Dog ate retainers

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#1 Post by **river** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:01 am

no really he did eat my retainers !!! It happened last night i was eating just before so i left them on my bed side table and then i went into another room to fix the telephone wire as my dad ripped it out the wall with his feet cuz he didnt see it

even thought i said mind the wire

, and when i went back to my room i found a cuddly toy where my retainers should of been !!!!!

im being completly honest it was like the dog traded his toy for my retainers , what made it even worse was he took them both and i found bits all over the house

iv just rang up the dentist and he said come today at 11:40 and that it was going to cost me Â£118 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Â£59 for the bottom and then Â£59 for the top

i just cant stop

#2 Post by **thisisme** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:36 am

Aw, I'm sorry that happened to you.

#3 Post by **TumbleDryLow** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:06 am

That is a drag, but at least you know where it went and that it's totally destroyed. In high school I picked thru a Duncan Donut garbage can helping my friend try to find her retainer. We failed. She had put it in a napkin while she ate and then threw the napkin and retainer away. Apparently this is a rite of passage for high schoolers; I've heard variations on the dumpster-diving-for-retainer-story a lot.

#4 Post by **bracedat44** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:47 pm

I have a bite plate and the first thing the ortho said when fitting it was "do you have a dog?" (I don't) and stated that dogs are attracted to the scent and love to chew retainer material!

#5 Post by **switchblades** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:32 pm

bracedat44 wrote:I have a bite plate and the first thing the ortho said when fitting it was "do you have a dog?" (I don't) and stated that dogs are attracted to the scent and love to chew retainer material!

This is exactly what mine said, keep it in ti's case and up high, because pets think they're chew toys (made of a similar plastic type I think, that smells the same).

I'm sorry this happened to you, I was lucky enough to not have that issue growing up...my dog was past the chewing stage and didn't even like plastic chew toys.

#6 Post by **bbsadmin** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:05 pm

There's a story like this is in the book "I Lost My Retainer!"

http://www.dentakit.com/ilomyre.html