Metal Mouth Message Board

They took my essix impressionsn after i had no retainer for a month. I mentioned the tooth that moved back so they made some adjustments to counteract the movement. It seems to have worked!

I have one bottom tooth that moves back everytime i take my retainer out (it's an essix). But when I put it back in, i feel pressure on that one tooth and it always moves right back. I had actually broken my regular hawley retainer and that's when the tooth first started to move. I couldnt get an ap...

Also, I was told that when they remove the lower ceramics, the teeth would chip and even break because of the force used to remove the ceramics. Believe me, after getting my ceramic TWISTED and SNapped off the top, i'm sooooooo glad i had mentals on the bottom.