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Just curious if anyone else needs to call up their ortho weekly to go in and have brackets replaced/ wires reattached. It's always something popping out that I need to go in for, unless I stick to a strictly liquid diet which my ortho says I shouldn't have to. The funny thing is my ortho was telling me with the Damon system I'd only be in every 2 or 3 months for adjustments. Maybe if the regular appointments weren't spaced so far apart I would have to be in weekly for so many fixes? I do have missing teeth on both sides, which is where the wire usually breaks off. Really though, it's getting kind of ridiculous

Four to five times a year.

Once so far in 11 months. I have self litigating like the Damons, and eat a lot of crunchy/hard things

I popped off two brackets, one of them twice and I've had my Damon braces 11 months. I haven't had to go in for anything else though.

The only thing I've personally had to go back in for was to trim a wire a few days after an adjustment. And it's almost always after each adjustment. The one bracket that popped off was when the tech was fitting it with a power chain for the first time. Of the three of my kids who have gone through treatment, two had to go in for a loose bracket, but only once each. No one ever broke a wire or anything else weird. Youngest had to go back to remove a wire tie and replace it with a bumper tie because it was poking his lip and we had no grip for wax.

I'm lucky, one day a week I'm taking a kid downtown and I go right past my ortho office. So if I need a trim I can easily stop in and they take care of me pretty quick. I try and make appointments on Thursdays because if things move quick I inevitably need a wire trim and if my appointment was Friday I have to be miserable until Monday. Learned that pretty fast with kid #1.

Hopefully I'm not jinxing myself, but I've only had to go in for a repair once and I'm six months in.

Oh man! My first time in braces when I was 14-17, I *never* had to go in for repairs. No broken brackets or wires or anything. Not sure how that's even possible, as I ate anything and everything, but I would have remembered a broken bracket or wire. I *do* remember a wire breaking on my sister's braces and it went into her gums, so she freaked out because it hurt.

I'm praying that I can go two-for-two and not have any mishaps this second time in braces.

Probably about 1x every 6 months overall; but it's usually within a week of my latest adjustment. Usually broken or moving/shifting wires.

I have Damons and I've had to go in 3 times in the last nine months. Twice for a wire trim and once for lighter rubber bands.

I only went once in six months detached bracket.

I'm new to the board and trying to decide between ceramic or metal braces. Have folks noticed a difference in emergency appointments between the two bracket types?

akent597 wrote:I'm new to the board and trying to decide between ceramic or metal braces. Have folks noticed a difference in emergency appointments between the two bracket types?

I have ceramics on top and stainless on the bottom. No difference for me. Looking back I'd go with all stainless. The ortho can be a little more aggressive in treatment with stainless. After the first 2 weeks you won't be as self conscious about them and no one else cares about your teeth.

In the last 10 months, I've gone in for broken brackets twice! Both occurrences happened within a week of each other and after an adjustment. They put brackets on bottom molars and my top molar was hitting the bottom bracket on one side. They fixed it on the third try and haven't broken that bracket since!

I've only went in to get a bracket put back on once and a sharp wire end cut off once or twice, and I've had braces for just over a year.

I only had to go in once to reattach two brackets and that wasn't even my fault but the fault of my oral surgeon who needed to remove them while I was getting my wisdom teeth taken out. I guess I've been pretty lucky so far!