I had my orthodontist appointment this morning. The couple teeth on the upper left have moved just a little bit, bit still aren’t out where they should be. Actually one has moved, but the one next to it not so much. The orthodontist pulled the wire out, and straightened it almost out all the way to give maximum pull. He said that should help. I asked if there was anything else, we could do like heavier rubber bands. He said I am using the heaviest rubber bands they have. I asked what about doubling them up? He said if I could get two rubber bands on there, to go for it.
They put the wires back in, and all the little ligatures on. They didn’t replace the rubber band. But when I went out to my car, I put one rubber band in. Then I tried to put a second rubber band in, but couldn’t get it to stay on the little button. So I thought that I might be limited to a single rubber band.
But a little later in the morning, I decided to try again. This time I was able to get the rubber band to stay hooked on the little button, and got it attached to the other little hook thing. So now I have two rubber bands in there. I can definately feel that it is pulling more. Hopefully this will get the teeth to move out. It will be an interesting experiment anyway.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on August 27th, 2007 |