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I just have a simple box formation but was wondering how wild can some configurations get.

kayakchic wrote:I just have a simple box formation but was wondering how wild can some configurations get.

I think Clo is still the reigning king of elastics. He had 11 at one stage and he posted a pic some time back.

Thanks lionfish ! You even remembered my "great 11" !

So, kayakchic, are these "wild" enough :



There are 11 elastics in there : 4 triangles left, 4 triangles right, 2 class-2
elastics and 1 (invisible here, on second molars left) crossbite elastic.

And this one wasn't bad either :



4 box elastics, 2 class-2 elastics and 2 lower arch "wideners". Not so many
here, but compensated by a ... headgear.
Yes, I was the reason there was a global shortage of elastics some time ago.
So sorry about that.

no matter how many times I see the configs on Clo.....I just can't beleive it

I just have 2 elastics.....from top premolars (both sides) to second last bottom molars (both sides).

Last time I had 2 elastics in triangle formation.....top premolar and 1st molar (both sides) to bottom premolar (both sides).

That is as exciting as I have gotten so far.

Clo definitely wins the elastic competition, but this one of Gemgal's looked pretty impressive too.

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That one is definately impressive too....

Wow that is amzing Clo, You've got guts to go through with that treatment. How did you eat, talk etc??

Thanks !

Eating was no problem. I just needed to take them all out and then place them all
back in. After a while one gets quite handy doing this. Talking was not a problem
either. Some anecdote. When I had this configuration, there was this moment when
all neighborhood people come together. I was there too, and this old lady kept telling
me to have another delicious biscuit she had there. I thought, my god, I can only
open my mouth about half an inch. What biscuit is not bigger than that. And with some
effort it did "go in". After some biscuits and speaking a lot, my jaws were very tired that
evening ...

CLO:
those elastic things look so crazy!!!!! It seems that your teeth are pulled in all directions. I had a crossbite elastics when i was a kid between one apper and one lower molar. It fixed the crossbite but my molars are tipped.
I don't know if I could go to public with your kind of elastics...

I don't know the name of all my teeth. I'm just wearing one elastic right now. It goes from my top front right tooth and stretches diagonally across to one of my lower left teeth. I'm supposed to wear it all the time, but since I think it looks ridiculous (and I can't talk as well, and I'm a teacher so I have to do a lot of talking!) I only wear it at night.

I'm at the end of my treatment, but I've had a couple different elastic configs. I've had the classic box and the one I've had the most often was when they would stretch from my back teeth forward.

Wow Clo, that is crazy. Between brushing, flossing, and reinserting all those elastics how did you ever find time to do anything else!?

Are elastics a standard part of everyone's treatment at some point or does it just depend on each person's bite?

All that rubber n metal must been hard how long did u have it

uote="Clo"]Thanks lionfish ! You even
remembered my "great 11" !

So, kayakchic, are these "wild" enough :

[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/p ... 811053.jpg[/img]

There are 11 elastics in there : 4 triangles left, 4 triangles right, 2 class-2
elastics and 1 (invisible here, on second molars left) crossbite elastic.

And this one wasn't bad either :

[img]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/p ... 109062.jpg[/img]

4 box elastics, 2 class-2 elastics and 2 lower arch "wideners". Not so many
here, but compensated by a ... headgear.
Yes, I was the reason there was a global shortage of elastics some time ago.
So sorry about that.[/quote]