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I have had my upper expander for about 2 weeks and this morning I woke up with terrible pain on the upper left side of my mouth. Later that day I discovered that on the left side it seems like the expander has become unbonded from my teeth! It is clear that the left side is much lower than the right and it is not straight anymore. My ortho's office is closed until Monday morning so I don't know what to do for the next 3 and 1/2 days! My mouth hurts so bad (it was fine until now). Should I continue to turn the expander? (I have been turning twice a day) Any advice?
Yes call asap, my expander came loose and my ortho got me in that day. To fix a loose expander they have to take the expander out all the way, clean the cement off of the bands and your teeth then they re-glue all of your bands back on....Well unless you are "lucky" like I was and they break your expander when removing it and then you get to go hope expanderless and then go in the next day to have it replaced with a brand new one.
I went in Monday morning and they took it off. He then told me no more expander!! I only had it for two weeks so I guess I got off easy! I am not sure why he decided that though! I didn't want to ask and end up with another one-ha ha!