Anyone having the old-fashioned, manually bent wires?
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:44 pm
Fellow BraceFaces,
just had my first adjustment, and things went from hard to harder.
Last time when I just checked in to get the wire clipped I got the bite plate. This time, my discrete small, straight and thin wire was replaced by sthg thicker... and not only thicker, but manually bent into weired U-shapes and loops that resemble the bottom end of a security pin and some other manually created curves.
I do understand that these shapes create a force that moves the individual teeth in individually set directions. Insofar, this is great.
The bad news are that
- the loops, although round, poke heftily into the lips and soft tissue. It was quite torn by the first evening, and the 20 boxes of wax from Dentakit haven't arived yet.
- also, it changed the look from pretty straightforward and discreet to a strange looking metal mouth with a prettty stunning construction of loops and U's and more.
My ortho said this would reduce treatment time by several months... teeth move where he wants them to, as opposed to the pre-shaped wires that tend to move everything into the standard direction and working less precise. He said he went from the bended wires to the pre-shaped spring wires back to a hybrid back to the bended ones... quicker results. (He gave me the choice: the ones that are (i) marketed toay and (ii) more comfortable or the ones that work faster and more customized. Actually, he was preparing the wire already while he exlained it... so he didn't really give me a choice.)
The crooked front teeth started moving directly, and some others (molars) at least hurt quite strongly when chewing... so I know sthg is happening there, too.
Question: Anybody else having this somewhat old-fashioned, weird-looking style, or am I the only soul who goes thru this?
Any forum opinions which approach is quicker? Any differences in end result (whcih I would find surprising)
DireWire
PS... my sentence is 12-18 mths to corect a class II deep overbite and overjet with crooked teeth
just had my first adjustment, and things went from hard to harder.
Last time when I just checked in to get the wire clipped I got the bite plate. This time, my discrete small, straight and thin wire was replaced by sthg thicker... and not only thicker, but manually bent into weired U-shapes and loops that resemble the bottom end of a security pin and some other manually created curves.
I do understand that these shapes create a force that moves the individual teeth in individually set directions. Insofar, this is great.
The bad news are that
- the loops, although round, poke heftily into the lips and soft tissue. It was quite torn by the first evening, and the 20 boxes of wax from Dentakit haven't arived yet.
- also, it changed the look from pretty straightforward and discreet to a strange looking metal mouth with a prettty stunning construction of loops and U's and more.
My ortho said this would reduce treatment time by several months... teeth move where he wants them to, as opposed to the pre-shaped wires that tend to move everything into the standard direction and working less precise. He said he went from the bended wires to the pre-shaped spring wires back to a hybrid back to the bended ones... quicker results. (He gave me the choice: the ones that are (i) marketed toay and (ii) more comfortable or the ones that work faster and more customized. Actually, he was preparing the wire already while he exlained it... so he didn't really give me a choice.)
The crooked front teeth started moving directly, and some others (molars) at least hurt quite strongly when chewing... so I know sthg is happening there, too.
Question: Anybody else having this somewhat old-fashioned, weird-looking style, or am I the only soul who goes thru this?
Any forum opinions which approach is quicker? Any differences in end result (whcih I would find surprising)
DireWire
PS... my sentence is 12-18 mths to corect a class II deep overbite and overjet with crooked teeth