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i was supposed to have my braces off a month ago, but the ortho wanted to tweak a tooth that was a little lingual, which resulted in one of my upper incisors popping out of place a bit (grr). anyway i saw him yesterday, and he thinks he can fix it with an essix, and i can still get my braces off.

so, they did an impression of my lowers, and after i left it occurred to me - wait a minute, shouldn't they do an impression of my uppers too? can he do an essix without an impression? i'm confused...

just want this to be over.

They'll do the impression of your upper teeth for your Essix after your braces are removed. Before my braces came off, they did an impression of the upper and lower arches for my permanent retainers and upper Hawley. Did your ortho say anything to you about permanent retainers? Maybe he is only going to put one on the bottom for now since he still has to tweak an upper front tooth?

he told me he could tweak the uppers with essix retainers, if i wear them 24 hours a day. my lowers were totally wired up, but my uppers were pretty much ok before, i only have about three brackets on my upper teeth.

so i guess i'm not getting my essix when i see him next? boo.

Most of the time you get the Essix same day as deband. A lot of offices have a lab in the back. It's the Hawleys you have to wait for.