#braces care tips

[woolaverorthodontics]

Breaking Bad Habits with Invisalign: A Path to a Healthier Smile

Bad habits can wreak havoc on your oral health over time, but Invisalign offers a transformative way to not only straighten your teeth but also break those damaging habits. From thumb sucking to teeth grinding, Invisalign can address a wide range of issues while promoting long-term dental wellness.

How Invisalign Helps Break Bad Habits

Invisalign aligners are custom-made, clear trays designed to gradually shift your teeth into their correct positions. These trays serve a dual purpose:

Correcting Alignment Issues – Invisalign gradually straightens teeth.

Discouraging Harmful Behaviors – The aligners act as a protective barrier or reminder against habits like nail-biting, teeth grinding, or tongue thrusting.

1. Prevents Thumb-Sucking in Teens and Adults

Thumb-sucking, while often associated with children, can persist into adolescence and adulthood. This habit leads to misaligned teeth and jaw issues.

Invisalign's Role: The aligners serve as a physical barrier, making it more challenging to suck the thumb and reducing the tendency to engage in this behavior.

2. Reduces Teeth Grinding (Bruxism)

Bruxism can lead to tooth wear, sensitivity, and jaw pain. Invisalign aligners act as a buffer, preventing teeth from grinding against each other.

Key Benefit: Protects enamel while addressing alignment issues that may contribute to grinding.

3. Discourages Nail-Biting

Nail-biting is a common habit that weakens teeth and exposes them to harmful bacteria. Invisalign wearers find it difficult to bite their nails with aligners in place.

Behavioral Change: The aligners act as a physical deterrent, breaking the cycle of nail-biting.

Additional Benefits of Invisalign

Improved Oral Health: Straightened teeth are easier to clean, reducing the risk of cavities and gum disease.

Boost in Confidence: A better smile can significantly enhance self-esteem.

Customizable Treatment: Invisalign treatment is tailored to fit your specific dental needs.

Conclusion

Invisalign isn't just about achieving a straighter smile—it's a tool to improve oral health and break bad habits. Whether it's thumb-sucking, teeth grinding, or nail-biting, Invisalign can help guide you toward healthier practices while aligning your teeth.

If you're ready to transform your smile and your habits, consult with an orthodontist or visit Woolaver Orthodontics to start your journey.

[sydmarch]

wearing my brace into the pit in hopes people notice it & avoid further injuring me

[starlooove]

Oh. Sad

[gpstudios]

Celebrating International Retainer Day: Embracing the Journey to a Perfect Smile

Happy International Retainer Day! 🦷 Celebrate the journey to a perfect smile and the crucial role retainers play in maintaining it. Learn about retainer care, share your smile story, and enjoy the benefits of a healthy, beautiful smile!

Happy International Retainer Day! This unique day is dedicated to recognizing the importance of retainers in orthodontic treatment and celebrating the journey towards achieving and maintaining a perfect smile. Whether you’ve just completed your braces journey or have been wearing your retainer for years, today is a day to appreciate the role these small yet vital devices play in keeping our teeth…

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Dental Braces Treatments: Post-Operative Care

Postoperative care is essential for those who have recently undergone orthodontic treatment with braces. The first stage of treatment is critical for maintaining comfort, preventing complications, and achieving optimal results. Understanding how to care for your braces after surgery can have a big impact on the success of your treatment.

For more information read post operative instructions here: https://www.orisdentalcenter.ae/post-operative-care/dental-braces-treatments.html

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Why Invisalign® Aligners May Taste Rotten or Smelly: Causes and Solutions

Invisalign® aligners are an innovative, nearly invisible orthodontic solution. However, some patients may experience an unpleasant taste or odor from their aligners. This issue can be concerning, but it's often easily resolved by identifying the underlying causes and taking appropriate steps to maintain proper oral hygiene. Let’s explore the potential reasons for this issue and provide effective solutions to ensure your Invisalign® experience is as comfortable as possible.

