Wearing Your Elastics
- Elastics must be worn 24 hours a day, even when you sleep!
- It is acceptable to take off elastics when you are eating and brushing your teeth. Replace elastics immediately afterward.
- Because elastics lose their strength after a couple of hours, change elastics 4 times a day.
- Put on new elastics after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner, and right before bedtime!
- It is natural and expected that elastics will cause soreness. This will subside if elastics are worn continually.
- If your run out or lose your elastics, quickly call our office to either pick up or have elastics mailed to you. We do not want to delay your orthodontic treatment!