Patient Information & Care Guides | Dr Jarred Lee Ortho, JB
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Patient Information

Guides for your treatment

Short, plain-language leaflets covering procedures that may come up during your treatment — to read at home, alongside what's discussed at your consultation.

Fixed Appliances

Mini-Screws (TADs)

What a Temporary Anchorage Device is, why it may be recommended as part of your treatment, how it's placed, and how to care for it.

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Braces

Braces Care & Tips 101

Everything you need to know to keep your treatment on track — eating with braces, daily cleaning, and what to do if something breaks.

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Aligners

Clear Aligner Care & Tips 101

Getting the most out of your aligner treatment — wear time, eating and drinking, cleaning, and storage and handling.

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Palatal Expansion

Understanding Palatal Expansion

What RPE and MARPE involve, why expansion may be recommended, what you'll feel, and caring for your expander.

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Retainers

Retainer Care & Instructions

Your wear schedule after treatment finishes, caring for removable and fixed retainers, and what to look out for if a fixed retainer debonds.

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More guides are on the way

  • This library will grow to cover other parts of treatment as they come up — such as elastics, retainers, and appliance care.
  • If you have a question that isn't covered here yet, just ask at your next appointment or message Dr. Jarred directly.
External Resource

Recommended reading from the British Orthodontic Society

The leaflets above are written by Dr. Jarred specifically for his own patients. The BOS also publishes a wide library of independent, patient-facing information covering topics beyond what's listed here — official, regularly updated, and free to read directly from their site.

Topics covered by the BOS patient information library

• Orthodontic Treatment (overview) • Fixed Appliances • Removable Appliances • Functional Appliances • Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) • Mini-Screws (TADs) • Aligners • Retainers • Headgear & Protraction Headgear • Adult Braces • Food and Drink with Braces • Oral Health & Caring for Your Child's Teeth • Mouthguards • Digit (Thumb/Finger) Sucking Habits • Impacted Canines • Interproximal Reduction (IPR) • Surgically-Assisted Expansion / Orthognathic Treatment • Oral Piercings • Smoking & Orthodontic Treatment • Risks of Orthodontic Treatment • First Visit & Under-10s Guide

These are official BOS publications, hosted and maintained on their own website — we link out to them rather than reproducing copies here, so you always land on the current version.

Browse the BOS Patient Leaflet Library →
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