Home Care for Temporaries
Temporary Crowns, Bridges, Veneers, fillings are designed to cover your teeth for only a short time. Great care should be taken to clean around these temps in order to make the fitting of your final restorations go smoothly. We recommend using Listerine rinses twice daily. Also, floss by sliding the floss out from between the teeth rather than pulling it up or down, which may dislodge the temporary. If you have veneer or bridge temps, you will need to use a floss threader to access the floss between the teeth.
Your diet should exclude sticky or hard foods. Temporaries are placed on with a cement that is weak in order for us to be able to remove them. This means if you are not careful, you also can remove them. If the temporary does come loose or off, please keep it and call us to have it replaced as soon as possible. The temporaries help hold the teeth in place so that the final restorations fit properly.