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

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Denise

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Date Posted: 05:47:39 07/07/04 Wed
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 got my braces of four years ago and because of a combination of my poor retainer wear and what I think was a easy come easy go attitude of my orthodontist, I'm about to embark on another two years of braces. To make matters worse, I wore my braces for 15 months initially and this ortho says that he'd be happy if 2 years was the max. You could say that retention is important.

>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
>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.

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Re: Does relapse happen often??Anyone doing this for the second time?	jo(uk)	07:54:55 07/07/04 Wed