OK so the unbearable pain / can't eat / can't sleep has only happened to me twice before (when I first got braces and after one particularly tight new archwire). But now I have elastics, one each side and one that goes on front teeth at night in a box shape. It's to correct open bite and something like overbite or overjet (I don't really get any info from my ortho about the termanology for these things).
So I couldn't sleep last night and today I'm so tired at work but I can't yawn, and speaking is a real work out too, hmmm. Anyone else had similar elastics, will it get better?
Elastics OUCH
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It almost always gets better.
After a while, you will feel incomplete without your elastics in your mouth. They really do work so wear them as prescribed!!!!! The pain and annoyance will fade in a short while.
I had class II elastics, inverted V and upper 7's to lower 7's. Not the same as you, but definately a mouth full!! They all worked beautifully.
After a while, you will feel incomplete without your elastics in your mouth. They really do work so wear them as prescribed!!!!! The pain and annoyance will fade in a short while.
I had class II elastics, inverted V and upper 7's to lower 7's. Not the same as you, but definately a mouth full!! They all worked beautifully.
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I wore Damon 3's and Opals for 20 months at age 42. Braces off January 2007
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I wore Damon 3's and Opals for 20 months at age 42. Braces off January 2007
http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3535 a little more about me here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... 961130.htm