Elastics!

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#1 Post by **Estelle** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:27 am

Hi
I have had my bace on no for nearly 12 months and am nearly finished! I went to the Ortho yesterday and there are still 2 teeth that are cross biting. Unluckily for me, I have had to have elastics on both sides. The ortho had to stick a new bracket on the inside of 2 teeth and connect the band to the bottom. It feels realy weird! My teeth feel a bit painful today and thinking Iwill have soup for lunch! I have got have the bands in for 3 weeks (next appointment) and am booked in to be de-braced!! Yay! He said though if the 2 teeth haven't corrected by then, I will have to post-pone having the brace off! Fingers crossed I will be able to eat Christmas dinner with NO BRACE!

Has anyone else had experiences with elastics?

#2 Post by **haywire** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:33 am

me, and quite a bad one

here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg

very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn

#3 Post by **Takako** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:11 am

Uhg! I wish I could be in elastics! I've been waiting 4 months for my gaps to close. They finally closed, the ortho took off the powerchains and 2 of them opened back up! I'm going back in to have those chains put back on! No way I'm delaying my treatment! I'm supposed to have some of my brackets moved around in December!

#4 Post by **LeahRuth** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:24 pm

I had the same thing on the left side, an elastic from the inside of my top molar going to the outside of my bottom molar. It was really easy to get used to and my crossbite was fixed really quickly.
Good luck!!

#5 Post by **haywire** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:58 am

how quickly? i have the same problem,i have the elastic for about 3 weaks, about 22 hours per day, and i can't see any movement

altrough my teeth straighten very fast..

#6 Post by **Estelle** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:53 am

haywire wrote:me, and quite a bad one

here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg

very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn

How long do you have to wear them for? That must be annoying when they snap! They must be quite tight then.

#7 Post by **Estelle** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:55 am

Takako wrote:Uhg! I wish I could be in elastics! I've been waiting 4 months for my gaps to close. They finally closed, the ortho took off the powerchains and 2 of them opened back up! I'm going back in to have those chains put back on! No way I'm delaying my treatment! I'm supposed to have some of my brackets moved around in December!

I have still got powerchains. They worked quite quickly but a couple of teeth were stubborn and took a few adjustments. Why do you need the brackets moved?

#8 Post by **Estelle** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:58 am

LeahRuth wrote:I had the same thing on the left side, an elastic from the inside of my top molar going to the outside of my bottom molar. It was really easy to get used to and my crossbite was fixed really quickly.
Good luck!!

Thanks!

Actually, one of the brackets popped off when i was eating a breadstick! So i had to book an emergency appointment on Monday and get it glued back on.
The ortho said the one side had already fixed the crossbite! Wow! It had only been 5 days. He did say it only had about millimetre to go. So now just waiting for one last crossbite!! Roll on 17 December - fingers crossed i will be ready for the brace to come off.

#9 Post by **Estelle** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:01 am

haywire wrote:how quickly? i have the same problem,i have the elastic for about 3 weaks, about 22 hours per day, and i can't see any movement altrough my teeth straighten very fast..

Very quickly. I had to go back to the ortho because one of the inside brackets came off and he said one of the cross bites had corrected itself due to the elastic already! It had only been 5 days! It didn't have far to move though - only about 1 millimetre.

Best of luck

#10 Post by **haywire** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:27 am

Estelle wrote:
haywire wrote:me, and quite a bad one

here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg

very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn
How long do you have to wear them for? That must be annoying when they snap! They must be quite tight then.

my ortho said that if i wear it all the time it will take a month, BUT there's no chance of that.
i have it for about 3 weaks now and i don't see any changes

i wear it about 22 hours/day

i think i'm gonna need thicker elastics or smth

#11 Post by **opera^gal** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 11:16 am

I'm new to elastics as of Monday...wearing a box configuration and I hate them! I look forward to each meal/brushing removal, so I can open my mouth wide and stretch. I'll keep wearing them as prescribed, but I'm less than thrilled with the whole set up.

#12 Post by **Estelle** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:31 am

haywire wrote:
Estelle wrote:
haywire wrote:me, and quite a bad one

here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg

very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn
How long do you have to wear them for? That must be annoying when they snap! They must be quite tight then.

my ortho said that if i wear it all the time it will take a month, BUT there's no chance of that.
i have it for about 3 weaks now and i don't see any changes i wear it about 22 hours/day i think i'm gonna need thicker elastics or smth

Thats how I feel about my left side. Can't see it working by the next appointment.

#13 Post by **Estelle** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:32 am

opera^gal wrote:I'm new to elastics as of Monday...wearing a box configuration and I hate them! I look forward to each meal/brushing removal, so I can open my mouth wide and stretch. I'll keep wearing them as prescribed, but I'm less than thrilled with the whole set up.

Sounds awful. What is a box config?

#14 Post by **Takako** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:07 am

Estelle wrote:
Takako wrote:Uhg! I wish I could be in elastics! I've been waiting 4 months for my gaps to close. They finally closed, the ortho took off the powerchains and 2 of them opened back up! I'm going back in to have those chains put back on! No way I'm delaying my treatment! I'm supposed to have some of my brackets moved around in December!
I have still got powerchains. They worked quite quickly but a couple of teeth were stubborn and took a few adjustments. Why do you need the brackets moved?

To put them in more ideal places now that my teeth have mostly straightened.

#15 Post by **opera^gal** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:47 am

There is a pic of the box configuration on my story. It goes from upper canine to lower canine to lower pre-molar to upper pre-molar...on both sides.