Brace Colors: 5 Essential Tips for Choosing the Color of Your Braces

If you’ve been considering braces for your teeth, explore the top 5 essential tips for choosing the right color. Complementing hues will only bring out your bright eyes and glorious skin.

Celebrating an Event

You might have an exciting event coming up that can be reflected in your La Mesa braces, such as:

• Birthdays
• Sports events
• Seasonal holidays

The color added to braces isn’t a permanent one. It’s created by the rubber bands added during your appointment to hold your wire into place. These rubber bands are changed at each appointment.

Accentuating Your Highlights

At Stormberg Orthodontics, we want you to feel confident with your appearance. Braces can enhance your look with the proper color choices.

For example, people with olive skin tones and green eyes might benefit from purple braces. Dark skin tones look spectacular with orange or gold braces.

Brace colors usually correspond with skin tone or eye color, but hair color also plays a part. If you’re blonde, try a darker braces color and vice versa.

Choosing a Subtle Look

When you have braces in the South Bay, placed as an adult, you may not want too much color added to the brackets, we have silver or clear rubber bands for a more subtle look. Stormberg Orthodontics has a color palette for adults too.

Consider silver or gray hues, for example, to help the brackets blend into your smile and they do not pick up coffee/tea or saffron stain as easily as clear or white rubber bands. It looks clean and neat, which works well when you need to meet with clients or offer a presentation at work.

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Avoiding Problematic Colors

There are a few colors that you shouldn’t select for your braces. White or yellow colors won’t neatly contrast with the teeth; they’ll look yellower than normal. Avoid colors that can be mistaken for food, such as brown, or green. All of these problematic colors should be swapped out for more attractive selections. On the other hand, some patients have team/school colors they want to show proudly, so pick whatever makes you smile! You will have another color choice at your next appointment!

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