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Dear Dr. Strassner: My orthodontist set me up with some elastics over the weekend (straight up and down elastics from the brackets behind my upper lateral incisors to buttons placed on the faces of my lower eye teeth). She hopes to close my anterior overbite with same. Now, I work in a public facing...

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A used named "Jake" is having it done in Chicago, if I recall correctly. A quick search should turn up his threads.

If you have a partner, and s/he's cool with it, then great. But to the unitiated, linguals are not expected and will deffo kill the passion. I can't see it being any other way. I admit that I am conflicted about the whole process. At the end, I doubt I will think that it was worth the time, the effo...

I don't know why my first ortho never mentioned elastics to me, but a number of other dental professionals have done so since I had iBraces installed. Like many of us on here, I did this because of my ridiculously crowded teeth. In North America, many of the finest females will not look at a chap wi...

Has this happened to anyone else? I was braced in mid-September 2006, and changed to a new ortho in early February 2007 (I had to move for work). My original ortho, a clinical professor of orthodontics, told me that it would take 18 months to complete my treatment. No mention of elastics to close my...

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My ortho is talking about doing this, too, and I can't wait to get out of braces, but she told me that I'm likely going to have to stay in lower lingual braces for some months after my upper aligner is fitted because elastics will need to be used to close my open anterior bite. The only thing that w...

...handles lingual cases, but he doesn't use iBraces. His appliances of choice are made by STB and another manufacturer whose name escapes me at present (a self-ligating system, if I recall correcly.) His practice, Clear Orthodontic Solutions, is located downtown, in Bankers Hall, on the third floor...

...and the iBraces website, Lingualcare.com, still does not list any iBraces certified doctors in the Calgary-area. I hate the idea of travelling hours by road or by air to have my treatment completed. Does anyone reading this post know of ANY orthodontists in the Calgary-area who work with lingual ...

I have had four seperate instances where the cementation failed on brackets:

* two bicuspids, as noted; and
* one molar bracket twice (i.e., same one both times).

The molar bracket debonded despite the fact that I was eating soft foods both times it happened. Troublesome.

Hello, all! I just had iBraces lingual appliances installed a month ago in Chicago, but I may need to move to Calgary for work. The thing is, a search of the iBraces website only lists two orthodontists in all of Alberta as being iBraces associated doctors, and both are hours by car from Calgary. Do...

...while eating. Both in the same area (teeth 28 and 29 in the American system, 1st and 2nd bicuspids/premolars, respectively). Once, while eating a hot dog immediately after treatment, the second today, while eating some sausages. Am I to conclude, then, that encased meats, no matter how soft or ho...