Why Invisalign® Aligners May Taste or Smell Bad

1. Accumulation of Bacteria

Your mouth naturally contains bacteria that, when left unchecked, can thrive in the tight-fitting environment created by Invisalign® aligners. These bacteria can contribute to a foul taste and odor, particularly if the aligners aren't cleaned thoroughly.

2. Poor Oral Hygiene Practices

Wearing aligners means food particles and plaque can easily get trapped between your teeth and the aligners. If you don’t brush and floss properly after every meal, these particles break down, leading to bad breath and unpleasant tastes.

3. Dehydration

A dry mouth can lead to an increase in bacteria, which contributes to bad breath. Dehydration may also leave a rotten or metallic taste in the mouth when wearing aligners, as saliva plays a crucial role in keeping your mouth clean.

4. Eating and Drinking With Aligners On

Invisalign® aligners are designed to be removed before eating or drinking anything other than water. Consuming food or beverages with aligners in place can cause particles to stick to them, creating a breeding ground for bacteria and leading to unpleasant odors.

5. Improper Aligner Cleaning

Failure to clean your aligners as instructed can result in bacteria and plaque buildup. Over time, this can cause a rotten smell or bad taste, especially if aligners are worn for extended periods without being properly sanitized.

How to Eliminate Bad Taste and Odor from Invisalign® Aligners

1. Maintain a Strict Oral Hygiene Routine

To minimize bacteria and ensure fresh breath while wearing aligners, brush your teeth thoroughly after every meal and floss daily. Use fluoride toothpaste and make sure to reach all surfaces, especially those in contact with the aligners.

2. Clean Your Aligners Regularly

Follow the recommended cleaning guidelines for your Invisalign® aligners. Rinse them with lukewarm water and brush them gently using a soft-bristled toothbrush. Avoid using toothpaste, as it may scratch the aligners and cause bacteria to stick to the surface.

3. Use a Sterilizing Solution

For added protection, consider using a specialized aligner cleaning solution or soaking your aligners in a mixture of water and Invisalign® cleaning crystals. These products help disinfect your aligners and eliminate odors more effectively than simple brushing alone.

5. Avoid Eating or Drinking With Aligners

To prevent food particles and bacteria from accumulating on your aligners, always remove them before eating or drinking anything other than water. This habit will greatly reduce the likelihood of bad smells developing.

6. Replace Your Aligners as Recommended

Aligners are typically worn for one to two weeks before being replaced with the next set. Sticking to this schedule ensures that your aligners remain clean and free from bacterial buildup.

Potential Health Risks of Ignoring Aligners Odor or Taste Issues

1. Increased Risk of Cavities

If food particles and bacteria linger under your aligners due to poor hygiene, it may lead to tooth decay. This can cause cavities, which can result in long-term damage if left untreated.

2. Gum Disease

Gingivitis and periodontal disease can develop if plaque accumulates beneath your aligners. These conditions can cause inflammation, bleeding, and a persistent bad taste or odor.

3. Oral Infections

Failing to clean your aligners properly or ignoring bad smells could result in oral infections. If bacteria are allowed to thrive, you may develop infections in the gums or other soft tissues.

When to Consult a Dentist or Orthodontist

If you've followed all recommended hygiene practices and still experience a rotten taste or foul odor while wearing Invisalign® aligners, it's time to consult your dentist or orthodontist. They can examine your oral health, check the fit of your aligners, and recommend any necessary adjustments or treatments to resolve the issue.

Key Warning Signs That Require Professional Attention:

Persistent bad breath even after cleaning

Swollen, tender, or bleeding gums

Signs of tooth decay or cavities

Pain or discomfort in your teeth or gums

Preventing Future Issues with Invisalign® Aligners

1. Use an Aligner Case

Always store your aligners in a clean case when not in use. This helps to prevent exposure to germs and bacteria from outside sources.

2. Use Aligner Cleaning Tablets

Aligner cleaning tablets, such as Invisalign® Cleaning Crystals, are an excellent way to deep clean your trays. Soaking your aligners in the solution for 10-15 minutes daily can eliminate bacteria and ensure a fresh taste and odor.

