Treatment Map
Treatment Map · Stage 4 of 5
Live It: daily life in treatment
This is the stage most people live in longest and the one this site exists for. Every guide here answers a practical question with a table, checklist or decision tree you can screenshot, and each has been assigned to a named clinical reviewer.
- Eating with braces: what you can eat, what to avoid, and how to cut the restWhat breaks brackets, what is safe cut up, and a first-week menu.
- Soreness from braces and appliances: what helps, what to do, and when to callWhy it aches, what settles it, and a decision guide for loose brackets and poking wires.
- Brushing and flossing with braces: the four-minute routine that prevents white marksThe four-minute method, flossing tools, fluoride, and what white marks are.
- Wearing elastics with braces: how, how long, and what happens if you don'tWhat elastics correct, how to hook them, hours per day, and why missed days add months.
- Loose bracket or poking wire: what to do tonight, and what the clinic will do tomorrowPoking wire, shifted wire, loose bracket, loose band, broken tie, lost separator: what to do.
- Sports and mouthguards with braces: what to wear for which sportWhich mouthguard, which sports need one, aligners in sport, and what to do after a hit.
- Playing instruments with braces: brass, woodwind and singingThe two-to-four-week adjustment, lip protectors and wax, and which instruments are hardest.
- Braces at school: lunches, rinsing, elastics and appointmentsLunchbox food, rinsing at school, elastics, gym class, poking wires in class and appointments.
- Travelling with braces or aligners: trips, camps and flightsWhat to pack, timing trips, handling problems away from home, and aligners across time zones.
- Braces colours: how the ties work and how to chooseHow ties work, which colours stain or flatter, and what self-ligating braces do instead.
- Invisalign attachments: what they are, why you need them and what they feel likeWhat attachments are made of, why some teeth need them, visibility, and a lost attachment.
- Invisalign wear time and lost aligners: the 20-hour rule in practiceWhy 20 hours is the floor, counting honestly, and what to do about a lost or ill-fitting tray.
When the end is in sight, Keep It covers debond day and the retainers that follow.
Where Surrey families get this treatment
Guildford Orthodontic Centre
A specialist orthodontic practice in Guildford where Dr. Aly Kanani and Dr. Aida Mesbahi, both Certified Specialists in Orthodontics, provide braces, Invisalign and growth-appliance treatment for children, teens and adults.
The complimentary first visit includes an examination, photographs and a digital scan, with radiographs when indicated, and ends with a written plan and quote. Braces adjustments, aligner checks, emergency visits and retainer follow-up all happen at the same Guildford office.
- Address
- Suite 200 – 10203 152A Street, Surrey, BC V3R 4H6 (Guildford)
- Hours
- Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 5 pm
- Website
- guildfordorthodontics.com
Disclosure: SurreyBraces.com is a treatment guide published by the myORTHODONTIST network, which operates Guildford Orthodontic Centre. The guidance above applies whoever provides your care. Full disclosure.