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Wire shifting
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:04 pm
by Vyse
Has anyone experienced this before. My bottom wire keeps shifting so one end of the wire comes out of the last bracket completely.
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 1:49 am
by TheNewEmperor
me. me. <jumps up and down and waves hand in the air>
i had my adjustment last week and the dr didn't want to put a stop on the wire for me...
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:07 am
by Vyse
Why would he not want to put a stopper on your brace for you?
TheNewEmperor wrote:me. me. <jumps up and down and waves hand in the air>
i had my adjustment last week and the dr didn't want to put a stop on the wire for me...
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:20 pm
by ¤sabrina¤
me, we discussed it here
viewtopic.php?p=268774
Meryaten explained what "stops" are
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:35 pm
by TigerLily
If you mean the wire popping out of the last bracket, I have had that happen to me. My ortho said it meant I had been either eating hard food or taking too big mouthfuls of food. She said this happened with the softer archwires and if it was a harder archwire, instead of the wire popping out, there was a risk of a bracket coming off.
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:38 am
by TigerLily
She wasn't saying I had to change what I was eating between soft & hard archwires. I should have been taking more care - it just happened that at the stage this happened, the more flexible wire took most of the impact.
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:32 pm
by Huon
If you get the back of your thumbnail against the end of the wire, you should be able to push it back to where it belongs. I had to do that, frequently. The wire slides through the slot in the brackets. After all. that is what it did in order to end up in the wrong place.
Huon