Ceramic Braces Grey Ligatures

These are used for both metal braces and ceramic braces.

Ceramic braces grey ligatures.

These ligatures can stain especially. Elastic ligatures or bands ceramic brackets and metal archwire. The original ceramic braces did tend to stain especially if they were made with cheaper plastic. Links to ligatures pink.

You can request tie wires that do not stain at all. The small rubber or metal elastics more commonly called rubber bands that surround your braces are technically called elastic ligatures a ligature is used primarily to keep the archwire held into the slot on the bracket but they can also direct the teeth in a particular direction depending on the type of ligature used and how it is tied onto the tooth. In most cases both the brackets and the elastics on ceramic braces come in transparent or tooth colored colors. You have 3 working parts in your ceramic braces.

I ve opted for ceramic braces on my top 6 teeth and metal on the rest. Try this at your own risk. One of the reasons for wearing ceramic braces instead of the traditional metal ones is them being much less noticeable. This means the braces blend in with the teeth and are much less obvious from a distance.

I work with kids and will hopefully be attending grad school next fall so i wanted my teeth to not be too distracting. Changing to pink and clear ties or ligatures on my clear ceramic braces. Staining of the elastic bands can be remedied easily by changing the bands by your orthodontist. I m not a pro.

The ceramic braces of today do not have this problem. The difference is that the material used for the brackets is a clear or tooth colored ceramic. Ceramic appliances use essentially the same components as metal braces and achieve much the same results.