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#1 Post by **BraceFace12** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:55 pm

Okay so I went in for an adjustment on Wednesday and found out that my overbite had been overcorrected. In other words, the elastics pulled my top teeth back too far. Now, the elastics are being used to push them back the way they came from, ofcourse, not all the way. So anyways, I haven't heard of this happening a lot, but I'm sure it does. Have any of you had similar experiences?

#2 Post by **HONEYGIRL** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:01 pm

BraceFace12 wrote:Okay so I went in for an adjustment on Wednesday and found out that my overbite had been overcorrected. In other words, the elastics pulled my top teeth back too far. Now, the elastics are being used to push them back the way they came from, ofcourse, not all the way. So anyways, I haven't heard of this happening a lot, but I'm sure it does. Have any of you had similar experiences?

hmm....... intresting. I would like to know more about this too. I wonder how common this happens?

#3 Post by **Dark_angel** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 12:45 am

Sometimes orthos do overcorrect things because when the braces are taken off the teeth will move back a little. So after this has happened a perfrect result is achieved.

#4 Post by **TuZZi** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:44 am

My first experience with elastics, actually over-corrected the movement of 3 teeth (2 on one side, and 1 on the other) to the point that I had to stop using the elastics all-together, after only a month. The elastics on the one side created a scissor-bite in my right front corner, and pulled one tooth too far right and created a huge gap on the other side.

It was a good thing I didn't wear my elastics as much as I was supposed to.... at only wearing them 75% of the time, I didn't do as much damage as I could have.

#5 Post by **ASUDEVIL23** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:07 pm

Yes, I've had this happen and it drove me NUTS. Having listened to everything my ortho said I realized I had overdone it and it basically pushed me back a MONTH! I know a month isn't a lot of time but that's seriously terrible if you consider I followed every instruction.

#6 Post by **hannah164** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:40 pm

I have a friend who had a slight underbite and he wore elastics to fix that all the time! I don't think I ever saw him without his elastics! At his last adjustment his ortho told him to stop wearing his elastics because they had overcorrected and given him an overbite instead!

My ortho was trying to bring down my impacted canine and he had pulled too hard on it and had brought it down too long so he had to bend the wire back up so it wa go up a little bit as it was interfering with my bite!

Overcorrection can happen and it is such a pain! I guess we have to just trust our orthos to fix their mistakes! lol

~hAnnah

Top Braces: April 28, 2004
Bottom braces: November 16, 2005

#7 Post by **BraceFace12** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:00 am

thanks for everyones replies

#8 Post by **tokidoki** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:10 am

My orthodontist's assistant told me that they were going to overcorrect intentionally. Since teeth always want to go back to their original places, especially as adults, it'll even out in the end. My midline is off to the right and I guess I'm going to wear elastics until it's over to the left a little. I'm already centered ^_^_^

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