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I got braces on Monday. There is something I don't recognize on two of the lower brackets (both are a couple teeth away from the middle). On each one there is a metal rod thing pointing down thats tip is rounded off in a ball.
It looks roughly like this:
{ } -bracket
| -rod
o -ball
I am just curious as to what this exactly is.
EDIT: The drawing didn't turn out that well. Imagine the "rod" and "ball" to be more centered in relation to the bracket.
