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my story -- http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=25125
February 29 2008 - initial consultation, records and spacers
March 17 2008 - molar bands
March 20 2008 - 2 upper 1st premolar extractions
April 17 2008 - upper jaw braced
April 24 2008 - lower jaw braced
May 1 2009 - primary left central incisor extraction
If you mean the wire popping out of the last bracket, I have had that happen to me. My ortho said it meant I had been either eating hard food or taking too big mouthfuls of food. She said this happened with the softer archwires and if it was a harder archwire, instead of the wire popping out, there was a risk of a bracket coming off.
She wasn't saying I had to change what I was eating between soft & hard archwires. I should have been taking more care - it just happened that at the stage this happened, the more flexible wire took most of the impact.
If you get the back of your thumbnail against the end of the wire, you should be able to push it back to where it belongs. I had to do that, frequently. The wire slides through the slot in the brackets. After all. that is what it did in order to end up in the wrong place.
Huon
