i don't have molar bands

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#1 Post by **lifeslikethat** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:27 am

i have braces that don't have molar bands... is that normal? it didn't bother me at first but the guy i'm currently seeing has braces too and he once told me how irritating his molar bands had been and said that i was lucky not to have them.

i haven't really asked my ortho about it...

and one more thing, i've had braces for almost a year now and i think my second molars not being bracketed was purely intentional throughout the treatment.. yeah my second molars are the only ones that don't have brackets glued on them.. is there anyone else in this forum experiencing the not so usual things regarding braces?

i'm just really wondering..

#2 Post by **Toni** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:11 am

I don't have molar bands either. I think it all depends on what your ortho is trying to accomplish.
I wouldn't worry about it too much but if you're concerned ask your ortho.

#3 Post by **NYG2007** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:43 pm

I do not have molar bands, but I do have a second molar tube.

Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:19 pm

I don't have molar bands either and from what I've heard, I thank my lucky stars. It seems the whole spacer thing seems to be an excruciating ordeal in preparation for the molar bands. I joke that my ortho took pitty upon me because I'm old.

Regards,
Carlette

#5 Post by **lovelyleo** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:34 pm

hi carlette,
I don't have molar bands just regular brackets on all of my molars. Everyone's treatment is different so don't fret.

#6 Post by **TigerLily** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:16 pm

I don't have molar bands either.

It wasn't part of my plan but I nearly did as the day i was braced, a bracket came off an hour later when I bit. After my braces my ortho had said hmm that tooth is a bit tricky, be careful when you bite. Well when I got back I was testing out my bite plate..

When I went back to the ortho's to get the bracket put back on she had another look and said she thought maybe it would come off again so she'd put a molar band on, then she started putting a spacer and at that point, it all became too much for me (I'd got depressed straight after the braces) and started crying. My ortho thought it was all a bit too much so she put a closed coil spring to hold the gap on the tooth and said we'd come back to it. A few months later once my teeth had shifted, a bracket was put on that tooth.

So cry, it gets you out of molar bands...well I can laugh about now LOL.

Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:41 pm

TigerLily,

That made me laugh! I have to say I am quite nervous about the possibility of a molar band down the road myself. During week 1, I'm a newbie, I was chewing on a chunk of Gruyere (which I didn't think was that hard) and lost the last bracket which holds my archwire (sorry, don't know the technical terms yet). Since then I've been so careful eating. It's just not fun!

I now break my cheese chunks into small mouse size morsels:-)

Regards,

Carlette

#8 Post by **pitterpat** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:11 pm

I just got braces on Oct. 1. I got 2 molar bands put on Friday October 10. The brackets didn't stay on the crowns so they put bands on them. The one on top is bothering my tongue a lot. It's not that it is rough but just that my tongue hits it a lot. I have put wax on it, hoping my tongue will feel better.

#9 Post by **acd** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:13 pm

The worst part about molar bands were the spacers. Fortunately mine don't have cleats on the back of them so they really don't feel any different from any other bracket. I had an upper lateral incisor that was behind my other front teeth that ended up with a band on it because the ceramic brackets kept falling off. After about three months it had come forward enough to get a ceramic bracket. I called it my Museum of Orthodontic History since I would have gotten full bands on every tooth if I had gotten braces a teenager in the early 1980's.

#10 Post by **Kristiana** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:40 pm

I never had molar bands, spacers, or molar tubes. My case was mostly crowding, the minimal bite problem I had was an easy fix.

#11 Post by **pitterpat** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:09 pm

Finally got all the mirrors lined up to see what the thing looks like. It is the cleats on the band that I'm feeling. I know she worked hard at trying making it so it wouldn't bother me. I'm getting more accustomed to it but still keeping wax on it a lot.

#12 Post by **PuppySmiles** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:57 pm

TigerLily wrote:So cry, it gets you out of molar bands...well I can laugh about now LOL.

Hahaha! Oh, you poor dear.

I wish crying would get me out of having stupid cavities. I know, I know, the dentist doesn't cause them, he just fixes them. But honestly, it's such a pain! Isn't there anybody I can cry to for that?