) to make room for my tipped-in molar. Part of the rig was an elastic, worn 24-7, running from my upper canine to my first premolar, and hooked around the bracket of my bottom canine. This is (supposedly) to keep my front teeth from shifting so that my molar can be pushed back.My concern is this: I've only had this rig a week, and the force of the elastic (they're Heavy, H3) around the bracket on my lower canine has already separated it from my incisors (see the gap in the picture). This happened within 3 days!
In addition, the lower premolar with the hook-bracket seems to be twisting with the force of the elastic, when it was straight before.
Mind you, I'm a chemist, not an orthodontist, so this could be normal/expected. It's just very unsettling. To set my mind at ease, I drove 45 minutes to the ortho's office this morning ... and discovered that they weren't in today!!
I'm not supposed to return until May 17th, and I'm worried that this elastic will screw up my teeth even more before then, so I'll have a tipped molar they can't yet go after AND two teeth that are now misaligned!
Any words of consolation?
