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A member asked:
Please explain if it is safe to wear dental wax on your braces while you are sleeping?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Chocolate: Read the ingredients on a chocolate bar wrapper. There' slots of wax in chocolate. If you swallow a little wax while asleep it will "work out all right in the end." use wax to cover "stickers" until you get used to braces. It's safe and effective.
Answered 1/19/2014
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Not really.: I would not recommend using dental wax while sleeping. If the wax becomes dislodged, it can be swollowed or caught in the airway. Better safe than sorry.
Answered 5/1/2015
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Sure: likely will stay in place, and if not, its not harmful to swallow in the size you are using (about a pea sized amount)
Answered 11/6/2016
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