two wires on top arch?

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#1 Post by **Zondrae** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:22 pm

Has anyone had two wires on their top arch? I had an adjustment yesterday & he has put the regular square wire on top, then added a second wire with bends & tweaks in it to move/hold my front teeth. Plus small power chains on each side & my usual elastics configuration. The bottom arch is in a holding pattern.

So - has anyone had an extra wire like this? This morning it hurts, to say the least......

#2 Post by **Zondrae** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:26 pm

bumping this just once to see if I get a reply.

#3 Post by **breal87** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:37 pm

Hey Zondrae - Maybe if you could put up a pic?? I am interested to see what this looks like

#4 Post by **jennielee81** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:41 pm

I remember someone else on here had two top archwires. I think it was strugglebug....let me check on that and I'll be back with more info.

#5 Post by **jennielee81** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:52 pm

Yes, it was Strugglebug!

Here's a link: http://strugglebuggybraces.blogspot.com ... -results=6

scroll down to the May 3, 2005 picture. She's got the double wire on the bottom arch. She had that wire for a few pictures on her blog.

She's still active on here if you want to contact her.

YouTube · #6 Post by **retainerjoe** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:43 pm

i too had this set up, if you look at my pictures you see on my upper arch it was done, a square wire in the brackets ,an powerchain over that , he said i could have colors over that if i like an i did, then a round wire over the top of that , my jaw was expanded an this was a heavy expansion retainer wire used to hold things in place along with my headgear