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I have had my braces off quite a few weeks and have been good about wearing my essix retainer which my ortho seems to think will last forever, contrary to what I hear on this site .

Anyway...there is one tooth that is just insistant on going back to it's crooked position. It's ever so slightly out of place. While in braces it was set perfect; when I wear my retainer it's set correctly as well, but once I take it off to eat and heaven forbid I don't put the retainer right back within a reasonable amount of time, it wants to tilt forward .

Anyone else have this problem? Do you think my tooth will ever be satisfied where I'd like it to be? I'm talking as if the tooth has a mind of it's own . I kind of think it does .

From what I understand, you need to wear the retainers as much as possible for the next few years after the braces come off. Teeth are contantly moving. My daughter's teeth were beautiful and she kept her retainers on for 3 years, the last year she laxed and now she needs a new retainer again.. Good luck.

Yes my troubled tooth is at the front. I go in tomorrow. Though I dreaded the thought of having a retainer fixed to my teeth (as does my ortho), really it might be best . Thanks, I really hadn't thought about that recently.

My braces came off on Wednesday morning and I don't get my retainer until Tuesday, and my one stubborn lower incisor is starting to shift. I really hope that the retainer will move it back into place. I am willing to wear the retainer as long as I need to in order to get my teeth to stay put. This shift is making me nervous. But, from what I've read, this is pretty common. Is that right?

I'm reallllly nervous because I have to wait 2 1/2 weeks between going naked and getting my retainers!

My braces came off on Wednesday morning and I don't get my retainer until Tuesday, and my one stubborn lower incisor is starting to shift. I really hope that the retainer will move it back into place. I am willing to wear the retainer as long as I need to in order to get my teeth to stay put. This shift is making me nervous. But, from what I've read, this is pretty common. Is that right?

First off, congratulations on getting debanded! Any movement from debanding to retainer wear can be easily fixed with a bend in the wire on the hawley retainer. Even if you will be wearing an essix, the teeth will shift back (as long as you can get it on)

I have a stubborn tooth too, mine is a lower front tooth that is hell bent on rotating back. I have a bend in the wire and oh boy does it hurt when I leave it out and put it back in. The canine next to it seems to want to rotate too, not sure if its just a "tag along" because its the "neighbor". Everything else seems fine.

Hello all-

I have one upper tooth that seems to have pulled up a bit (moved a tad higher into the gum). It has not rotated at all. I have my first retainer check this coming week. Does anyone know if a hawley can be adjusted to get a tooth back down.....I sure hope so (-: All else seems fine.

I had (have?) a lower incisor that kept twisting after my braces were removed. My ortho gave me an essex with a tweaker in it to twist that tooth back. 4 months later, that tooth was still not quite straight so while the assistant shoved on it to manually push it into place , she bonded a retainer to it. It straightened out for that!

Funny, now months later, I can occasionally feel it pulling on the wire and hear it clicking against the tooth next to it. It has definately got it's own idea!

It seems to be fairly common, I vote for the bonded retainer to keep it still.

Let us know what goes on!