A double safety-pin opener thingy!

[Kodius Champion]

After two springs failed to push my molar back far enough to make room for Wonky Tooth, my ortho's assistant installed one of her "fancy loop wires -- this should do the trick!"

Which means, of course, that if this doesn't work, we're resorting to pliers and a crowbar.

As you can see, the wire is currently bowed. As it attempts to straighten out, it should push those two teeth far enough apart that we can finally go after my tipped-in biscuspid. She gave it a name, but for the life of me I can't remember the actual terminology.

Has anyone seen/had one of these dohickeys before?



Oh, and as you can see, I've got one elastic to keep my teeth aligned so that the molar goes back while the other tooth doesn't move forward and mess up everything else.

Elastics suck.

[SDFD TSchott]

I noticed that you have metallic green ligs to Umm as far as the name of that device goes I don't know but give me a few minutes to find out the name and I will let you know.

Alright after 1 hr of research I haven't found anything that comes close to what I was hoping for so I do appoligize I don't know the answer to the question.

~Tim~

[joney]

Hope it does the trick for you Kodius

[samantha_lou]

I've never seen one of those before, certainly looks interesting! I hope it does the trick for ya!

[shoshiaf]

Has anyone seen/had one of these dohickeys before?

Nope, sure haven't. But I think the Association of Orthodontics should adopt your name for the device; double safety-pin opener thingy just makes so much more sense!

Good luck with your treatment!