Ceramic Braces Grey Ligatures

The difference is that the material used for the brackets is a clear or tooth colored ceramic.

Ceramic braces grey ligatures.

These are used for both metal braces and ceramic braces. Like with metal braces one can choose to wear colorful elastic ties on the tooth colored brackets. This means the braces blend in with the teeth and are much less obvious from a distance. One of the reasons for wearing ceramic braces instead of the traditional metal ones is them being much less noticeable.

These ligatures can stain especially. Links to ligatures pink. Try this at your own risk. Ceramic appliances use essentially the same components as metal braces and achieve much the same results.

Changing to pink and clear ties or ligatures on my clear ceramic braces. The ceramic braces of today do not have this problem. I ve opted for ceramic braces on my top 6 teeth and metal on the rest. I work with kids and will hopefully be attending grad school next fall so i wanted my teeth to not be too distracting.

In most cases both the brackets and the elastics on ceramic braces come in transparent or tooth colored colors. Staining of the elastic bands can be remedied easily by changing the bands by your orthodontist. However the wire on braces is normally held in place with little rubber bands called ligatures. You have 3 working parts in your ceramic braces.

I ve heard that the clear ligatures that come with ceramic braces stain easily and was wondering if anyone could recommend colors that are still fairly. You can request tie wires that do not stain at all. Elastic ligatures or bands ceramic brackets and metal archwire.