Gishy Goo! Dental Wax Replacements for Orthodontics. Pain Relief, Bubblegum Flavor and Unnoticeable Tooth Colors, 1 Patient Syringe Kit from Ultradent

Do not hesitate to buy this. Look for the listing that's got 5 tubes at a cheaper price each per tube. Is this stuff easy to learn how to use? No. Expect to waste some while you get the hang of it. Is it the best thing for bracket and metal pain? Yes, by far. It requires patience and an understanding this is not like just pressing wax in, it's a polymer. It needs to be blended in tiny amounts, and once mixed you have to learn, "what is 30 seconds too long" to start molding it around your hardware and teeth. Important: keep a blow dryer handy if possible to do a quick drying blast for better adhesion results. This stuff is amazing. When you mix it, it is as sift as warm chewed gum. Put it in the trouble spot, hold it for 2 minutes (yes it will seem long but use that time to so a few lunges or squats! :) And then its hard enough to stay in place. It will harden through the day, but still be easily pried off with fingers or a toothpick. I put this in a few trouble spot in the AM. If I only eat soft foods all day (yogurt, cottage cheese, mashed potatoes, scrambled eggs, green smoothies) then I do not take it out to eat (yay - a huge timesaver). After eating, I swish agressively with Closys (recco by my Periodontist) and then a 3% perioxide swish (common brown bottle) and then water swish. I take the Gishy Goo out at night, do a through cleaning, and depending on if my mouth ulcers are healed, I can usually sleep with nothing in my mouth, since my cheeks are not moving. I rarely get mouth ulcers when using GishyGoo. I do still use wax from time to time when I am going out a lot in public because there are two things not great about Gishy Goo: (1) a very very mild bubblegum smell that goes away after an hour. I hate fake flavor and fragrance and its tolerable. (2) its a soft white/peach color. It's ugly but I do not care... I'm in pain and you folks know what I mean. I don't give AF what I look like when it hurts this much, I want the least pain and hassle. This is that.

This is an amazing product! I only wish it hardened up sooner. Great for pokey wires on your braces. Holds stronger and grips better than gun wax and it is easy to remove. I wish it was cheaper but worth every penny honestly.

As a new braces wearer, I quickly learned that wax really doesn’t do the job for certain issues. I’m so happy I found gishy goo from TikTok. Literally saves me from an awful poking wire. It’s easy to use and actually stays in place even when I eat! Removal is easy as well you just peel it right off

Better than standard wax. Stays on while eating.

This is a really cool alternative to the dental wax they give you at the orthodontist. My son was in a lot of pain from his brackets and the wire sticking out rubbing against his gums. We could not get the wax from the orthodontist so I ordered this. Once you squeeze out a pea size, you mix it together quickly with your fingers and place on brackets. It does harden quickly so you want to put it on quickly. I found it does not stick to the wires though, only the brackets. We found some silicone wax that sticks to the wires that I bought. Price for this was a bit high for the amount you get. My son really liked the flavor of this.

I have a special TMJ wire orthotic in my upper palate that has little posts on each side that stick out really far from my teeth and tend to dig into my cheeks when I talk. Wax wasn't really helping because of the large amount of space between the post and the tooth. The Gishy Goo is a better option for this because I can roll it into a little ball and stick it right on top of the post and once it hardens (which takes about 30 seconds) it generally stays in place pretty well for a lot longer than wax. I did not find that the area had to be completely dry before placement as other users have stated. I was able able to easily remove it later using a dental pick tool that I bought at Walmart. If the Gishy Goo becomes dislodged on its own, however, it's not reusable like wax... you can't just stick it back on. It's a hard rubbery ball at that point and not malleable anymore. Also, I noticed I had a hard time getting both pastes to come out of the tubes evenly at the same rate. The white paste always wanted to come out a whole lot faster than the peach-colored paste. I would have to clamp my finger over the opening for the white paste to get more of the other paste to come out. Gishy Goo only seems to come in a “tooth-colored” version, which ends up looking like I’ve pocketed a piece of peach-colored chewing gum into each cheek when I talk or smile. I wish it was more clear-colored or grayish. And then there’s the price... I just got the tube of Gishy Goo 2 days ago and over half of it is already gone, mostly from a bit of trial and error. If you plan to try this, buy a couple of tubes to start with because you might use most of the first tube just trying to figure out how it works. I plan to use the Gishy Goo for the posts but will use something else, like OrthoDots, for the traditional brackets. This is probably the only way I’m going to be able to afford it.

There’s a bit of a learning curve the first time you use it, but once you get the hang of it, Gishy Goo really saves the day! It has absolutely saved my mouth from the torment of braces, especially those brutal lingual sheaths. Before using it, my tongue felt like it was being shredded. Now it’s finally protected and able to heal instead of being constantly mutilated by sharp hardware. If you’re dealing with orthodontic appliances that wax just won’t stick to, this stuff is a game changer. Gishy Goo is officially part of my orthodontia survival kit.

This stuff WORKS. There's a slight learning curve but this stuff is legit. Once it's on, it's on. All day long, I can eat, drink, talk, even push on it with my tongue and it's not going anywhere. It is VERY noticeable though. Bright, bright white color which just makes my teeth look awful. Luckily I don't need it on brackets that are super visible because it looks like you've got gum caught in your brackets. The flavor isn't strong but it's very artificial and kind of gross, luckily it fades pretty quickly. The directions say "pea-sized" amount. How big is a pea? Bigger than I need to cover my brackets. I squeeze out about 2mm from each side and it's the perfect amount.