Elastic Instructions

Your appliances use forces (pressure) to align your teeth. These forces often require supplementation by additional components such as orthodontic elastics. At some point of your treatment, you will be called upon to use elastics that will attach to specific parts of your braces. Elastics are worn to achieve a good upper and lower jaw relationship. Excellent compliance with elastics is crucial to a good final treatment result!

1. Wear your elastics twenty-four hours a day, unless instructed otherwise.
2. Be sure to wear your elastics the way you were shown. These instructions are specific to your bite.
3. Change your elastics at least three times a day. Make sure to always carry extras with you, in case they break.
4. You can remove your elastics when you eat, if you remember to replace them as soon as you have brushed your teeth.
5. Your teeth will feel a little sore at first; this soreness will go away with consistent wear.
6. Excellent results are achieved with regular wear; otherwise, progress will be slow!
7. Forgetting to wear elastics can cause a setback in progress and result in wearing your braces and elastics longer!

You can do this! The more you wear your elastics the sooner you will be finished with them!