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When I bite down, the top row of incisors don't meet the bottom row. Is that considered an open bite?

Help! I have no idea what my elastics do! The detailed story is, for this month my ortho asked me to wear an elastic on 3 of my front teeth, looping the top canine, bottom canine, and the tooth next to the bottom canine away from the middle of my mouth. (Sorry, I don't know my teeth numbers.) In oth...