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Medicine required during braces
Hello doctor ,
I have braces on my teeth and dentist is providing me medicine lycopene, antibiotics, calcium, pre biotic & pro biotic and multi mineral soft gelatin capsule.
Dentist told me to take each medicine twice daily.
I am not capable of taking that much medicine due to financial problems. So, please let me know the medicine that can be ignore during braces.
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The multimineral, lycopene, prebiotic, probiotics, calcium can all be included in your diet.
Antibiotics has to be taken for a specific time and that needs to be discussed with your doctor.
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include soups, juice and healthy food, liquids can also give all the nutrition required if you have trouble eating/chewing
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Tomatoes are good source of lycopene, curd/chaas/cheese/milk is good source of calcium probiotics
almond, onion, garlic, beet are good source of prebiotics
fermented food naturally contain probiotic
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Take medication as prescribed your dentist. If you cannot afford,discuss regarding this with the prescribed dentist.
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Hello
Orthodontics treatment do not require any kind of medication except pain killers if there is any kind of tenderness or so.
Tab of calcium can be taken if u do not take sufficient calcium in ur daily diet.
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for future queries contact me
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Dr. Abhishek Kumar
Dentist
5 yrs exp
Bangalore
In ortho treatment we don’t prescribe medicine ..u can take calcium tablets for healing of bone that’s it ..if u want
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Consult doctor n tell u can’t afford medicines
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