A little background: I have a serious overbite (110%), a very small mouth and a host of other issues! As a teen my mother didn't have dental coverage and we lived in Germany, so braces there were very expensive. No problem, fine by me. When I came back to the US I visited 2 dentist who, looking back now weren't all that great, but they told me that at 18 ortho would just be cosmetic and the type of insurance I had would not pay for it. So fast forwar 10 years... my hubby has awesome dental that includes ortho, so I'm set to get banded! I've had my consult, and records, and yesterday got my treatment plan! I'm so stoked, I've watched my 9yr old go through the process (phase I) and saw how much it helped her confidance soar, now it's my turn.
Now here is my question; I go in this saturday for my final cleaning before banding, and my banding date is the 16th. So my ortho said since I live 1 1/2 hrs away I could put in my own spacers...I had to put my daughtetrs back in when they fell out. So ok I can do this (yeah right) I come home last night thinking I'd go ahead and try and what do you know my teeth are jammed to tight and my mouth to small to get any leavrage to get them in. I was able to thread the floss through and pull the spacer inbetween the teeth but was unsucsessful in snapping the band up, so the whole o-ring was totally jammed down by my gums. I left them in thinking it would open up enough for me to properly install them, but when I woke up, it was hurting so bad that I had to take them out. So do any of you know if it's ok for the whole band to be inbetween the teeth, or will I have to suck it up and go back to the ortho to get them placed?
