Does everyone have to use elastics in their treatment?

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#1 Post by **Jay Tea** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:21 pm

For linguals

#2 Post by **lionfish** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:54 am

I did.

What do you wanna know?

#3 Post by **Jay Tea** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:59 am

Does everyone need to use elastics in treatment was the question

#4 Post by **saps** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:34 am

Everyone? I don't know. I know I did.

#5 Post by **RenaissanceGurl** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:54 am

Not everyone wearing labial/ "normal" braces needs elastics, and the same applies to linguals. As far as I understand it, elastics are often used to correct bite issues, for linguals, traditional braces and also for Invisalign (I know a couple of Invisalignees who had elastics at some point during their treatment).

However, if your question aims at whether YOU will have elastics, too, the only one who can answer that is your ortho...

#6 Post by QT » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:14 pm

My ortho told me that I won't be using elastics on me as he said adults are more inclined to not comply with them.

I can imagine as will be embarrassing if having to do a talk at a meeting or dating! Instead he will be using TADs to correct my bite and alignment of teeth. So its practiacally invisible.

#7 Post by **koksy** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:29 am

I had 2 elastics on one side and 1 on the right. Didn't have an issue wearing them as they actually made the brackets more comfortable on my tongue. You can't see them unless youre walking around with your mouth wide open all the time in which case people may think you have spaghetti stuck in your braces...