pain -- but in between adjustments?

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#1 Post by **colorpurple** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:32 am

so i am 6 weeks into getting my bottom braces, and today i feel really tender around certain teeth. is this normal?? i thought this pain left after the first few days. do you get random bouts of tenderness in between adjustments that come and go?

#2 Post by **yj207** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:30 pm

Yeah definitely! Thats how I know that they're doing their job, is how I think about it. It doesn't hurt too bad tho, just comes and goes.

#3 Post by **kilikena311** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:06 am

Totally normal. On my last adjustment he took off my powerchain and repositioned a bracket. Because they couldn't get the same thick wire back into the repositioned bracket, he stepped down to a smaller one and decided to leave off the pc to give my tooth a chance to stand up a bit more. There was no pain until two days before my next adjustment. This time, on the other hand, he put on a pc that is a lot stronger than the other, and I'm on day 3 and its still hurting quite a bit. Either way, its totally normal and I still don't regret doing this at all.

#4 Post by **electrokitty** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:38 am

Totally normal!

Earlier in my treatment when my teeth were still pretty wonky, random teeth would suddenly start hurting weeks after an adjustment.
I think it was a case of surrounding teeth having moved to a point where that tooth could start moving, hence the sudden pain!

It's all a sign of progress

Kitty