Bracket instead of Band?????
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:14 am
Ok I'm new here so I'll start off with my story in short.
I'm 27 years old now but had braces before when I was in middle school/early high school. Unfortunately I was irresponsible and never wore my top retainer...but still have the permanent retainer on my bottom teeth. Finally, I'm able to afford braces again so I went to visit an ortho last week. The ortho told me his plan of action and we got all of my initial appointments set up. I went this past week to have my x-rays and impressions made and to get my spacers put in. I have a tooth in the back (molar I'm guessing...don't know all the technical language) that had been drilled out years ago to get ready for a root canal. I never went back for the root canal but haven't had any problems with the tooth at all. When the assistant was putting my spacers in near that tooth...the spacers kept breaking. She took a closer look to find out why it was breaking and noticed that that tooth was sharp and it was popping the spacers. She said she just wouldn't put spacers back there. The ortho hadn't said anything to me about needed to get this fixed before getting my braces but the assistant kinda got me worried about it. She said it was no big deal and that if he hadn't told me to get it fixed, then he had probably just planned to put a bracket on that tooth instead of a band. She put spacers everywhere else.
My question is...has anyone ever had this? Have you ever had a bracket on a back tooth instead of a band? When I had braces before I had bands on all 4 back teeth so this is new to me. I'm getting my braces on Feb 5th and while it may sound crazy...I'm SUPER excited. I can't wait to have straight teeth!
Please respond and let me know if this is something that you've heard of...I'm curious.
Thanks!
I'm 27 years old now but had braces before when I was in middle school/early high school. Unfortunately I was irresponsible and never wore my top retainer...but still have the permanent retainer on my bottom teeth. Finally, I'm able to afford braces again so I went to visit an ortho last week. The ortho told me his plan of action and we got all of my initial appointments set up. I went this past week to have my x-rays and impressions made and to get my spacers put in. I have a tooth in the back (molar I'm guessing...don't know all the technical language) that had been drilled out years ago to get ready for a root canal. I never went back for the root canal but haven't had any problems with the tooth at all. When the assistant was putting my spacers in near that tooth...the spacers kept breaking. She took a closer look to find out why it was breaking and noticed that that tooth was sharp and it was popping the spacers. She said she just wouldn't put spacers back there. The ortho hadn't said anything to me about needed to get this fixed before getting my braces but the assistant kinda got me worried about it. She said it was no big deal and that if he hadn't told me to get it fixed, then he had probably just planned to put a bracket on that tooth instead of a band. She put spacers everywhere else.
My question is...has anyone ever had this? Have you ever had a bracket on a back tooth instead of a band? When I had braces before I had bands on all 4 back teeth so this is new to me. I'm getting my braces on Feb 5th and while it may sound crazy...I'm SUPER excited. I can't wait to have straight teeth!
Please respond and let me know if this is something that you've heard of...I'm curious.
Thanks!