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At Sudbury Orthodontics, our mission is to help people throughout Parry Sound, Espanola, and Sudbury, ON achieve beautiful, healthy smiles through comprehensive orthodontic treatment. But achieving a new smile requires more than just visiting our office to get braces or Invisalign: you'll also have to take great care of your teeth at home.

Seeing your new smile for the first time after treatment with braces or Invisalign is an incredibly exciting moment. After all, you've worked hard for months to achieve your new smile, and now it's finally yours to keep! But what many patients don't realize is that your orthodontic journey doesn't end on the day you get your braces off or finish your last Invisalign aligner.

If you’ve been thinking about getting braces, but only on one arch, the answer is yes you can! However, single arch orthodontic treatment is not for everyone. For most, it’s usually not the most ideal treatment plan and is not as common as you may think.

At Sudbury Orthodontics, we’re proud to be the premier choice for orthodontic treatment in and around Sudbury, Parry Sound, and Espanola, ON. We are able to accommodate our patients with a variety of treatment options, including braces and Invisalign. However, we understand it can be difficult to understand when it’s time to for you or your child to see an orthodontist for the first time.

For those who take their oral hygiene seriously, you may have asked yourself, which should come first ― brushing or flossing? Those in favor of brushing first believe that this removes a majority of plaque and food particles, allowing the floss to finish up with the detail work, as well as forcing any remaining fluoride from the toothpaste between the teeth. However, those that argue flossing should come first believe this better loosens plaque and food particles, allowing them to be brushed away easier and letting the toothpaste reach the spaces in between. But what is the true order in which these crucial oral hygiene practices should be completed in order to receive maximum benefit? First, let’s make sure we understand good brushing and flossing practices!

Getting braces is an exciting first step in getting the healthy, great looking smile you’ve been dreaming of! At Sudbury Orthodontics, we excel in providing personalized and effective orthodontic treatment plans that address all your orthodontic needs in order to help you achieve a radiant new smile. During your braces treatment, it’s very important to follow your Sudbury, Espanola, or Parry Sound orthodontist’s advice in order to get the great results you both want ― including avoiding eating certain foods while wearing braces. Your Sudbury, orthodontist will help you understand which foods should be avoided while undergoing braces treatment, and give you some specific examples. However, to help you better understand what foods to avoid and why it’s important, continue reading below.

The team at Sudbury Orthodontics is dedicated to perfecting the appearance and health of your teeth and smile. Through our orthodontic treatments, such as braces or Invisalign, we are able to create beautiful smiles and patient confidence. We have always understood the value, importance and power of orthodontic treatment and the creation of a beaming smile, but do you?

Here at Sudbury Orthodontics, our orthodontic team knows the ins and out of surviving your first week with braces! With three office locations in Sudbury, Espanola, and Parry Sound, ON, Dr. David D’Aloisio and our staff have helped hundreds of first time braces wearers get through the initial phase of getting used to their newly bonded brackets! The most difficult part of getting new braces can be enduring the first seven days, as your body is starting to get used to the new pieces of metal and wires inside your mouth.

Back to school can be an exciting time for both parents and children. As we complete all our checklists in preparation for starting the school year, one important checklist that should also be checked is the “Orthodontic Action Plan”. Having a plan can help reduce any anxiety about some of the unknowns that can happen with braces.

Summer is full swing and you’re finally getting your long-awaited chance to enjoy some time off, whether you choose to go on adventure and travel the world or just kick back and relax at home. Regardless of how you spend your vacation, if you’re going through orthodontic treatment with braces, surviving the scalding heat of the summer sun isn’t the only thing you need to worry about. Taking great care of your braces and your smile to keep them clean and healthy is essential if you want that new smile of yours to be flawless when you get those braces off, but summer vacation has a tendency to complicate things. Whether it’s delicious foods that can threaten your braces, or breaking from your normal day-to-day schedule, it’s easy to get wrapped up in everything there is to enjoy during summer. That’s why your local Sudbury, Espanola, and Parry Sound, ON orthodontic experts here at Sudbury Orthodontics are here with this helpful guide to caring for your braces during vacation.

