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Update! Went to the orthodontist and he attached the chain to my tooth with a kind of brace glue. Next morning it had fallen down again -___- Rang them up again and they said I can come in this afternoon to remove the chain. But now I'm just worried that they're not going to be able to pull the toot...

What about denture glue? Do you think that could work too? I'll try ringing up the orthodontist tomorrow and see what they think. Definitely can't wait 3 months with it hanging down like this D:

[quote="djspeece"]Wow that would be difficult. I wonder if applying some orthodontic wax to the end of the chain and jamming it between two of your upper teeth might do the trick. You'd probably have to experiment a bit to see which two teeth would enable you to eliminate slack in the chai...

[quote="Siobhan"]I'd think your ortho should be able to attach it to your archwire - even if it's not pulling - just to get it out of the way. After my exposure surgery, the surgeon attached the chain to the archwire with something that looked like a black twist tie). There was a lot of sl...

Hey everyone, new poster here! I had surgery a week ago to attach a chain onto my impacted left canine. It's now just dangling down in the middle of my mouth which is problematic :P I have to wait 3 months before they can do anything! The operation went okay but I ended up with the left side of my f...

Hi everyone, Last Thursday I had an operation to attach a gold chain to my left canine that won't come down! My right canine also used to be impacted, but a year ago I had an exposure operation that caused the tooth to just move down on it's own. The chain is in the middle of the roof of my mouth, a...