthermore, if teeth are diseased or lost, they are very difficult to restore. Therefore, the costs related to teeth are quite high.
Braces is a technique of adjusting and pulling teeth to the correct position on the jaw by a doctor with technical skills, expertise, tools, and dental quality. If you arbitrarily buy a braces kit at home without an examination, it will cause many serious consequences.
Not only that, if you don’t detect teeth If you have a disease that is not treated first, wearing braces on your own will cause more and more dangerous complications.
Should you use at-home braces kits only in cases where you have been examined, tested, and instructed to use them at home as prescribed by your doctor. In cases where you arbitrarily buy them from outside without being examined, Checking is harmful to oral health.
Using home braces kits is potentially dangerous
After knowing the consequences of arbitrarily wearing braces at home, everyone also has their own answer about whether they should use the braces kit at home.
Here are some consequences of arbitrarily wearing braces at home:
- At-home braces kits create uneven force and do not control the force as well as the techniques used by dentists, so the force on the teeth may not be stable when tightening the braces, then returning to their original position, which is not effective and also causes pain. Prolonged sensitivity and even permanent tooth loss can occur.
- When you do braces at home without expertise or technique in dentistry, braces will create uneven force. This can cause the teeth to move in the wrong direction, becoming increasingly misaligned and crookedMore lumpy than before, even more unsightly.
- Steel wires and home-made elastic bands are tied too closely to the roots of teeth, causing damage to gum tissue and bone tissue. This causes loose tooth roots, directly affecting chewing function and indirectly affecting the digestive system and stomach. Even if this condition persists, it will lead to tooth loss.
- The most common complications when doing braces yourself at home are pulpitis, pulp death. Because when performed at home, impacting with strong, sudden force on the tooth can affect blood circulation and rupture blood vessels under the tooth root. This leads to serious infection and risk of bone marrow death.
- For adolescent children, the jawbone is still in the stage of completion and development. If you do not go to the dentist but get braces done at home, the possibility of teeth moving in the wrong direction may occur. From there, it causes serious consequences such as jaw bone and bite misalignment. Adults are also at risk of this condition, but the rate is lower.
- Teeth that are misaligned can cause damage to the blood vessels around the teeth. At the same time, the gums are also under heavy pressure, causing inflammation. In addition, in cases of using self-tied elastics at home, if the elastic slips on the tooth root and puts pressure on the gums, it will cut off the blood supply.
- Home braces kits are not hygienic and have not been sterilized or sterilized, of unknown origin, and have no design parameters according to each person’s jaw and tooth condition. Therefore, wearing it for a long time can easily breed bacteria and develop, leading to infection gums, affecting the jaw structure, causing harm to health.
Through the information shared in the article, surely everyone also has the answer should you use a home braces kit. To have even, beautiful, neat and safe teeth, you should see a doctor about home braces methods, do not arbitrarily buy them from outside and do them without following the procedure.
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