I don’t know how many brackets I have broken in the getting close to three years I have had my braces. The ceramic brackets break easier. This last Saturday morning I was eating a ham sandwich for breakfast. I felt a crunching in my mouth. I had a good idea what it was. I went upstairs to the bathroom, and checked the mirror. Sure enough, the bracket on my prosthetic tooth broke. The tooth was still there, so I carefully pulled it out. I stuck it into a plastic bag so I wouldn’t lose it. Now I had a big gap in my smile where the missing tooth was. I looked like a hockey player.
I called the orthodontist office first thing this morning. It turns out my orthodontist was on vacation. But they scheduled me to come in at 9am when a technician would be there.
I showed up at 9am. The tech couldn’t put a bracket on one of my regular teeth, but this was a prosthetic tooth and just a place holder more or less so I didn’t have a big gap.
She was worried they didn’t have the right kind of bracket. She said they were phasing out the kind of ceramic brackets that I had, for a new kind. I guess they have some kind of clips. But I was in luck and she found one. It only took about 15 minutes for her to remove the remains of the broken bracket, clean up the tooth, mount a new bracket, and install the tooth.
The receptionist asked if I had tried to call. I said no since I didn’t think it was an emergency. She thought it migh have qualified since I had a big gap in my teeth. I told her that I just tried not to smile a lot. But I am all fixed now.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on August 11th, 2008 |