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How can you treat deep cuts in mouth from braces?
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Use Salt water / wax: Braces can often cause discomfort from the brackets, bands, or wires in the mouth. Using salt water rinses will help heal the gum tissues. In addition, dental wax given to you by your orthodontist, general dentist, or even local pharmacy will greatly help by placing it over the areas that are causing the problem. Finally, your orthodontist can often even trim the wire or polish the brackets.
Answered 9/4/2013
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Many treatments: 1. Ask your orthodontic specialist to check your braces to make sure there are no annoying "stickers" that he/she can reshape for you. 2. Take 1 200mg ibuprofen/advil/motrin with food or lots of liquid 4x/day. 3. Rinse 3x/day with 1 tsp salt in 8oz warm water. Do not swallow. 4. Apply orthodontic wax to "sticker." 5. With q-tip dab orabase-b onto sore spot.
Answered 9/13/2013
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