It's been ages since I've posted on here but I really need a rant. I feel awful saying this but I really have lost faith in my orthodontist (I didn't have much to begin with) and am beginning to think he is incompetant and I'm wondering what I've spent all this money on. Here's why:
I was finally given a debanding date of Monday 31st July the last time I went for an adjustment but I didn't let myself get overly excited because he had been sayng to me for the past 3-4 times that he would probably take them off the time after next.
Shortly after my last adjustment though I noticed that a small gap had started to appear between my top 2 front teeth and one of my bottom front ones was becoming very slightly squint
. I wasn't too worried and rang the ortho's assistant and asked her to fit me in for a quick tweek so I could ensure they did come off on the 31st. She told me he was on a 2 week holiday but fit me in yesterday morning. So, I went along yesterday thinking a quick tweek would happen and I would come back next Monday to have them taken off. How wrong I was.I told him of my little problems and he said 'agh, there's a bracket off there!'. I was surprised as it wasn't wobbly, but the clear plastic part had been off for months which he always says doesn't matter. So, instead of just replacing that one, he also decided to take off the 2 others next to it and reposition them (not using new ones, even they were worn!) and change the wire which he hasn't done for months and months. All this a week before they were supposedly ready to come off.
He also put a power chain up the top which I don't have a problem with and put numerous bends in the same wire I have been wearing up there for about a year!
Needless to say he said 'they're not ready I'm afraid, not with that bracket being off.' I'm left feeling extremely frustrated as all he really had to do was re-glue that bracket (my teeth move so fast I could feel that tooth had snapped back into place even before I have walked out the office). Why do all these changes this late in the treatment? AND I'm sure he must have knocked that bracket off because it only started moving after that adjustment!
And if anyone's still reading...
He said to come back in 4 weeks which I thought was long enough but when I went to go and make that appt the assistant said he is on holiday then for 2 weeks (again - and he told me to come back when he was on hol!?!) and the soonest appt was September. By that point I wanted to cry and was feeling very frustrated after thinking I had come to the end of my treatment and told her I can't wait that long!
So, I am going on the 6th August now (even though he thinks they won't be ready) and if they're OK he'll take them off but I somehow I doubt it because my bite is a million times worse than it was before yesterday.
I'm sorry for such a long post and well done to anyone whose survived reading such an essay!! I'm just reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally frustrated
Now if the delay is based on total incompetence rather than finishing work, I can see how the delay would be harder to swallow.
