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i have a triangle gap in my 2 front teeth but recently 100% of the time when i eat i get food stuck in it, and the gap is small enough that i can only floss it out eatin bread is the worst, is there any thing i can do about this? i got out of braces and i had 1 year of braces i only wear retainers a...

when i got my retainers my bite changed too i have to clench my teeth without retainers and the bite becomes better n teeth move back to when i had braces but i put my retainers in they are super tight n move the bite back i dont know if its my teeth or my tmj now that u mention it but definately so...

i wore my retainers 24/7 for the year, and now i can wear it at night
but when i put it in at night, they still feel tight with no pain

is this normal?
i wore them religiously for like 10 months first month i kinda relapsed

so i have a tongue thrusting stopper between my back 2 front teeth basically spikes iwas never really told how i shud rest my tongue and now that i am brace free i need to keep my teeth in check becuz they are being thrusted still i know my tongue shud be placed on roof of mouth but the tip of my to...

i have a triangle gap in my front two teeth and i think i made it more visible by flossing when i floss i usually dont push into the gumline but after my cleaning i realized ur supposed to so i did and it seems more visible, but my other teeth dont look receded from touching the gum line i thot ur s...

this problem before so my previous tooth brush hurt my gums and i brushed too hard, causing gaps in my teeth and i serisouly think it made al my teeth eroded so i got a new tooth brush n brush veryy lightly. in my bottom four teeth i notice hard white crust at the gum line, if i pick at it with my n...

1 year braces 1 year (almost this jan) in retainers removable top n bottom for first 2 months..yes i didnt wear retainers n i regret it many gaps in my teeth and bad bite but anyways my bottom teeth when i push with my tongue still move easily...top is a little harder but still evident i wud think a...

im out of braces for about a year but have been wearing retainers for a year i always had a tiny tiny triangle gap over the past few months its been getting bigger, today i noticed..wow its noticable when i smile now..usually my saliva wud make it hadr to notice but even so now its visible i wear my...

ive done some googling and found out it is NORMAL to have ur mouth 1-3 mm open when ur mouth is relaxed mine is always clenched, i do have tmj though now im starting to wonder how much dmg ive done to myself from clenching all day and all night im 6 months in retainers and my teeth are still moveabl...

relaxed lets say my mouth is closed and my teeth are all touching, at this point how much pressure is normal? i am noticing my molars looking cracked at the top and i know i clench because my ortho told me to clench as hard as i can in the beginning of my braces treatment to close a gap, i dont know...

i have retainers on my bottom teeth and they latch onto 4 molars 2 of my molars they are latched on with hooks now i have big gaps so big that when i floss they just go right in food gets stuck like crazzy and i have tofloss after ever ymeal is there anything i can do without going back in braces i ...

i am not sure but i think i have a clenching problem i had my braces off for like 4 months and im wearing top bot retainers 24/7 i clench here n there but i dont know if it happens when i sleep my molars look like they lost a layer of the top or something i could of sworn they were larger anyways 2 ...

my ortho was very good at his job and he was famous as a implant surgeon i respected him but when it came to treatment he never told me whats going on he wud just be like ok ur getting braces but first i expand ur jaw than one day i get braces then one day i got pwoer chains then he fixed stuff here...

i was never aware that my tongue was not resting correcrtly, i assumed it just pushed forward when i swalloed however my tongue rested on the bottom of my mouth i typed in tongue thrusting in google and looked up everything related, i read one article i forgot the site sorry, but it explained everyt...

i kjnow no one has replied but just to throw it out there i corrected my tongue thrusting within days my teeth are way better already, i am in shock so the reason my teeth were ggoing bad in retainers was cuz of the stupid tongue thrusting it took a while to get used to the new tongue position and i...