3. Regular Dental Checkups

Make sure to visit your dentist regularly to monitor your oral health while undergoing Invisalign® treatment. These visits can help catch any hygiene issues early before they turn into bigger problems.

Conclusion

Invisalign® aligners offer a comfortable, convenient, and nearly invisible way to achieve a straight smile. However, issues such as a rotten taste or smelly aligners can arise if oral hygiene is not adequately maintained. By following a strict cleaning routine, removing your aligners when necessary, and staying hydrated, you can ensure that your Invisalign® experience remains as fresh as possible. If problems persist, consult your dentist or orthodontist for professional advice and treatment.

[nighttimealone]

Cw: Nsfw (Car sex)

Car sex isn’t something for König, or at least that’s what he thought before he met you. He’s huge, those long legs doesn’t even fit into the driving seat without bumping his knees, and he always has to be extra careful when shifting his body, so he won’t hit his head on the roof. Squeezing into his car is already a hard task for him, let alone trying to fuck someone within it.

You changed his mind, though. Always wearing those short skirts that barely cover your pretty ass, with a thong—or even without any underwear if you feel extra naughty that day— sparing you both from the trouble to take off your clothes in the cramped vehicle.

Just like tonight, your white skirt rides up to your hips, the exquisite pink thong he bought for you nudged aside as you sit on his lap,

“Scheiß, keep going, Süße, just like that, keep bouncing on my cock…” König’s panting heavily as he encouraging you to continue. He has lowered the seat, letting it lean back so he can give you more space to do your work. He loves the view, looking up at you fucking yourself on his fat dick, tits bouncing with every movements while you slam your ass down, taking his cock so well, and from this angle, he’s able to see how your perfect cunt wrapped around him, juices coating his cock, covering its every inches and veins as the fat tip of his emerges and disappears into it repeatedly.

“Want to come, baby, can’t last long.” Bracing yourself with both hands on his chest, you look down to meet his deep blue eyes, picking up the pace after he gets too excited from seeing the desires in your glossy eyes and rock his hips upwards into you briefly. You can’t help the moans and whimpers slipping out of your lips, not when his cock rutting into you and the veins glide against the g spots and all during its way.

“Come for me, liebe, come for me…” His hands now rest on your hips, pinning you on his cock when you nod and scream out his name in pleasure, and coaxing his own orgasm out with your warm cunt clenching down in release.

“Let’s go home?” You lift your head up from his chest and suggest, while you still pout without you even noticing when he pulls out, already missing how well it stretched you just minutes ago although he just ended up with a load inside you.

“Ja, let’s go home.” He tugs at your thong, staining with obvious white cum standing out from the pink fabric, let it cover up that swollen clit and puffy lips again and give it a pat.

A huff of laughter escaping his throat when König sets you back on the passenger seat, he can tell you’re still needy from the little pout of your plump lips. Don’t worry, Engel, he still got the whole night for you, and as an appreciation for your hard work, he’ll bend you over all your favorite places in home, fuck you nicely with his monstrous cock till you squirt and drenching him in your juices.

[monstersflashlight]

Just the tip (Day 3/8 of 10k followers event)

Minotaur x fem!reader || size kink, soft (but filthy) sex, dirty talk, breeding, oral sex

You are quietly walking through the supermarket one day when you have to climb a shelf because you can’t reach the fucking cereals you want. You are pushing your body up when you slip and brace yourself for impact. But the impact never comes. You feel strong big arms around you and when you look up you are staring into the eyes of the biggest minotaur you’ve ever seen.

From that point on, you see him every time you go to the supermarket, it’s like magic. You are going grocery shopping? He’s walking the aisle like he’s there just for you. Days pass and you can’t stop thinking about how wonderful he is, how pretty… and how fucking big. He insists on helping you get everything from the top shelf, you aren’t exactly little, but he’s so tall and broad and fucking magnificent… You agree. And just like that, you have a new grocery shopping friend.

