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Subject: Re: Oops..it's not the canine..my bad!

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Brandy

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Date Posted: 21:45:30 08/28/04 Sat
In reply to: naomi 's message, "Oops..it's not the canine..my bad!" on 19:33:49 08/28/04 Sat

If you have a lot of tightness between your teeth on the bottom, I can see why he'd want to extract. I had one of those "hiding" teeth on my uppers, my upper right lateral hid behind the others. My ortho put a spring in and gave me months to make room. I don't know if your ortho is being impatient or if he can just tell from the tightness of the teeth that there's no way they'll make room and extraction is the only option. But don't worry so much about your lower midline. Look in the mirror, put your teeth together and smile. You really can't see much of your lowers. Plus, when people look at your smile, its that upper midline that really gets the attention. Trust me, no one looks at our teeth nearly as much as we do, not even our orthodontists. Something that is glaringly obvious to you might not be noticeable at all to someone else.

Brandy

>So I got to counting my teeth tonight (what better
>thing to do on a saturday night lol). I have 16 teeth
>and it's the seventh tooth from the back that is
>hidden behind the other teeth so that would actually
>make it my right lateral not the canine(I think). My
>midline is shifted to the right on the bottom so that
>confuses things. The four teeth to the left of the
>tooth that is "hiding" are so tight now that its
>impossible to even floss between them without getting
>the dental floss stuck.
>I wish I could show you a pic because that would be so
>much easier than trying to describe it. That's
>it..I'm going to buy a camera right now :P~
>
>~naomi
>
>>It wont necesarrily mess up your midline. I would
>>prefer to ext the first bicuspid and bring the canine
>>into place, but of course I never saw your teeth ;)
>>
>>>Today I had my first adjustment after having braces
>>>for 8 weeks. The orthodontist said I've had quite a
>>>bit of movement because there was a good size bit of
>>>wire at the back. The only possible problem is that
>>>we were hoping to get my lower right cuspid to fit in
>>>with the rest of the bottom teeth. Right now it's
>>>behind the other teeth and there's only about half a
>>>centimeter (if that) space for it to move into. I
>>>have had a coil on there since I had the braces put
>on
>>>but it still doesn't seem to be budging to make room
>>>for this stubborn tooth! Today he put on a lot
>>>thicker wire on the bottom and this time it goes
>right
>>>to the very back molar (before it was only back as
>far
>>>as my first molar). He said if it hasn't improved by
>>>the next time he sees me (in 7 weeks) then I will
>have
>>>to have that tooth extracted. I'm wondering if
>that's
>>>going to screw my midline up. Wouldn't you have to
>>>take one tooth from each side to make it even? I
>have
>>>quite a mouthful of teeth so I'm not too worried
>about
>>>losing one as long as it will look ok when it's
>>>finished. It still seems weird that I have impacted
>>>wisdom teeth and we're not removing those but..one
>>>thing at a time I guess! :)
>>>
>>>~naomi

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