| Subject: Marky, are you out there? |
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Dianne
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Date Posted: 14:02:05 07/12/04 Mon
Hi Marky,
I hope you've had a chance to reconsider leaving the forum and have decided to come back. Please don't let some anonymous idiot drive you out.
I posted a new message because I didn't want to drag that old negative string up to the top of the board again. Otherwise we'll never get rid of it! But you asked me a question and I thought I'd try to answer it...
>About your friend, and a night retainer, would you go
>that way or full braces? i was offered a 24/7 retainer
>to 'try' fix my underbite,but in my heart i knew that
>a retainer(same as the ones we get when we brace
>free), couldnt fix my underbite, i kept thinking how
>in the world can it be fixed just by a reatainer? and
>after all this time in braces im glad i went the full
>metal,most of us here will prolly all need a retainer
>for life , thats just the way it is for us adults :)
>hehehe..
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>PS looking at your friends teeth do you think that a
>retainer would work only at night? i can see it
>working if its stopping a ovwrbite getting worse or a
>underbite, but what do the teeth do when they not
>being retained. do they move all around,then get held
>firm at night? im thinking this way,becuase when i had
>elastics and missed a day rushin to work, i could feel
>my teeth move a wee bit, same when a wire breaks,you
>feel teeth goin back pretty fast ,
My friend's teeth already look totally and completely straight to me. I can't remember what problem she was told she needed braces for, but she decided to opt for the lifetime retainer because her ortho told her that she might need to wear a lifetime retainer anyway, even if she goes for the braces option. I'm not entirely sure how the retainer would work or why it would be a good substitute for full braces. To be honest, it seems a bit weird to me. I think her problem was also an underbite, just a very mild one. I don't know how the retainer would fix that. Hmmmm. Maybe I'll try to convince her to come on this forum and let us know what her orthodontist's rationale was...
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