Your friendship develops from there, you gave him your phone, he texts you when he’s going shopping, you met there. Sometimes you go out for coffee after, sometimes he insists on following you home and helping you put the groceries away… You never thought it was wrong because if felt completely fine, it felt natural and amazing to trust him, to feel cared for. And you think you might be in love.

When he finally asks you out, you say “yes” so fast he starts laughing as you blush like a teenager. He embraces you human body against his big minotaur one and lifts you up, burying his big head in your neck as you grab his horns. The sinful groan he lets out makes you whimper in need, and just like that, you two are horny as fuck and it’s like something broke inside you. A new kind of need awakening.

You go on a date that feels like the longest foreplay you’ve ever felt. The date is fucking fantastic, you two fitting better than puzzle pieces, and you can’t stop thinking how much you want to suck his cock. If he’s somewhat proportionate, he must be huge, and that thought plagues your brain every time you look at him. But you don’t say nothing that day.

You continue dating and going groceries together, and after a month of constant turn-on state, you are casually hanging out in your kitchen putting the groceries away as he sits and looks at you while you two talk.

“What?” He asks when he catches you staring at him for the hundredth time, a big smile in his pretty face. He’s so cute you want to hit him, sometimes. You can’t deal with such adorable being.

You look at him, feeling your cheeks getting hot already. “I- Nothing,” you say, embarrassed to admit you were thinking about his dick, once again. You are in a constant state of sexual frustration since you started dating. You thought it would be more sex and less cuteness, and you aren’t mad about it being cute, but dang, you want his cock so deeply inside of you, you could feel him for days after.

He smirks, grabbing a grape out of the bag and chewing it slowly. “Come on, don’t be shy, tell me.” His absurdly hot face and body look so tantalizing and you feel so ready to climb him like a tree every time you get close to him...

“I- I lowkey… Never mind, it’s too embarrassing.” You look down as you take some more groceries and store them in the cupboard. You hear him getting up and getting closer to you, his heat behind you making you melt against his chest. His strong arms coming around you as you sigh, happily. He turns you around and pecks at your lips, his big eyes making pleading as he says nothing. “Okay, okay, stop using those big eyes on me. I… I was thinking about your dick,” you confess, hiding your face in his chest.

He pulls his fingers under your chin and pushes your face up. He’s looking at you with such tenderness and heat in his eyes that you have to grab at his shirt harder not to fall, your knees weak under you. “Say that again?” He asks, his tone pleadingly.

“We… We’ve been seeing each other for a long time and I… I want to move things further,” you let out slowly, looking at him for any reaction. But his face is completely blank and you start doubting everything about your relationship. The voices in your head are loud as you let out a choked: “It’s okay if it’s too fast, I get it. I know. Shutting up now.” It’s been too little, he doesn’t feel the same, he’s just with you because you are exotic… Your inner monologue is filled with self-doubt.

“No. No, it’s not that,” he says, an edge of self-doubt mirroring yours. You blush hard as you look at him up and down, your brain going a mile per minute and falling into the worst possible scenarios.

“What then?” You ask, neediness bleeding into your voice. “You… You don’t find me attractive?” You finally ask, your self-esteem issues making you want to cry as he looks down at you with the most shocked expression ever.

“What?! Are you insane?!” His growl is so deep and feral that your knees turn into jelly under you.

You grab the edge of the counter not to fall. But you can’t respond with anything before he’s manhandling your body over your kitchen table and pushing all the groceries to the ground. You are about to protest when he leans over your body and starts kissing you senseless. His arms part your legs and he steps between them, his monstrous bulge fitting perfectly against your clothed pussy.

“You want this?” He says as he grinds against you. “Are you sure?” He sounds hesitant, but his dick is so hard against you that you want to scream.

“Yes. Yes. Yes,” you chant, trying to grind against him. He growls and rips your clothes off in two fast tugs, leaving you naked over the table, like a sacrifice for the minotaur. And you are more than ready to be devoured.

