Re: Does relapse happen often??Anyone doing this for the second time? -- Metal Mouth Forum

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [10] ]

Subject: Re: Does relapse happen often??Anyone doing this for the second time?

Author:
Cap'n Nemo

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 19:06:25 07/06/04 Tue
In reply to: Dianne 's message, "Re: Does relapse happen often??Anyone doing this for the second time?" on 15:30:31 07/06/04 Tue

>I don't know anyone who got braces for a second time,
>but I've met a ton of people who had braces as kids
>and now their teeth are crooked again. So I think
>relapse is pretty common. One friend told me that she
>wore braces for 2 years because she had a large gap
>between her front teeth, and the gap opened up again
>almost immediately after she got the braces off (like,
>within a month). Yikes! Two people I met have a
>permanent wire behind their bottom row of teeth, and
I had braces as a kid, but my teeth--and jaw--shifted,so that now I have a slight underbite and moderate teeth crowding. In the days when I got braces, the retainer was not emphasized as something to wear for very long. (I don't even remember how long I wore mine).

Nowadays, of course, wearing a retainer is what keeps the teeth from shifting from the position they were in when orthodontic treatment was completed. I have been in braces for 6 weeks and plan at the end in 2 years, to wear the retainer for life. I know someone with a lower retainer wire behind the teeth. I may ask for this, although I have heard that it makes flossing a little more complicated.

>that seems to be working well (their top teeth have
>shifted but the wire has kept the bottom ones in
>line--I've never seen the same type of wire behind the
>top teeth so I don't know if that can be done or not).
> I guess it's some kind of permanent retainer. I
>don't know what they're called, but I want one when I
>get my braces off! Does anybody know anything about
>those? I'm a long way off from that yet, but I want
>to ask my ortho for one when the time comes.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Does relapse happen often??Anyone doing this for the second time?	Denise	05:47:39 07/07/04 Wed