Fixed ceramic braces
Tooth-coloured brackets. Full arch correction.
Ceramic self-ligating brackets (Damon Clear) with nickel-titanium archwires. The treatment time is similar to metal braces — the aesthetic difference is the main draw. Better-suited than Invisalign for cases requiring significant rotation, extrusion, or closing extraction spaces. Brackets are ligated on upper arch only and fully clear; lower arch uses metal brackets (cheaper, and lower arch is less visible).
For the first 4–7 days after placement, your teeth will be sore — this is normal. Soft diet, paracetamol or ibuprofen as needed, orthodontic wax on any brackets irritating your cheek or lip.
Avoid hard and sticky food throughout treatment: no toffee, no chewing gum, no nuts, no ice-chewing, no hard bread crusts, no biting into whole apples or corn on the cob. Breakages extend treatment time.
Clean around the brackets after every meal — a small interdental brush works better than floss. We will show you at your first review.
Monthly adjustment visits are essential. If you miss two in a row, treatment stalls and can extend by months.
When braces come off, wear retainers as instructed — usually a fixed retainer behind the lower front teeth and a nightly clear retainer on the upper.
- A bracket coming loose — call us, book within a week (sooner if it is poking and painful)
- A wire poking that wax does not settle — we will trim it in a 5-minute visit
- Severe ongoing pain that is not settling after 7 days