HELP! Archwire has pinged out of bracket
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:31 pm
Hi
I was eating a chocolate earlier this evening and felt the archwire ping out of the back bracket on one side of my bottom jaw. I have an extraction gap next to the last bracketed tooth and there was a length of archwire going across the gap which then went through a hole in my last bracket. As I was eating, the pressure downwards form the chocolate forced the archwire out of the hole.
Problem is, I go skiing tomorrow for a week and my ortho is closed on Saturdays. I have called an emergency number but don't hold much hope of hearing back from them before I go.
The wire is not causing me any discomfort at the moment as it is just resting on top of the bracket but I haven't yet tried brushing or eating. I am worried it's going to cause me problems while I am away.
What should I do? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Thanks for your advice.
Serves me right for eating chocolates I guess!!
I was eating a chocolate earlier this evening and felt the archwire ping out of the back bracket on one side of my bottom jaw. I have an extraction gap next to the last bracketed tooth and there was a length of archwire going across the gap which then went through a hole in my last bracket. As I was eating, the pressure downwards form the chocolate forced the archwire out of the hole.
Problem is, I go skiing tomorrow for a week and my ortho is closed on Saturdays. I have called an emergency number but don't hold much hope of hearing back from them before I go.
The wire is not causing me any discomfort at the moment as it is just resting on top of the bracket but I haven't yet tried brushing or eating. I am worried it's going to cause me problems while I am away.
What should I do? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Thanks for your advice.
Serves me right for eating chocolates I guess!!