My prosthodontist made me a splint about 4 months ago to get my jaw re-aligned. This was before I could even think about getting braces. It worked pretty quickly and a week ago I finally got braced. My orthodontist modified the splint when he put the braces on, but something was wrong. The splint didn't feel right and my bite was all out of whack again. I thought it might just be part of the braces process, but I wanted to make sure. I didn't have another regular orthodontic appointment for 12 weeks (is that normal?)
I called both dentists this morning and have an appt. with the orthodontist tomorrow, but my jaw dentist got me in this a.m. Yeah! He agreed that the splint was now causing a problem and needed to come off. But to keep my bite aligned, he had to build up 3 of my teeth with enamel filler. There's such a huge gap on the left side of my bite that the 3 'fillers' look like stalagmites. I'm not kidding!
The good news: today's the first day I'm biting with real (sort-of) teeth, rather than gumming everything with the plastic splint.
The bad news: just as I was getting used smiling with braces, now I have a truly bizarre-looking lower set of teeth.
The other good news: I'm glad I listened to that little voice which told me to call my dentists about my concerns. My prosthodontist was very glad I called him and set to correcting problem on the spot. Without this correction, he told me I could have lost all the progress I'd made correcting my TMJ issue.
Just call me Fangs.
i only know mine are damon clear upper social 6 and the rest damon metal- no idea what wire etc but probably is the same as your describing! i have no ligatures either. 
