how often do you get your wire changed???

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#1 Post by **betharoo** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:57 pm

i've had my braces almost 5 months and i'm still going on the same archwire...is that noram....i go back to day inlike 45 min to get them tightnend i guess i'll see what happends! well, how often do you get new archwires?

#2 Post by **Avarik** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:10 pm

I had my wires changed at the first adjustments after I got braces on. Since, then (3 appts now?) I've had the same wires on the top and bottom.

So, I guess it just matters where you are in the procedure, and how everything is going.

#3 Post by **swan** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:16 pm

I got my second wires at my third adjustment after about 4 months. I have lost track how many wires I've had (You can track it if you go through my blos - see my www link), but it's always a few months until one or both wires are changed.

#4 Post by **betharoo** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:29 pm

well they just put a new wire on bottom and kept the same one on top but my teeth hurt like @$#%@$#^ lol...i gues that could explain it!

#5 Post by **hannah164** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:34 pm

I almost think my ortho is lazy and doesn't want to change wires unless its absolutely necessary!

I really haven't gotten that many new wires!

I probably have only gotten 3-4 maybe 5 different wires on top in 21 months! ANd on the bottom I've only gotten 1 for the past almost 3 months!

Hopefully I'll get a new wire on Saturday at my next adjustment!

Good luck! Hope your teeth feel better!

-Hannah

Top braces: 4/28/04
Bottom braces: 11/16/05
Next Adjustment was 1/11/06 but now is rescheduled to 1/21/06

#6 Post by **Chris** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:15 pm

They only change the wire (type and size) if they need to do something different.

Don't worry, its still working, manipulating your teeth.

#7 Post by **Tara971** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:18 pm

I've had mine changed twice in the past year and 3 months, and i'm now in my "last wire" which is what i'll have until my debanding, and I've had this for about 7 months now.

#8 Post by **fins** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:20 am

KK-
I just had a wire change and it hurt quite a bit for at least a week which is a pretty long time. Actually, one side kept hurting for a while, enough to make me think maybe something was wrong but it stopped eventually. Nothing you can't live through though. As long as you know it WILL stop hurting. I haven't been able to figure out what the wire is doing though. I can't see anything happening.

#9 Post by **cookie** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:28 am

I've had 4 wires both top and bottom now (they've both got 18x25s just now)

My top arch got a new wire at each adjustment utnil April last year - have had the same wire on top since then, my bottoms were a bit slower - I didn't get a new wire until my second adjustment.

#10 Post by **nick_uk** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:50 am

Got a new one about every 2months, on the last one now.

#11 Post by **Snow** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:37 pm

In the past 5 months and 3 weeks, I only had one different wire on top, and the bottom wire stays the same the whole time. But yesterday I went for my fourth adjustment and most of my teeth have power chains instead of ligatures on them.