My Braces Journey: Impacted Canine ** PHOTO UPDATE **

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ollielloyd
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My Braces Journey: Impacted Canine ** PHOTO UPDATE **

#1 Post by ollielloyd »

Hi everyone, just thought I'd give you some background to my situation and see if anyone else can relate! :)

April 2006 I was officially braced-up with self-ligating Damons! My baby tooth where the canine is meant to be was pulled 3 years before in 2003, and my Ortho. immediately began widening a space for the tooth to come down in hope when given enough space it'd move...

Skip 1 year to April 2007 and it hadn't budged; yet I still had a large gaping space where the canine should be! Not pretty!

Hundreds of X-Rays and Surgery Consultants later, I had surgery to attatch a bracket to my impacted canine,with a gold chain that would come through my gum.
The idea being, as my orthodontist uses elastic to pull the gold chain down, the tooth will come down slowly and can be fixed into place.

It's November 2007 now,and I have just had my SECOND oral surgery to put a bracket and gold chain on,after the last snapped off. My tooth has moved slightly apparently, and I am hoping this will all be able to be done in time for my move to Australia in July of 2008!

Here are photos of my current state, My orthodontist seems to think as soon as the canine is in place, everything else can be pulled together and I'll be done! Hope so! It seems FOREVER ; waiting for this canine to come down, but hopefully it'll all be worth it.

Note the small gaps on my top arch... My bottom wires havn't been changed in ages, they are pretty perfect... The area with the gold chain may look a bit messy since I have 4 stitches there and still a bit bruised from my second surgery I had on Wednesday!

Thanks all, comments welcome :)

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#2 Post by ollielloyd »

Hey Karen,

Preferably I just would love to have them off before Australia..Just another hassle and lot of money. My parents have paid £200 per month since May 2006 to my braces, because we have chosen to go private instead of the NHS since they where terribly slow...In hope they can be sorted before Australia...

I've got 7/8 months or so, so I'm just PRAYING this tooth will be down in about 4/5 and then I can just have the rest pulled together and sorted!

Hope everything is going well with yours Karen! Shame it can't come down...at the moment I think I'm just in denial a tooth is even up there since it's been so so soo slow and I havn't had anything in the gap for 4 years :(
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#3 Post by ollielloyd »

Yup,I hate it so much. I wouldn't mind braces what so ever if I didn't have this huge gap in my teeth...

The Surgeon said the tooth had moved about 1/2 inch down since the surgery in April 2007 to Wednesday... But I'm hoping that was just because it went back up a bit,since i remember being able to feel it below the surface with the chain,then before my surgery not really..He also shaved alot more bone from around the tooth this time,so hopefully it's going to be down by at least May! :(

Hmnn I won't mind so much having braces when ALL my teeth are there! I just hate this gap! :( Oh well,once they're done itll be worth it :) And I'm only 17,so consider myself lucky!
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#4 Post by ollielloyd »

Really? It just seems sooooo long. It still is about another half inch from breaking the gum at LEAST...and then all the way down...

Once a tooth has broken the gum, is it likely it can be pulled down faster? I would have thought once its through,and the bracket is on,and the wire is through the bracket,itll be rather speedy since the wire pulls the bracket down into place...

Thanks,

Ollie
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#5 Post by ollielloyd »

Good news I think; Since my operation, the tooth seems to have come down almost 2 links of the chain? Not sure if this is from the swelling going down, but before the chain was from the bottom of my gum, now it is coming out to where it was before, almost horizontally, and seems to be gaining links?

I hope it's coming down after having some bone shaved off, I just want to see the darn canine!
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#6 Post by ollielloyd »

I live in hope ;)
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#7 Post by Way Too Old For This »

Once a tooth has broken the gum, is it likely it can be pulled down faster? I would have thought once its through,and the bracket is on,and the wire is through the bracket,itll be rather speedy since the wire pulls the bracket down into place...
It does seem like it really speeds up once it has a bracket and is attached to the archwire. I don't know if that is the reason or because it has broken through the gum. Mine however, once exposed was always exposed, so there was no 'breaking through' so to speak. I think the more constant tugging from the archwire speeds it up. Before that they would re-tie it every week or so, but it seemed like the pulling with the tie wasn't nearly as strong as with the archwire.
Wired on Sep 16, 2005, left canine exposed on Oct 5, 2005, at 52 years old.
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My impacted canine

#8 Post by ibraceface »

I definitely relate! I do not mind my braces at all.... i am just soo embarrassed and tired of the gap... not to mention i ALSO have 4 extraction gaps. Can we say my mouth is a mess??

