After I had my braces as a kid, I had a 3-tooth bridge installed. I was told that this would keep my teeth from shifting. Uh…wrong! Over the years, my teeth still slowy shifted, and got out of whack.
Now fast forward almost 30 years. As my teeth got more and more out of alignment, I became more and more self-conscious of them. I wanted to get braces to get them fixed. When my company offered an upgrade to the dental insurance that would cover $2000 toward adult braces, I went for it.
One of the first things they did when installing my braces was to cut the bridge into the three individual teeth. He actually knock the bridge off the tooth on the one side, and had to re-glue it down. So now I have the two end teeth still solidly attached to the teeth underneath. And I have one loose prosthetic tooth in the middle. When they installed the braces, the glue a bracket onto the loose tooth and attached it to the wire. So I don’t have a big gap in my smile.
But the prosthetic tooth is a pain in the but sometimes. It flops around in there on the wire, and often flips up. I have had the bracket come unattached from the tooth several times, and have broken the ceramic bracket at least once. But I call the orthodontist, and they get me right in and they fix it quickly.
I am not sure why they needed to cut the bridge. But I am paying the orthodontist for his expertise, so I put my mouth into his hands.
