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#16 Post by **PrincessMelody** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:07 pm

Mine were place directly and one by one. I have traditional metal as well.

#17 Post by **vivi21** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:28 am

mine were also placed one by one, & i also have the self-ligating brackets

#18 Post by **jcdamon3** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:25 pm

one by one here -

#19 Post by **Svensk Tiger** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:18 pm

Mine were placed one by one. I'm in the UK.

Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:12 pm

One by one, traditional metal. And almost everytime I go for an adjustment some are taken off and repositioned. The most replaced in one visit....Eleven.

#21 Post by **phenyx** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:46 pm

My were placed one-by-one and I have Damon braces. I laughed out loud in the orthos office because he'd already placed 3 brackets before I realized what he was doing!

#22 Post by **Amburly** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:17 pm

One by one and I have Inspire Ice on the top and metal on the bottom.

#23 Post by **Rickysa** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:15 am

Meryaten wrote:Hey, doc - I am sure this is something over which there are many different opinions, but what are your feelings about indirect bonding?

I love it

!

It is purely personal preferance of the doc....the braces wind up in the same place on the tooth, I was just curious how many docs are doing the indirect thing out there...

It takes more lab work as models are made, the braces glued on the model, and then a thin "mouth guard" like tray is made using the model with the braces...

the tray is removed with the braces in it, and then placed on the patient's teeth a quadrant at a time....Shine the blue light to cure the glue, remove the tray, and poof....you're braced up!

Thanks to all that responded!

Dr. S

#24 Post by **Metamorphosis** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:48 am

Im in seattle and mine were done quadrant by quadrant. I'm not sure what that means, as far as the terminology!

They were all on so QUICK.

#25 Post by **Lisa65** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 10:56 am

One by one so far. I have traditional metal on the bottom and will probably have the same on the top, although I can have ceramics if I wish.

#26 Post by **gunter8888** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:38 pm

So far I only have my bottoms and they were done one-by-one. Not a big deal at all.

There seems to have been quite a few stories on here of folks who had the indirect bonding losing brackets soon after placement. Not sure if there is a correlation or not.

#27 Post by **science teacher** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:47 pm

1. Surgically expanded live in KS, USA

2. brackets will go on 1by1

3. I'll have ligs.

Kim

#28 Post by **hippyhippo** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:12 am

Indirect (one upper tray, one lower tray) here. It was amazing how fast it was. However one bracket wasn't attached very well, so the ortho had to reapply that one directly.

#29 Post by **starryadora** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:06 pm

direct..self-ligating

#30 Post by **jennielee81** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:09 pm

That would be a turn off, Maryaten, but mine did not require any additional impressions.

I will add (for Dr. Rick) that my indirect bonding was done in 2 parts. Upper and lower instead of quadrents.

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