hey it's dr amanda with straightsmilesolutions.com and today i want to talk to you a little bit more
about how to remove brackets um in-house how to do it these are just some typodonts
i have that are kind of bust up so i thought i'd do another demo video for you guys on
removing brackets i know you guys love these videos so i'll just talk you through it um
basically here's my armamentarium um this is an adhesive remover okay there's they sell a better
one that has like a claw shape and the really good ones have a hex screw here that you can
take this piece in and out because this will wear down um but this is kind of a cheaper version but
yeah it really helps and um dental assistants can use this in most states because it's super coronal
just to scrape off the big chunks of glue this is a ligature cutter or a pin cutter it's sharp
here it's basically like a cuticle scissor if you um just a little bit bigger but they make them in
different sizes this is my go-to plier yes if you use this to remove brackets you will likely
dull it but they're pretty cheap so this is just a regular black bracket remover this is a straight
version which is better for anterior teeth okay they have a version that has a right angle and
it's better for posterior teeth obviously you can't get back here like that so for that reason
i'll be using this for anterior teeth and for posterior teeth i'll be using these okay and of
course you know we need our regular hemostat math outplayer this is like a bad one oh i should have
got you guys a better one but you know sometimes you have to pull things off i normally leave the
wires in um because it helps everything stay connected so we don't have individual brackets
flying around going down people's throats um but you know ultimately it depends on what you've got
going on here i'm not going to take out the tides so yeah i'm going to go ahead and get started
but basically you can kind of see what i'm doing here pretty simple stuff just a squeeze in a rock
that's all it is a squeeze in a rock and everything should come off nicely
as a unit there we go okay of course these weren't tied in so we have to individually
take these are going to be tricky we'll probably do these with the bracket remover
it's can be a little uncomfortable sometimes so i usually have my patients bite down
on a cotton roll obviously this patient today really doesn't care
so not complaining also i work my i start in the front and i work my way to the sides
to finish it so that way it's not flying around if i just put this down
pretty easy stuff oh look i extracted a tooth too yay
okay and that by the way that can happen if your patient has perio compromised teeth or baby teeth
you do sometimes extract teeth so sometimes if i i mean i do bond baby teeth sometimes um in phase
one patients just for stability but i always make sure they're not gonna you know fall out while in
treatment so i checked the panel and everything like that but you definitely that's done
you definitely want to keep your eye on the roots because you don't want to be by accident
extracting teeth so pretty easy stuff as you can see just going to work our way around the brackets
keep going
you know count the brackets too make sure you didn't drop any you'll want to put like a um
put like a piece of gauze like a two by two or a four by four now another trick you can do is
you can use your finger to stabilize the teeth um not only as a fulcrum it's good for that
but also it makes it like less less discomfort for the patient for sure
all right i know this one's not very climactic so these are all pretty much the same
so hopefully this was helpful for you now ceramic brackets are a whole different animal
you really should whoops did you see that one go flying yeah that's what we don't want um fun tip
make sure that you're using safety glasses um when you do this both you and the patient and whoever's
around because it can fly in your eye so okay so let's talk about the adhesive remover plier
obviously if you've got big chunks of glue it's a very very helpful
uh you can saw that kind of fly off right there just like that okay
very easy to do
you can see me scraping it off you know and whatever's left you can just use a
high speed with a finishing bur to get it off now what i don't want this to be a video
is for people to learn to do this at home on their own because you could really fracture your tooth
you can break your tooth and you most likely won't get all the glue
off your teeth but all right hopefully this was helpful i think two demos was
quite enough but if you'd like to see something else let me know thank you