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#1 Post by **my december** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:46 am

I don't know what exactly got me wondering about this but... I'm scheduled to get my braces on in 10 days and was thinking about it all a lot.

Did any of you get to see your molds? Was anyone given the option of keeping them when treatment was complete?

I'm just really curious about my molds, and I think I'd even want to have them. A reminder in a sense of how far I've come post-treatment.

#2 Post by **Arbywhopper** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:51 am

I get to see mine on October 1 when i go back for the second consultation. As far as keeping them i don't know, but i hope we get a choice. I would like to remember how far i have come!! I will have to put that on my list of questions to ask when i go back.

#3 Post by **TumbleDryLow** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:40 am

I asked this question (among multitudes of others) at my records appointment. I think the assistant said that, if I remembered to ask, I could have the molds when I was finished with treatment. I needed another mold done of my upper arch about a month into treatment. I was able to keep that one right away. It's really cool to see the progress in three dimensions.

#4 Post by **TumbleDryLow** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 8:59 am

She said that they needed to keep the molds taken at the records appt. to use a reference while active treatment was going on, but beyond that they weren't needed. She was just a tech though, the ortho may have something else to say on the matter. At least I have the mold of my upper arch. (Where the heck to they keep all these molds I wonder? It's not like they fit in a file. Can you imagine wandering into that room by accident?)

#5 Post by **diande** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:56 am

i asked about keeping my molds when i got debanded. before that i saw them a couple of times near the end of my treatment as the ortho would have them on a table beside her and i would sneak peeks.
she said she needed to keep the mold for a year after debanding (that would just cover the last time she saw me post braces) and after that i could have them. i may have to remember to ask for them though.