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he told me there is no need to wear retainers at all after removal of braces, wow, I am so thrilled, i came to know about retainers only after all this i have been reading! My ortho didn't even mention its name yet! He just gave me some pills to chew for 2weeks...thats it....
Last edited by PerfectSmileObsessed; 09-01-2011 at 05:06 AM.
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How did your ortho explain what will happen to your teeth over the rest of your life?
Teeth move all our life and it's been shown by your ortho treatment how easily your teeth can move once ... so why wouldn't they continue to move unless they're retained?
After 5 years, 11 months and two days of stainless steel brackets ... my teeth now have upper and lower bonded, gold wire, retainers and removable clear retainers!
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sunny, he told me to chew these pills and they are like chewing gum and also during treatment he used to do something with this needle shaped tool near teeth base and on gums, he told me that it was to make them permanent and yeah he also gave me this sticky oientment like thing to apply on gums dont know what for!..,rest i dont know...
Last edited by PerfectSmileObsessed; 09-01-2011 at 12:07 PM.
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Chewing is one of the main reasons teeth move ... so getting you to chew in order to keep your teeth from moving is strange.
Have you considered asking another ortho if you need retainers?
Good luck!
After 5 years, 11 months and two days of stainless steel brackets ... my teeth now have upper and lower bonded, gold wire, retainers and removable clear retainers!
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what new technology?
Last edited by braceguy22; 09-02-2011 at 07:37 AM.
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braceguy, please start a new thread when you want to discuss something about yourself. It's consider poor forum behaviour to 'hijack' someone elses thread.
After 5 years, 11 months and two days of stainless steel brackets ... my teeth now have upper and lower bonded, gold wire, retainers and removable clear retainers!
Senior Member
Umm. I've heard from this forum and many others.. that if you don't wear your retainer for the rest of your life.. your teeth shift and then you're stuck getting braces AGAIN down the line.
I'm not willing to go through this process all over AGAIN.. so I'm happy to wear the retainers when I'm all done!
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When I took my braces off, my ortho told me to wear retainers all day long (except when I eat or drink)for a year and then at night for another 6 months. Then he told me that's it and that I didn't need to wear them again. This was 6 years ago and till this day, I'm not completely happy with the way my teeth look. Please make sure that your're making the best decision, and try to get other opinions from other orthodontists if you can. Better safe than sorry!
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My ortho said that I only needed to wear my retainers for one year. That was ten years ago. I'm wearing invisalign now to correct all the shifting. And my teeth shifted A LOT in 10 years. Please, for your own sake, get a second opinion or ask your ortho for retainers. Unless you'd like to wear braces again at some point in your life.
Invisalign:
23/31 U (2/3 done!)
6/6 L refinements; Completed 15/15 L
Metal braces 10 years ago
This thread (and especially the post quoted below) surely has to be a joke?
Sounds very odd to me.Originally Posted by PerfectSmileObsessed
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