Day 1 of Living with Braces

[KellyGreen]

28/F with moderate crowding in a smaller mouth with a narrow arch.

-Damon Clear on both top and bottom
-12 to 18 months
-turbos for severe overbite (hate them, hate them, hate them)
-mild crowding on top, moderate crowding on bottom
-elastics next appointment
-thicker wire next appointment

Apart from experiencing the expected pressure and tenderness, here is how it is going so far:

Had my braces put on yesterday morning, but the 2 front bottom brackets detached from their teeth in the evening. All I had to eat yesterday were omelets and frozen yogurt. :/ I never played around with my braces, either. I'm afraid my ortho office will think I was negligent when, in actuality, I wasn't. I tried really hard to not bite in my omelets with my front teeth, but, apparently, the carefulness wasn't enough. Isn't it generally a safe food?

A bit disappointing if that is all it took for them to unlatch. Was it me or the way they were put on?

[djspeece]

It was they way they were put on. It's common in the early going, especially on crowns. It's not your fault.

[Psa]

No worries. Just tell them what happened. Doesn't sound like it was your fault. Once, after having braces for more than a year and a half, the wire was nagging in the back of my mouth and I tried using pliers to fix the issue and of course detached a bracket(it was weekend and couldn't wait till Monday). They laughed and told me just to come in whenever I had issues.