One my gaps close and my impacted canine comes down... ill be a happy camper... because i have lingual braces... and ill FINALLY be able to hide all my orthodontic work. I orignally wanted linguals so no one would know I had braces... but the gaps totally defeat the purpose... i QUICKLY tell people I have braces to explain my gaps... i mean, i woulnt want them thinking they fell out from dental neglect!! Atleast with regular braces.... people assume you have gaps because they see your braces and know the gaps must be related to ortho work... with me, there like "hmm... that chicks missing her teeth!"

Anyways.. my canine was exposed in September 2007, and my ortho said it would be down by Christmas.. apparently they are in amazement with how incredibly fast it's moving. They said it was because my oral surgeon did an amazing job exposing it... and now its coming down like any other tooth from my childhood. I had a chain attached and bracket attached to my tooth during surgery... However, when I went to the ortho for the first time after surgery... she said my tooth had already moved SOOOO much and they cut 8-10 links off the chain that say! I have no links anymore... the bracket loop is attached to the wire with some elastic.

Hopefully it'll keep making its way down and will be in line with the rest of my teeth soon... because im starting to feel like a hobo with this huge gap in my mouth :(
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#9 Post by ollielloyd »

Wow Braceface that sounds awsome! Lucky thing :P I had elastic tied on during my exposure,and I THINK it has pulled a little....I can feel the tooth below the surface (I think its the tooth) and the chain is not far...I had about 4 links cut off,and about 5/6 remain...so hopefully its close...

I HATE my gaps. People just look at my gaps and I can just tell they are like..gross...what happened...

But yeah, once my canine is in place i wont CARE about braces really! :P

Went to Ortho today,cut a few chains off,and tied on elastic. Moved my appointment from January 9th 2008, to Dec 11th 2007! yay!

Her words "lets speed things up"....Hmnnnn lets hope this works!
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#10 Post by ollielloyd »

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Here is an update of me, after my most recent surgery, with my new elastics attatched, and also a "mosquito" wire added across my front 2 teeth.

Does anyone know WHY a gap is getting bigger on the other side of my mouth now? Also, i think where the wire has pressure pulling the canine down, the tooth next to it is slightly raised? Could it be pulled up slightly?

I think I can feel the tooth just under the surface, a couple of centimeters or so from the bottom of my gum? I think the bracket is a little behind the gum...Is the elastic going to pull the tooth THROUGH the gum, so a bracket can be attatched, or will it pull the tooth down through the gum vertically?

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UPDATE

#11 Post by ollielloyd »

UPDATE 28th November 2007

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Went to have a broken bracket fixed today, and my Ortho told me the tooth is coming down great, and she said I can hope to see a tooth by Christmas :)

Verryyy exciting.

In other terms, my second from back bracket on the left KEEPS breaking off. It's done it AGAIN 4th time fixed in past 2 months, it happens within a few hours of being fixed,and nobody has a clue what is causing only this one bracket to come lose :( Very annoying...Photo attatched :)
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#12 Post by ollielloyd »

Yup! I am verryyyy excited!!! I keep feeling pressure and slight pain in the area, so I'm HOPING it's moving!!!

About the bracket; it's plain irritating!!! I don't have a crown, no...I know brackets tend not to stick well to crowns...I was trying so hard and then i felt it wobble with my tongue :(

But heres to the "birth" of my canine for X-Mas!!! :) Thanks guys
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#13 Post by ollielloyd »

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Ugh...losing hope again. I can feel my tooth soo close under the gum, but its still high up, looks about 3/4 of a cm above the bottom of the tooth next to it.

Chains coming down slowly...but it doesn't seem to be coming out at all! I was told probably poking through for X-MAS..not I'm just depressed since i can actually (this sounds gross) put a pin in the gum and feel the tooth just under about 2mm or so....

:( :( :(

Do the chains with elastic pull the tooth DOWN through the gum, or THROUGH the gum??

I'm hoping to be finnished by July, but at this rate who knows :( Once it's through I just want things to speed up..

Jeez I'm so peeved it's a joke. Having a giant gap in my mouth is HORRIBLE.
NOT.HAPPY :(
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#14 Post by BobKitten »

oh, hang on in there, Ollie, it sounds so close - but maybe that's when it's the most frustrating!

*keeps her fingers crossed for ya :-88
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#15 Post by ollielloyd »

Thank you :) I've just lost hope :( Im just like bleh...a year since my inital surgery...and just seems like nothings happened. Its not like theres a white area under my guy either..i can just feel it so close :( :(

Your teeth look amazing btw...so jealous
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