Allergic to nickel

[cbushnaq]

Has anyone had an allergic reaction to the nickel that is used in the archwire?

Thanks,
Cindy

[cbushnaq]

I will not have them put on until Sept 6th. What type of allergic reaction did your sister have? I have found that I am sensitive to some jewelry that has nickel in it. I think it might have something to do with the amount of nickel in it.

[Pirate Wench]

I am allergic to jewlery as well. I can only wear gold to I break out in a rash.

I told my ortho about the allergy before the brackets were placed and he asked if I wanted to try the regular archwires and switch if I started to have a problem. He said usually you will start to react to them right away. He said usually your gums will get swollen and your lips could get puffy.

I agreed to try the regular archwires first. So far I haven't had any kind of reactions. I have had them for over 2 months and had 2 different archwires.

Hopefully, you don't have any issues with the archwires if you use the regular archwires.

Good luck.

[Way Too Old For This]

Interesting. I am very allergic to jewelry. Especially on my neck. I didn't think I was allergic to my braces but this post got me thinking because everytime I get a teeny tiny scratch on the inside of my lips they swell up so big I can't hardly talk. I mean I look like I got punched right in the mouth. It usually lasts about 3 days. And I can taste the metal in my mouth almost all the time.

Haven't noticed my gums getting swollen though. Come to think of it, I get the swollen lip thing after every arch wire change. Hmmmm.

[Alison]

Hi..

strangely enough...Im really allergic to metals in everything too, buttons, earrings, jewelry, clasps on shoes and sandals etc...I can only wear pure silver and gold...

But when I wore braces apart from the usual initial soreness when first being fitted with a brace I never had any problems with my archwire or brackets?

Good Luck with yours!

[Sarah22]

Well I'm allergic to Nickle and was very worried about the metal in my mouth. My ortho consulted a lot of other experts and they all agreed that it was ok to put metal with nickle in it in my mouth as the mouth is not a place where allergic reactions like that occur, only on the skin.

So I got normal archwire and so far so good, no hassle.

[Idislikebraces]

I'm allergic to Nickle nd my ortho put clear ceramics on top nd metal on bottom nd no irritation has happened! I've had em for a yr!

[Silverwolftec2006]

When I went to my Ortho office they put me in Titanium wires and they have to use non-latex based gloves because of my allergies to latex. Because I have nickel related allergies noted in my medical file they used special metal brackets that were designed for persons with metal allergies and I have had absolutely no problems..