3rd Adjustment Nightmare!
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:22 am
Hello All:
To get caught up on my story please go to viewtopic.php?t=14773&highlight=bracket+replacement
Well I went in for my 4th adjustment and to get several brackets repositioned. As planned the ortho removed 8 more brackets so with the 8 removed from the 3rd adjustment I had to get 16 completely replaced.
This was a long, tedious and painful process. It is true that the ceramic brackets are harder to remove than the metal because they have a tendency to break into pieces, forcing the ortho to do a whole lot more scraping than if you were getting the metal brackets removed. Once all of the old brackets were removed new brackets were placed on along with a thinner wire ( I guess they new that I would not be able to take the thicker wire at this adjustment).
Everything was ok after leaving the ortho and I truly felt no pain because I took pain killers before my appointment.. However 3 hours later I begin feeling the worse pain ever! My mouth is so sensitive I can not even smile because if the air hits my teeth I will be in excruciating pain. It is even hard to drink room temperature water! I have to make the water warm (like almost the same temperate as my mouth 98.6 degrees). It seems as though pain killers are no longer helping so I will just have to ride out the pain. I know it will be ok in a couple of days but this part always sucks!
I did ask the ortho why I needed to get so many brackets replaced. She said they could have been misplaced initially or my teeth could have shifted in a way that they did not anticipate. She could not conclusively say because she was not the ortho who put the braces on. Well just wanted to give everyone an update on my 4th adjustment and the bracket replacements.
Deltawire
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To get caught up on my story please go to viewtopic.php?t=14773&highlight=bracket+replacement
Well I went in for my 4th adjustment and to get several brackets repositioned. As planned the ortho removed 8 more brackets so with the 8 removed from the 3rd adjustment I had to get 16 completely replaced.
This was a long, tedious and painful process. It is true that the ceramic brackets are harder to remove than the metal because they have a tendency to break into pieces, forcing the ortho to do a whole lot more scraping than if you were getting the metal brackets removed. Once all of the old brackets were removed new brackets were placed on along with a thinner wire ( I guess they new that I would not be able to take the thicker wire at this adjustment).
Everything was ok after leaving the ortho and I truly felt no pain because I took pain killers before my appointment.. However 3 hours later I begin feeling the worse pain ever! My mouth is so sensitive I can not even smile because if the air hits my teeth I will be in excruciating pain. It is even hard to drink room temperature water! I have to make the water warm (like almost the same temperate as my mouth 98.6 degrees). It seems as though pain killers are no longer helping so I will just have to ride out the pain. I know it will be ok in a couple of days but this part always sucks!
I did ask the ortho why I needed to get so many brackets replaced. She said they could have been misplaced initially or my teeth could have shifted in a way that they did not anticipate. She could not conclusively say because she was not the ortho who put the braces on. Well just wanted to give everyone an update on my 4th adjustment and the bracket replacements.
Deltawire
![Image](http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10704;96/st/20061212/e/5th+Adjustment/dt/-1/k/9a9e/event.png)