{"id":21,"date":"2022-01-26T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/index.php\/retainer-tips\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:47:27","slug":"retainer-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/retainer-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Retainer Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tRETAINER TIPS\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<h2><strong>HELPFUL RETAINER TIPS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wear your removable retainer 24 hours a day, including when you sleep. Take it out to eat<br \/>\nand brush only.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a fixed lower retainer, continue to brush and floss like normal. You can push<br \/>\nsuper floss at the gum line and thread it through like you did on your braces.<\/li>\n<li>Your retainer may taste funny at first. This will go away in a few days. It is only because it is<br \/>\nnew!<\/li>\n<li>Your removable retainer may make your teeth sore for a few days. If you have a pressure point<br \/>\non the plastic, please contact us to fix it for you.<\/li>\n<li>Brush the retainer with your toothbrush and toothpaste.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use denture cleaner to soak retainers. The cleaner eats away at the solder.<\/li>\n<li>Brush with toothpaste only!<\/li>\n<li>Always put retainer in the retainer box! NEVER wrap in a tissue or a napkin as it WILL get<br \/>\nTHROWN away!<\/li>\n<li>Do not flip the retainer with your tongue. This can damage your teeth and\/or break the<br \/>\nretainer. The wire can get stuck in your cheek and hurt!!<\/li>\n<li>Do not leave your retainer in the car in the summertime! The car will get too hot and the<br \/>\nretainer could warp.<\/li>\n<li>Do not swim in the retainer.<\/li>\n<li>Do not leave the retainer out with pets around. They smell the saliva and will try to eat it!<\/li>\n<li>BRING your retainer with you to each appointment!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RETAINER TIPS HELPFUL RETAINER TIPS Wear your removable retainer 24 hours a day, including when you sleep. Take it out to eat and brush only. If you have a fixed lower retainer, continue to brush and floss like normal. You can push super floss at the gum line and thread it through like you did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasbraces.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}