bottom hooks/buttoms

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Whitney
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Joined: Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:06 pm

bottom hooks/buttoms

#1 Post by Whitney »

Thank you for this site!!! It has been wonderful.
I got top ceramic braces and lower metal braces yesterday and so far, so good. My only question is: "What are the button/hook things on the metal bottoms?" I don't have them with the ceramic. They are utterly annoying and I don't seem to notice them on other people.
Happy Holidays
Whitney
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sophielafille
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Joined: Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:06 pm

#2 Post by sophielafille »

Oh, you mean those metal jabby things that dig into your cheecks? I thought they were there as a torture mechanism.

Seriously, I think they are for rubber bands or something.

-Sophie
Braces on November 16, 2005: Ceramic Uppers, Metal Lowers
Frenectomy done on December 5, 2005
4 extractions done on December 10
TPA installed Jan 16, 2006
Elastic Triangles started June 8, 2006
BRACES OFF!!!!!!!!!! July 17, 2007
now wearing two removable retainers. Yeah!!!!
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hannah164
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Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2005 6:02 pm
Location: Las Vegas

#3 Post by hannah164 »

I'm pretty sure they are used for elastics but they are driving me insane! They are so digging into my cheek and causing huge sores! :shock: I really want them gone!

-Hannah


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