If you wear braces, you are probably ticking off the days until you will walk into the orthodontist’s office and have them removed. It will be feel good to have the pressure on your teeth relieved, but you aren’t quite done. Even though your braces have done the hard work of moving your teeth into proper alignment, your teeth, and... read more »

Your braces have an important job to do, and your job is to make sure that they can do that job well. You can accomplish that goal by properly cleaning and caring for your braces and your teeth for the duration of your treatment. With the traditional metal braces, you should carefully inspect them every day for for damage to... read more »

Poor oral hygiene while you are wearing braces can result in cavities on multiple teeth. Should this happen, it could potentially increase the amount of time it takes for the braces to realign your teeth. To help you better clean some of the hard to reach places in and around your braces, Mahlmann & Borders Orthodontics’s orthodontists recommend a few... read more »