Please share success stories on how your ortho stopped this contact - my front teeth tilt inward. As my lowers were straightened it caused front edge to edge contact that seemingly can’t be fixed despite many efforts.
How is your bite during this process? Do your molars become misaligned or hit weird?
If so, how long does it take to fix the misalignment?
How is your bite during this process? Do your molars become misaligned or hit weird?
If so, how long does it take to fix the misalignment?
How do you handle this? I try to be passive. I’ve let him do so much crap and round tripping. But I have the same issues I started with.
He acts like he doesn’t see them (front teeth scrape against each other, molars tipped in the back that he didn’t bracket… I’ve literally chipped front teeth and my back molar. Yet he acts like he can’t see it)
He has me in a SS finishing wire and still hasn’t bracketed my back molars. He passively said he could bracket them but how the hell would that work at this point in a SS finishing wire?
He’s done all these things to put pressure and force on my front teeth to tip them forward. But any progress we make he seems to undo with a stainless steel power chain to close the gaps that form.
Now one of my lower teeth is being pulled more forward and crashing into my upper teeth even more. It is very slight, but there is absolute no room, so even a slight deviation causes heavier hitting. I tried to point it out and they “do not see it”
I’ve been to the dentist and the dentist did an occlusion analysis and confirmed everything I feel. I try not to go against my orthodontist because they do not like that. And get upset. But at this point, I don’t know what to do. I can’t be seen by any other orthodontist because I am currently under the care of this orthodontist. I cannot start over at this point because I do not even think my teeth can handle more of this back-and-forth and restarting. Plus this orthodontist was nearly 8000.
I Don’t know I am just completely burnt out and exhausted and I don’t know what to do at this point.
If anyone has had a similar experience, please let me know how you handled this or finally got through to orthodontist.
It seems like kids more commonly have loads of hardware in their mouth. What do these forces do to their teeth? Do roots shorten as often as adults? Or if you do ortho during adolescence you’re normally fine with no/minimal root shortening?
If you did not have a bracket on your last molar from the start, at what point was it added? And did it mess up the rest of your alignment because it was added too late? I am already in a stainless steel wire and a bracket on my last molar is something I have requested from day one and at this point I think it is too late. It seems like it would mess up the alignment of the rest of the teeth or possibly be too much pressure on my molar? How does it typically go with adding a bracket later on?
From day one I wanted my last molar bracketed because it is slightly tilted and I would like for it to be more in alignment but my orthodontist brushed over it several times… and now I am a year in and in a stainless steel wire and I i’m not even sure if it is possible to bracket it at this point? Every time I bring it up, he doesn’t really give me an answer.
It seems like he put a bracket on it now it would pull my other teeth out of alignment ??
This is something I asked for from day 1 but ortho brushed over it & said maybe add it later. My back molars DEFINITELY need correction. I’m chipping my lower molar from the misalignment (back molar was previously tilted sideways from Invisalign- got braces to correct)
Now I’m a year in and have several bends and twists in the finishing wire.
Next appointment I want to insist on bracketing my last molar, but how could this even happen now? As I think about it, it seems impossible to duplicate all the bends and twists in my current finishing wire and I assume they’ll have to use a new wire after adding last bracket?
Has this happened to anyone else?
This is something I asked for from day 1 but ortho brushed over it & said maybe add it later. My back molars DEFINITELY need correction. I’m chipping my lower molar from the misalignment (make molar was previously tilted sideways from Invisalign- got braces to correct)
Now I’m a year in and have several bends and twists in the finishing wire.
Next appointment I want to insist on bracketing my last molar, but how could this happen now? As I think about it, it seems impossible to duplicate all the bends and twists in my current finishing wire and I assume they’ll have to use a new wire after adding last bracket
Where should brackets be placed for retroclined upper incisors with no crowding to properly tilt them forward?
My orthodontist placed plastic 3M brackets kind of in the middle of my upper teeth/very slightly below middle. And despite many attempts to torque them forward (wire bends, moving to a stainless steel retangular wire early on, etc) it NEVER happens. I’m starting to question the bracket placement - it SEEMS like the brackets should be closer to gumline to tilt the crown of the upper incisors forward (the wire bends did move my teeth slightly but I really feel it most in the ROOT being pushed forward, while there’s minimal difference in visible crown)
There’s a power chain connecting my 4 front teeth as well so I wonder if that is why the movement is mostly in the root instead of the crown??
Idk but I’m exhausted with this issue that has persisted a year. Please let me know how this issue is typically fixed
I just had a conversation with a dentist. She told me that adults in orthodontics have a much harder time getting ligaments to heal after orthodontic forces are removed. She said sometimes ligaments actually never heal at all. And lead to slight mobility forever, even in healthy teeth and healthy adult. But more concerning, she told me that she routinely sees in her office root resorption from orthodontics. I asked her if it is typically only during active orthodontic treatment and she told me no. She said she sees it all the time in adults years down the road caused by ortho treatment. This is really shocking to me because I was told by my orthodontist that usually you only have to worry about this during the actual treatment. I did not know something like this would loom over you afterwards as well.
One of Invisalign’s lovely specialties 😵💫
My molars were tipped and now hit on the cusps and are causing my lower molars to chip. I’m so mad! Has this happened to anyone else? The tipping of molars seems common with Invisalign unfortunately
I had a horrific orthodontist messed up my bite with Invisalign and now I am noticing such an awful weird facial shape. Corresponding with the start of my TMJ symptoms.
It looks like I had Buccal fat removal in my cheeks, even though I never did. I used to have a full face and now I have this sunken gauntly looking face. Sunken lower cheeks. Protruding cheekbone.
Anyone one???? What is happening to me??
It seems the old standard was 1 time at beginning and 1 time at the end?
Apparently happens to some degree in every case. Normally/hopefully it’s minimal.
Do you notice it on your X-rays? How are your roots looking? 😅
What was your worst adjustment experience?
Mine was objectively when I got a new wire, assistant couldn’t get it seated, then had to get help. So much pressure getting it into brackets. Sent an awful shooting pain up my front teeth (still worried about that😵💫)
If your front upper teeth needed to be tilted forward, how was the accomplished ? My upper teeth hit my lower front teeth now and it seems nothing can fix this (tried rectangular wire, bends, weird twisted torque wire, etc.) These teeth feel like they’re constantly under so much pressure but nothing works to fix the angle.
Concerned with all the wire bends and crap that seem to do nothing but move roots and not fix the actual issue with my tooth position
I would imagine they feel really unstable and loose unless you’re constantly wearing your retainer? The few times I have had my wire changed, It feels like my teeth are so loose when the pressure from the wire is off.