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Hi,

I finally got my braces off last month after a few years. I had a clear retainer on the top, lingual on the bottom. The other week I noticed that one of my teeth was SLIGHTLY pushed back. I wasn't sure whether that could have been because I bit into something that shifted the tooth back or if the lingual wire wasn't strong enough. I tell my ortho about this yesterday and he looks at it and says he can put back the braces on the bottom 6 teeth and have it straightened out within 2 appointments. However, I am moving this weekend to work about 5 hours away from my orthodontist, so if I were to go this route it would be really hard to figure out timing. Isn't there some way around this so that i can realign the teeth? Like can't he just make me a plastic retainer since they do have molds of my mouth?

Thanks

Wow! I'm sorry to hear that. I have a friend who had a similar issue. She also asked for her ortho to make another retainer from the final molds because she wanted to use it as sort of a Invisalign situation to fix that one tooth. She was denied. Her ortho wants to put a few more braces on to fix it as well. So maybe that's routine. I would explain to your ortho that the time difference is horrible and that if it's any way possible to get that bottom clear retainer, that would be best. Good luck!

Do you only have a lingual retainer for the bottom? I thought lingual retainers were used in conjuction with a removable retainer for the first few months or so since teeth can still shift with just the lingual