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getting braces off soon and getting wires on the back of my
hi all.
i'm getting my braces off in a month (and counting every day!). my ortho told me i should get wires placed on the back of my teeth to support and keep them straight for a while. is this normal and has anyone else out there have these on?
its a thin piece of wire that is glued on the BACK of your top and botton teeth. i'm getting the normal retainers and these wires are just extra support i guess. any info on these wires would be great (eg. does it affect anything... and i mean.. anything!)
cheers 22/f
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I have one as well, and you just feel it for the first week or so. Its so annoying! I played with it so much i got a sore on my tongue! After a week I got used to it and I dont even know its there. Its just a pain to floss with it :
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its totally fine! because i have one too! lol but yeah well like the person below me said..you do sometimes get stuff stuck in it..but for me..not very often! i can hardly even tell its there! and it does help keep everything in place! dont worry..it wont affect anything
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The wires are perfectly normal. They are more like a permanent retainer because you can't remove them. I have these wires on the back of my teeth right now, and a lot of people need them. The wires make it harder to floss (easier then braces however) and you should just be careful with sticky foods. Otherwise, theres no problems with it.
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i have that and i must say its sucks... if you can get a retainer on the bottom get that
the main reasons i dont like it is sometimes food gets stuck between your teeth and it hurts because the bar traps it there
and i got mine in the beginning of 7th grade and my ortho said if im lucky ill have it off my graduation senior year (he told me that about 2 monthes ago) and that is normal because i mean you can't wear it any dif. its stuck there and there isnt anything you can do
they arent noticeable and you really cant feel it but i just dont like having it so long and the feel of food getting stuck in there (although it doesnt get jammed in there very often at alL)
i would check out all of your options first.. if you have the option of just wearing a retainer for a few monthes do that.. my sister did that and it worked better for her (she went to a dif ortho) she got her braces off in october and doesnt ever have to wear her bottom retainer again (soo she wore it for like 3 monthes all the time then 3 monthes just at night)
but because you are older you may have to wear the retainer much longer (my sister is only 13) so as i said before check out all of your options and see what they say
i only have mine on the bottom though not the top
and its kinda more than a wire its much thicker on the edges and i would say its more of a bar
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never heard of using wires....retainers work just fine though
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