Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:44 pm
Hi Banana and WOW is right. Let me shed a little light on my progress in Damon 3's:
1. I love them. The only problem I had with them popping off were the ones that were glued onto my gold crowns - I have all four first molars as gold crowns. Three of them managed to popp off twice due to my eating things that were to hard, so I had them banded. No problems since.
2. I have had tremendous trouble with the doors not opening - I manage to make a lot of tartar and it gets into the brackets and keeps the doors from opening. They always tried to open them with a "pick" like instrument. This last time, the orthodontist himself opened them with a new tool that I had never seen before. It was like a pair of wide, but thin sissors. He just went along each bracket and popped each one open without any effort! (Just the visit before last I had to have the lowers replaced with Smart Clips because of the doors). Had he had this tool, I may not have had to have them replaced.
3. My arch has widened and my teeth are not just "tilted" out. Granted, my molars and premolars tilted in slightly to begin with, but the whole area that the teeth are attach too has wideden too - or at least that is what appears to have happened.
4. My bite was crooked - the left side of my lower teeth drop away on and angle. It has levelled out some and the doctor is going to finish bringing them up with elastics starting at my next visit.
5. I think the doctor made since about your speech problem. My mother was telling me that when my older brother was born, the doctors clipped something in his mouth because the doctor said he would have trouble talking later if he didn't have more range of motion... Sorry, I don't know what it was. BTW, I am 52...
6. My Orthodontist just started his own orthodontic journey and it is in DAMON 3's!
I just wanted to you get some positive and negative on the Damon situation from a wearer - not just what the Doctor said.
Good luck in whatever decision you make.
1. I love them. The only problem I had with them popping off were the ones that were glued onto my gold crowns - I have all four first molars as gold crowns. Three of them managed to popp off twice due to my eating things that were to hard, so I had them banded. No problems since.
2. I have had tremendous trouble with the doors not opening - I manage to make a lot of tartar and it gets into the brackets and keeps the doors from opening. They always tried to open them with a "pick" like instrument. This last time, the orthodontist himself opened them with a new tool that I had never seen before. It was like a pair of wide, but thin sissors. He just went along each bracket and popped each one open without any effort! (Just the visit before last I had to have the lowers replaced with Smart Clips because of the doors). Had he had this tool, I may not have had to have them replaced.
3. My arch has widened and my teeth are not just "tilted" out. Granted, my molars and premolars tilted in slightly to begin with, but the whole area that the teeth are attach too has wideden too - or at least that is what appears to have happened.
4. My bite was crooked - the left side of my lower teeth drop away on and angle. It has levelled out some and the doctor is going to finish bringing them up with elastics starting at my next visit.
5. I think the doctor made since about your speech problem. My mother was telling me that when my older brother was born, the doctors clipped something in his mouth because the doctor said he would have trouble talking later if he didn't have more range of motion... Sorry, I don't know what it was. BTW, I am 52...
6. My Orthodontist just started his own orthodontic journey and it is in DAMON 3's!
I just wanted to you get some positive and negative on the Damon situation from a wearer - not just what the Doctor said.
Good luck in whatever decision you make.