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Today for breakfast, I had coffee, bagel and cream cheese and swallowed an elastic!

After brushing my teeth on a day when I got new stronger wires, I found a piece of something hard in my mouth that I nearly swallowed. I thought might be food? I spit it out and it was the bracket that came off my back top molar!

What have you eaten during treatment?

Hehe Was the elastic at least delicious?

All I tasted was the bagel I was so happy that my teeth were not so sore being almost 4 weeks since last adjustment that I could enjoy a nice chewy, wholegrain bagel.

The only thing I've eaten so far is some wax. I nearly ate a spacer through the fault of my ortho because she was taking it out and dropped it (choking a patient to death is not something good to put on the CV!)


I don't avoid any foods though, so I think I'm doing pretty well so far because all my brackets remain intact

At one point my ortho glued something called buttons to the inside of one lower molar so I could use an elastic from the inside of that tooth to the outside of a top molar. Anyway, the buttons were small pieces of metal, just small enough that they could fit two of them on one molar. They said they used two in case one came off. Well less than a week later after a meal I went to brush and found only one button left. I had swallowed it without knowing. So about two weeks later it happened again - I swallowed the other buton during a meal without knowing until I went to brush and all that was left was the glue on my tooth!

I scheduled an appt to get more put on but they said the tooth had moved enough that I didn't have to. They just sanded off the glue and sent me on my way. I've never lost a bracket even while eating super hard crutons and stuff, so those buttons must be prone to coming off easily...

Oh yea, I totally have eaten a TON of wax also! I don't use wax much anymore as I'm a year into treatment so my mouth is pretty used to the poking and rubbing... but towards the beginning I used to use it all the time and I'd always forget it was in there. Then I'd be eating and be like, oops...

A lig.
I didn't notice tho.

Rach x

Nothing yet, or nothing that I'm aware of.

Wax, for sure. I've had several brackets come off, and fortunately I spit them all out. I'm glad I didn't swallow them. I'm even more glad I didn't break a tooth by biting on one! One came off while I was eating scrambled eggs. They're pretty mushy, so I wasn't chewing too gingerly. I really chomped down on that bracket!

I've once swallowed a broken off piece of archwire. I didn't even feel it break off, so it must have just gone down with my food!