He pulls his fly open in one tug, probably breaking it in the process, but his movements are frantic. He pushes against you once again, his dick huge against your dripping cunt. “I don’t want to hurt you,” he grunts, his dick leaking precum. Leaking so much of it that you feel it dripping over your wet pussy, making a bigger mess. “I don’t think I would fit, you are so tiny.” He proves his point pressing a finger inside you, making you arch your back and moan loudly. He grunts as he fucks you slowly. His finger feels already so big...

“Just the tip,” you try to argue, wanting nothing more than to be fucked. You know you can take him. At least some of him, but he’s so caring and so worried about you… Always worried. You moan and try to move your hips, but his grip is non-forgiving. You can’t move even a millimeter as he rubs his tip against your wet folds around his finger still buried inside. “Please, please,” you always thought you were above begging, but today you learned a new thing about yourself.

“Just the tip?” He asks, the big head of his cock teasing your entrance. “You are so tight,” he grunts. You feel like he’s going to break you apart as he presses lightly, making you cry out. He pulls back, scared that he hurt you, but you shush him, kissing his snout and grabbing his horns. You know he loves when you play with his horns, he told you how sensitive they were.

“Just the tip,” you repeat. You are already feeling needy and desperate, wanting nothing more but for him to fuck you into oblivion, even if that means you’d be impaled by a giant dick.

“You are soaking,” he groans as he gets in position, making you hot all over. The sounds he makes are so erotic you can’t stop moaning in response.

He starts pushing inside millimeter by millimeter and you feel like your body is being torn. He’s so big, so massive inside of you. You don’t know if you can take him. You don’t know if the tip was already too much for your poor human pussy.

“You feel amazing, such a good little human for me.” He keeps going, shushing your whimpers and telling you how good you feel, how pretty you look stretched around him. “Your pussy is so good, you feel so tight around me. Your pussy feels amazing, best pussy I’ve ever tried, I’m not gonna give you up for anything in the world. You are MINE.” With a roar he pushes a bit deeper, making you cry out.

After that it’s like a switch turns off inside him. Before you realize, he’s slipped a bit more inside. And a bit more. And he’s halfway there when he starts to fuck you in earnest, losing complete control of himself because of how good you feel. You start chanting his name as he keeps hitting deep inside of you. Too much, too deep, but so, so good you can’t stop the tears from falling freely.

He fucks you like a piston, so lost in the pleasure of your body that you can’t even think straight as he goes and goes and goes. You don’t know where his body starts and yours ends. You don’t know what day it is or what’s your own name. You just know his dick pushing far and deep inside of you, harder and harder with each thrust. It’s maddening.

“I’m gonna breed you,” he starts. You groan in response, the idea of being filled to the brim making you hotter than expected. And he keeps going, “I’m gonna come so far inside of you, you are gonna feel me inside for days.” You groan again, rocking your hips against him. “Rub your pretty clit for me, fall apart around my dick, let me feel your pussy milking me.” You scream at his words, overwhelmed.

You obey, rubbing your clit as he fucks you furiously on the table, the wood underneath you creaking under the force of his thrusts. It takes you less than two seconds to come around his shaft, only halfway in, but bigger than anything you’ve ever tried.

“Just like that, yes. Yes. Good little human.” He starts babbling nonsense as he fucks you though your orgasm.

When you are coming down from the extracorporeal experience that is an orgasm with him, you feel the first shoot of his come inside of you. He comes, and comes, and comes a bit more. You feel some come leaking around his dick, you feel so full you don’t know what to do but squirm under him. The movement just makes everything move and you groan, clenching around him as he grunts.

He pulls out after what feels like an eternity hugging each other, your pussy feels raw and abused. You whimper when he touches you, so tender and fucked out, but he doesn’t really care, a dazed look in his eyes as he looks at your leaking pussy. You push your body up on your elbows, looking down at him as he kneels on the floor, between your legs. He launches at your pussy, eating you out until he deems you are clean enough. You come three times before he’s done.

And then he takes you to bed and does it all over again.