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never heard of the water thing before...that's news to me!

Hopefully I can help shed some light on this. I just got my braces off a little over a month ago. I had an anterior openbite. I have about every retainer imaginable in my arsenal! lol I have upper and lower bonded retainers from canine to canine...a removable upper Hawley...a Damon splint to wear at...

Guess I am the only one who HAS had speech probs with the bonded retainer. I JUSt got an upper 3-3 (front SIX teeth) bonded retainer 2 almost two days ago and am having a hard time with 's'. lol Just like any retainer though, I should get used to it as time goes on...just sucks right now. He placed ...

No...I don't think they would want you to wait 6 weeks to get that fixed;) That is a long time for that tooth to miss out on movement! Plus, if you have an archwire change scheduled for your next appt. they might not be able to progress to your next archwire if that tootj isn't where they expect it ...

I started working for my orthodontist as an orthodontic assistant after starting treatment as his patient:)

Tongue thrust is definitely one tricky thing to treat...When I first had braces in junior high I had the tongue spurs...they definitely won't teach ya to not let your tongue push! lol

congrats!

wow...that is unbelievable! Thank goodness no one was seriously hurt!

Actually, KK, c-chains would NOT be continued, as they are active.

After removing your c-chain, they lace those same brackets in order to keep spaces from re-opening.

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nice! congrats!

Congrats!

nice progess!

so interesting! thank you for sharing that with us:)