Oh! the pain - elastics
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Oh! the pain - elastics
So I need to vent about one of the most popular subjects in this forum - elastics! I was given class III elastics today along with a thing that is supposedly a power chain but it seems to be shorter than those I have seen here and metal. Anyway the pain is brutal, does it really wear off? Since you renew the elastics then I suppose that the pain is also renewed. My ortho told me to change the elastics once every 24 hours but I am thinking of changing them every 12 - this is inadvisable isn't it ?
Poor you, elastics are hard to get used to.
Power chains can be quite short. My ortho cuts them from a roll on the odd occasion I have one.
I was told to change my elastics every 24 hours, but I have always changed every time I take them off. My ortho, when I told her, said I didn't 'need to' but she didn't seem to have any objections. I was wearing 3 different types at one time - so it was just easier for me to put new ones in (than lay them out in an order so I knew which one to put where).
Power chains can be quite short. My ortho cuts them from a roll on the odd occasion I have one.
I was told to change my elastics every 24 hours, but I have always changed every time I take them off. My ortho, when I told her, said I didn't 'need to' but she didn't seem to have any objections. I was wearing 3 different types at one time - so it was just easier for me to put new ones in (than lay them out in an order so I knew which one to put where).
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In my experience, the elastics pain does get better but unlike most other things in orthodontics, it does not disappear completely. I've been wearing elastics for several months already, and every time I change them I still feel the pressure and some mild to moderate soreness in the teeth involved. The rubber bands exert continuous pressure on your teeth and therefore you can hardly forget about them. However, you get used to the feeling and eventually you'll get to a point in which you will feel weird without your elastics in
braced 07/02/08, braces off january 2010
sentence: 18 months, upper and lower damons + elastics
Bonded+essix retainers
My story: http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=28298
sentence: 18 months, upper and lower damons + elastics
Bonded+essix retainers
My story: http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=28298