i should start off by specifying that i dont have money for any orthodontics. my insurance is bare minimum and i simply dont have the money for short term braces or invisalign.
when i wa 15 i got my braces off. i wore my retainer until my doctor told me i didnt need to anymore about a year later.
its been five years now, and i have small spaces in the top of the front of my smile. they really arent bad at all,
my retainer still fits, just with a gap between my teeth and the plastic, but i can get it on. im wondering if i wear it how it would take me to get back to normal.?
i know that its different for everyone and without seeing no one can be sure, but there are relatively small spaces and im simply asking for an educated guess.
im also asking if anyone advises me not to do this seeing as its been about 4 years since i had it in last? theres a decent amount of space between my top and botom teeth. my bottom retainer still fits perfectly with no gaps.
thanks guys!
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So I had braces when I was in high school and had a retainer. Well at the time I was going to college then quit and my dads insurance kicked me off. Shortly after my retainer broke and now several years later my gap in between my front two teeth came back. I lost my invisalign retainer at least 3 or 4 months ago and I’ve been irresponsible enough about it to not do anything until now. I still wear the upper half of my retainer which keeps my top row of teeth aligned, although my bite has significantly changed because I’m missing my lower aligner. Hello everyone. I had my braces removed when i just turned 17, and I only wore my retainer at night due to vanity, and stupidity. Now I am 20 and I regret it so much now. I currently have a small gap between my front teeth, and slightly on the sides of my front teeth. The teeth haven’t shifted dramatically in any other way though……I have an appointment with an orthodontist coming up, but I hope that I do not have to go back to braces. Anyways, is all that shifting safe for my teeth? Can I get away with a new retainer, or invisalign? Hi. My teeth are really tight in them because they’ve moved a little bit, not much though. what happened was, I started noticing that I was getting this tiny bit of a gap in between my front teeth so i thought if I started using my retainer again all the time my teeth would move back (it’s an invisalign thing thats molded)… anyways, I hate taking it out now to eat and stuff because it hurts since my teeth are moving back in place, but I was wondering how long will it take to actually move back so that I can just wear it at night? Okay I haven’t been wearin my retainer for a while [its Invisalign] and I need to wear it because I have an orthodontist appt. coming up on Monday afternoon. [Today Is Thursday.] I know I need to wear my retainer as much as possible but I tried to put it in and it hurt so i stopped. Is there anything that I can do to soften it up or make it easier to get it in there? Anything will help. Thanx. I’m 43yrs. old .. don’t have major crooked teeth never wore braces as a child……I want to straighten my two front teeth and my dentist (not an orthodontist) recommended a spring retainer – which i haven’t rec’d yet but will shortly… my question is he said I’d only need to wear it about 5 months and should have my slightly overlapped front teeth corrected.. has anyone else used this method? (As opposed to invisalign or braces?) i got my retainer when i got my braces off but a couple weeks ago i got bubble gum stuck in my retainer. its plastic, like invisalign. HELP! i go back to the orthodontist next week and i need it out by then! My orthodontist said that I should wear my retainer for 15 hours a day (so basically from about 9 PM to 12 PM the next day) 7 days per week. However, I’ve been wearing it about 12 hours (12 to 12) a day for maybe 6 or sometimes 5 days per week. Is this a big deal or is it important that I wear it strictly as instructed? |
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