How to wear retainers
Retention appliances should be worn as follows:
- For the first week: Full time, except when eating, drinking and brushing
- For the second week: Afternoons & nights
- Thereafter for the first year: sleeping hours at night
- From the second year: every second night
- It is very important to keep checking the retainers and to wear them as necessary for the rest of your life, whenever they start feeling tight
- Should your retainer break it is very important to contact us to arrange for a new one to be made
CLEANING OF RETAINERS
- Wash retainers in cold water using soap or diluted
- Sunlight liquid Sterident can also be used but only with cold water