Care of veneers after installation

To make the veneers last as long as possible, take proper care of them after installation. It's like taking care of your own teeth, only better!The basic rules of care for veneers and new care are regular home hygiene with a brush and an irrigator. The brush should be soft and the toothpaste with a low concentration of abrasives. To choose the right paste, focus on the RDA — Relative dentin abrasiveness index. According to the DIN EN ISO 11609 standard, toothpastes with an RDA of up to 250 are considered safe, but only for people with healthy teeth.For children's, sensitive teeth and veneers, it is better to choose low-abrasive pastes with an RDA of 20-50.In addition to the brush, it is worth using an irrigator. First, it gently cleanses the composite if you have a composite restoration. Secondly, plaque and food residues accumulate in the area of adhesion of the veneer to the gum. A brush can't handle it here, and an irrigator is easy. Just make sure that the irrigator jet hits the teeth and gums at a right angle. This way, the places where the veneers adjoin the gums will be completely cleaned.Home hygiene does not exclude professional cleaning. Every 6 months, veneers should be cleaned by a therapist or hygienist. Depending on the material and the clinical situation, dentists use AirFlow with glycine and erythritol, polishing strips, brushes with special pastes for professional cleaning.Safety rules for teeth with veneers 1. Adjust your diet. Veneers have an exclusively aesthetic function. Even durable ceramic plates are not designed for cracking nuts, crackers, ice, lollipops, seeds, and hard vegetables. Solid foods should either be excluded from the diet, or learn how to bite and chew solid food with teeth where veneers are not installed.2. Protect your teeth. For fans of power and contact sports, including team sports (martial arts, rugby, fencing, etc.), dentists select protective caps immediately after installing veneers. In training and competitions, they take on the energy of blows and shocks, protecting veneers from damage, and teeth from fractures.3. Avoid products with coloring substances. Composite veneers, especially for the first time after installation, are very sensitive to anthocyanins of red wine and chocolate, turmeric, saffron, beet betacyanins and synthetic food dyes. Ceramics are more resistant — pigmented plaque is easily washed off during cleaning.If the ceramic veneers have darkened, the reason is not in the food: the pigment penetrates into the microcracks of the material and stains it in the places of cementation. You need to go to the doctor and look at the integrity of the plates.Important points: Regularly inspect your teeth and gums. In extremely rare cases, foci of inflammation may occur in the places where the structure adjoins the gums: the gums swell, bleed, move away from the edge of the plate.In any case, self—medication is excluded - a dentist should deal with any signs of gum inflammation and damage to veneers.The information is for informational purposes only.