When you’re looking for a Sudbury, Parry Sound, or Espanola orthodontist, we at Sudbury Orthodontics will be glad to help with our advanced orthodontic treatment to give you a straighter smile. While some people may just think that the only benefit of having a straight smile is that their teeth will be more appealing to look at, we’d like to tell you that’s not true. While orthodontics will absolutely give you a more aesthetically pleasing smile, that’s not the only benefit that our Sudbury braces can provide. We’d like to go over just a sample of the many benefits that a straight smile can offer you.

If you are planning on taking a vacation this summer, we ask that you let us know ahead of time so that we may schedule your summer appointments more efficiently. We also encourage patients and their parents to be proactive in determining when they make their summer appointments.

When it comes to raising children, there are many old wive’s tales, and books, blogs and advice so numerous it can make your head spin. It can be hard to know what is opinion versus what is fact. But when it comes to your child’s smile, there is one thing that is true – using a pacifier too long can, in fact, wreak havoc on your child’s smile.

The holidays are almost here, and while we're all looking forward to some time spent relaxing and reconnecting with loved ones, the holidays present a unique challenge for those wearing braces. That's because many of the foods and sweets we love to indulge in during the holiday season pose a major danger to the brackets, wires, and bands of braces and orthodontic appliances. To help out, here are a few tips for making it through the holidays without breaking your braces.

Did you bite into a gingerbread man that was a bit too crunchy? Or was that candy cane stickier than you anticipated? There’s no need to fret in the midst of an orthodontic crisis if you’re a Sudbury Orthodontics patient, because orthodontist Dr. D’Aloisio offers timely emergency care services.

Now that the new school year is underway, many of our Sudbury Orthodontics patients are getting excited about playing organized sports. We are proud of our student-athlete patients and love seeing them excel at their favorite sports! However, playing sports does pose a risk to teeth and braces. This is why we'd like to use this blog post to talk about the importance of wearing a protective mouthguard when playing sports.

We are excited to offer PROPEL technology in our practice. PROPEL stimulates bone remodeling, which allows the teeth to move faster and more predictably into their ideal position.

Orthodontic retainers are the devices that orthodontists give patients to minimize the movement of their teeth after the braces have been removed. Keep in mind retainers are forever! So since you’re going to need a retainer from now on, let’s talk about how to keep it clean.

By now, everyone knows that smoking is bad for you. But the truth is its broad-reaching health effects are not all known by everyone. This is especially true of oral health. Smoking can have serious repercussions in this regard. To give you a better idea of how smoking can affect your oral health, our team have listed some issues that can arise.

Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) describe a set of conditions that involve trouble with your jaw and face muscles. They result from a problem in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which is a hinge that connects the temporal bones, in your skull in front of each ear, to your jaw. The joint enables you to talk, yawn, and chew by letting your mouth move.

What is the relationship between the wisdom teeth and the teeth getting crooked after braces?

Because lower front teeth seem to start getting crooked about the same time that the wisdom teeth come in, they have always gotten a bad “rap.” Are the wisdom teeth to blame or is it just an unfortunate coincidence? Here’s what we know. In research done at the University of Iowa by department head Dr. Tom Southard, it was found that the wisdom teeth DO NOT exert enough pressure on the teeth in front of them to cause them to get crooked. His research involved placing sensors between the teeth that compared the pressures with and without wisdom teeth. There was no difference.

MMMMM ……nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger – enjoy the fragrance of Thanksgiving cooking without all the fuss. These cookies combine the moisture of pumpkin puree and the fun of chocolate chips. They’re even softer the second day (if you can wait that long), after they’ve been placed in a tightly-sealed container.

This is one of the most common questions that is asked at Sudbury Orthodontics and, unfortunately, it does not have a simple answer. Just as every patient we see is unique, so is their treatment plan. Some patients have very simple problems which require less appliances and time, while other cases are much more complicated and may require multiple appliances and phases.