What is most painful? Spacers, Powerchains,springs,molarband
Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:53 pm
I am just wondering what has been the most painful out of these? I have heard that spacers are the worst and that powerchains are painful also.
I will only be getting 1 spacer on the bottom and 1 on the other side bottom. Since I dont have either of my 3rd molars ,I will not need spacers on either side ,just on one side.
I had powerchains put on the first day in braces and I just went in for my first adjustment and they removed the old powerchains and put on new ones even tighter! I must say the only pain/discomfort I felt was when they were putting on the new powerchains. That only lasted about 1 minute. But Ive been told to expect pain on the following day for several days! But that never happens.
I will be getting my incisors that are not connected to the archwire are getting enough space and one will be connected to the archwire soon. I am wondering if they will remove the entire archwire and put a longer one? The way I see it now there is NO WAY that they can push the archwire way back and connect it to my incisor! That's what they did to my daughter but her incisor was not pushed back so far. She was in alot of pain while they were putting on the archwire but then it calmed down. The archwire of course was crooked but I was totallySHOCKED that it pulled her tooth forward and straightened the archwire within 3 -4 hours!!?
That is awesome! Now my daughter just needs the other incisor moved forward and her teeth will be all straight!
My ortho gave me very hopeful news this week. He said that by Christmas all my top teeth will be nice and straight. I find it hard to believe but he told me " TRUST ME! " So far my adjustments have been every 4 weeks. My next one is the first week of August.
Gennel
I will only be getting 1 spacer on the bottom and 1 on the other side bottom. Since I dont have either of my 3rd molars ,I will not need spacers on either side ,just on one side.
I had powerchains put on the first day in braces and I just went in for my first adjustment and they removed the old powerchains and put on new ones even tighter! I must say the only pain/discomfort I felt was when they were putting on the new powerchains. That only lasted about 1 minute. But Ive been told to expect pain on the following day for several days! But that never happens.
I will be getting my incisors that are not connected to the archwire are getting enough space and one will be connected to the archwire soon. I am wondering if they will remove the entire archwire and put a longer one? The way I see it now there is NO WAY that they can push the archwire way back and connect it to my incisor! That's what they did to my daughter but her incisor was not pushed back so far. She was in alot of pain while they were putting on the archwire but then it calmed down. The archwire of course was crooked but I was totallySHOCKED that it pulled her tooth forward and straightened the archwire within 3 -4 hours!!?
That is awesome! Now my daughter just needs the other incisor moved forward and her teeth will be all straight!
My ortho gave me very hopeful news this week. He said that by Christmas all my top teeth will be nice and straight. I find it hard to believe but he told me " TRUST ME! " So far my adjustments have been every 4 weeks. My next one is the first week of August.
Gennel