Rubber Band Patterns For Braces

Rubber bands work in conjunction with braces to achieve a beautiful smile along with an excellent bite.

Rubber band patterns for braces.

This rubber band pattern helps to grow teeth together. Orthodontic rubber bands also known as elastics are small elastic bands that hook onto your braces from the top teeth down to the bottom teeth. How to use rubber bands on an underbite. You would connect the rubber band to the hook on the back top teeth and stretch the rubber band down to the front teeth on the bottom.

If rubber bands are needed for a portion of a braces. Rubber bands or elastics are generally used to help improve how teeth fit together. With braces we are able to straighten the upper and lower teeth independent of one another. Do note that orthodontic rubber bands are different from the small colored ties also known as o ties or ligatures put on braces to hold the archwire in place.

They are simply small rubber bands that are attached to the braces. Wear the rubber band. Elastics rubber bands in this video i will be answer the question of what are elastics rubber bands and what are they used for e. Rubber bands allow the upper and lower teeth to fit with one another.

This is what rubber bands do. If you have an underbite you will be attaching the bands in the reverse of the overbite. They are also often used to help close spaces or make sure spaces are closing in the right direction and improve cross bites and midlines. Because rubber bands become stretched over time they re often changed at home.