Our mission is to create beautiful, healthy smiles that improve oral health, encourage personal confidence, and transform lives. For more than 40 years, Resler Orthodontics has been a respected provider of the finest quality orthodontic care for patients in the Saginaw Bay Region. We are dedicated to working with you and your family in order to provide a fun, convenient, exciting orthodontic experience, and we pride ourselves on building lasting relationships with our patients as well as our community.

Caring for your orthodontic appliances as well as your teeth and gums while you undergo orthodontic treatment at Resler Orthodontics is a team effort. Use this page (as well as our information on Oral Hygiene) as a resource to help establish good hygiene habits while we help youachieve a beautiful, healthy smile!

For most situations, common sense will tell you what to avoid. Hard foods, sticky foods, and foods high in sugar must be avoided. Hard foods can break or damage wires and brackets, and sticky foods can get caught between brackets and wires and also loosen or break them. Minimize sugary foods, as they cause tooth decay and related problems. Nail biting, pencil and pen chewing, and chewing on foreign objects should also be avoided.

We are pleased to offer our patients orthodontic-specific mouthguards for sports activities. Unlike boil-and-fit mouthguards, which fit tightly and prevent tooth movement, our mouthguards are designed to fit around orthodontic appliances and allow bite correction and tooth alignment to take place.

Brush your removable retainers every day as a part of your regular brushing and flossing schedule. Because food particles and plaque can accumulate on your appliance just as they do on your teeth, soak your retainers daily. Dissolve a Polident, Efferdent, or a similar denture-cleaning tablet in a glass of tap water at room temperature, and soak your retainers as needed. Your retainers will taste better, and you will help to prevent plaque and bacterial accumulation.