How does rotating the teeth really work?

[roxie2519]

okey then

[lau]

Interesting- they are different than mine. BTW Great progress in just 3 months!!

[jem]

Fantastic progress Roxie! It sounds as if you and I were braced at about the same time. I got mine on 3 Jan.

Jem

[gramma2xander]

I just got what the ortho calls rotating wedges,for two of my teeth. They go behind the archwire and are hooked to the outside part of the bracket of the tooth that needs to turn and a lig is on the inside part.

[mudshell1]

I just got what the ortho calls rotating wedges,for two of my teeth. They go behind the archwire and are hooked to the outside part of the bracket of the tooth that needs to turn and a lig is on the inside part.

I just got rotating wedges too. Well, about almost two weeks ago. It'll be interesting to watch them do their magic.

[ArchWired28]

I had a rotated molar and my ortho told me that the wire will derotate it with the help of a correctly placed bracket. Imagine a tooth rotated 2 o'clock and the rest of the teeth at 12. One side of that tooth will stick out more than the other side, and that will mean that a wire will place bigger force on that side until it gradually goes back to 12. Does it make sense? That is how I understand it. Oh and yes, my tooth has derotated in about 4 months.

[MeMeMe321]

When do you start to see any movement its been 7 months and nothing so far! :(

[roxie2519]

Mine started moving in after one month.. she took the rotating wires off ..the second month

[metalmouth93]

[quote="lau"]Hey everyone- went for an adjustment yesterday and she put the flexible wire on all my teeth behind my archwire (so there are two now) and she twisted it. Ay how it hurts! @>@ but she says its to rotate my tilted teeth. I am on my way finally![/quote]

Is yours continuously twisted like a spiral or just like once round each bracket?

[lau]

Hey metalmouth93!
my flexible wire was put behind my thicker wire (around all of my teeth bottom and top) and then it was twisted in the back to get a tight fit and then cut. Here is the link to the picture http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/downloa ... php?id=971

After 4 weeks I went to my adjustment (yesterday) and he didnt do anything to the wire, he said it was coming along and just changed the ligs.

[jem]

These photos show how my left canine has been rotated by brackets and archwires alone. In the first picture I only had brackets as far as my canines and my first two archwires did not move the canines. I then had brackets added to the premolars and the second picture shows the second wire since the addition of the new brackets ( fourth wire overall). The rotation is still not quite complete and I hope to get a rectangular profile archwire at my adjustment next week to achieve that.

Jem

[auco99]

Good timing for this thread to be bumped. Is it possible for a tooth to over-rotate? My ortho put some powerchains on me to rotate a lateral about 8 weeks or so ago. Well, it has rotated, and then some. A few weeks ago it looked like it was in the correct spot, but it has kept moving, and now looks out of place and is really sore. It's kinda starting to move behind my central a bit. It just doesn't seem right to me. This is my first time in braces so I don't really know what is normal.

[jem]

Auco,

I had a chain placed across my central incisors 5 weeks ago to close a gap. The gap closed very quickly but the chain has continued to move the teeth and they are starting to cross.I contacted my ortho to ask about this and her response was that over correction caused by a chain is very common and easily sorted out and there was no need to go in prior to my next adjustment on 27 June.

Hope this helps

Jem

[auco99]

That does help. Thank you, Jem.

[canuck88]

I had to rotate a bicuspid (the 'small molars'), and my ortho did it just be using damon brackets - nothing else. In 4 months it's pretty much rotated 90 degrees....