Do your end wires pop out often?

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#1 Post by **tasha89** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:51 pm

I'm not sure if I am just being careless or my tooth are just moving but I find my end wires are constantly popping out. In some instances I am able to get them back into the tiny little hole but most often not they just stab the sides of my cheeks.

Does this happen to you too?

#2 Post by **tasha89** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:26 pm

and by tooth i mean teeth

#3 Post by **macgirl4ever** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:36 pm

When I was wearing NiTi wires and I was closing gaps between my teeth, my wires seemed to pop out more than I would have liked or they would slip so that one end of the wire extended way past the tube.

#4 Post by **Margie** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:28 am

When I was on my first wire that happened to me all the time, but as I have changed wires I haven't had a problem.

#5 Post by **drrick** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:51 pm

This is usually more of a problem with very light nickel titanium archwires. It can also occur more frequently if there is a missing tooth before the terminally bracketed tooth.

Tell your doc as there are some tricks -- for example, placing a small amount of adhesive on the end of the wire to keep it from coming back through the molar tube. BTW, that trick also works greeat if you have a lor of leveling to do and the end wires keep coming out and sticking you d/t tooth movement.

#6 Post by **haywire** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:51 pm

never so far

#7 Post by **jambo532** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 5:16 pm

I did have my wire pop out into like a c shape. It was still in my brackets but it just like bent or something. I don't know how to explain it haha. I just pushed it back down and it was ok though.
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#8 Post by **Kitagirl** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:53 pm

My wires seem too far into the holes to pop out, which is good. A few times they've poked out the opposite end and that HURTS like needles...I found a tiny pair of snips that I use to clip them down myself. (I know its bad but I can't handle those wire ends!)

#9 Post by **ChristyD** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:04 pm

I have had my braces for about a month and a half and just had an adjustment 4 days ago. Today I noticed that the wire wasn't all the way in just like Jambo said, kind of a c shape. I pushed on it and it popped right back into place. I was trying to figure out what I ate or did that made it come out

#10 Post by **Blossom** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:50 pm

Mine used to pop out all the time, to the point where I would go in and get it fixed and then the next day it was out again!

I made the mistake of just leaving it out until my next appointment - 6-8 weeks time and this meant that I could not get my wire changed because my back molar was no longer lined up with my other teeth.
So go get it fixed! Annoying but necessary!

#11 Post by **karencoutts** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:07 pm

Never had a wire pop out of a bracket. Like the other poster said, mine just end up going the opposite direction and poking me like a sharp needle.

#12 Post by **karencoutts** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 9:08 pm

Correction: Never had a wire pop out of an END bracket. I've had wires pop out of other brackets.

#13 Post by **TigerLily** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:32 pm

I had this a few times when I was in the lighter wires. Once or twice I got it in myself, the others I went to the ortho and once my dentist (who is at the same practice where my ortho works part time) did it.

My ortho told me it was a sign that I was eating too hard foods and that I should be careful as when I was in the harder wires they wouldn't pop out but it would put more strain on the bracket and that would pop off instead.

I ate a nut when I was travelling in South America and my bracket did indeed pop off and I had an emergency visit to a local dentist which was a nightmare so be careful!!

#14 Post by **rachf221** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:35 am

Yes this used to happen to me a lot. I've got two bottom teeth without brackets (so they can rotate and get more space etc.) and when I bite down with harder food it takes the wire out. I've become quite good at popping it back in again! Ortho never notices...

#15 Post by **hanzie** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:15 pm

ive had this happen for the second time now, the first time i went in and they reinserted it for me, they said if it happens again come in and they will clip the wire until i go to a heavy one.. well it just happened again, if i leave it out until my next appointment is this going to mess up my treatment??