 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / August 2006weaning off retainer?
It's been half a month since my braces are off, but I still have to wear my retainer (the plastic kind) during the day. If I take it out for more than 5 hours, I can feel it very tight in the upper back teeth when I put it back on. What is the best way to wean off retainer? My othodontist says to wear it one hour, remove it three hours and gradually increase the three hours... Is this the best strategy? Would this work better than wearing it as much as possible (except eating)? Bill Gates(Email to me without 'this is not spam' in the subject is directed straight to the trash unread by automatic filters.) - 02 Aug 2006 19:08 GMT > It's been half a month since my braces are off, but I still have to wear my > retainer (the plastic kind) during the day. If I take it out for more than 5 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Is this the best strategy? Would this work better than wearing it as much as > possible (except eating)? If it's not too painful, I'd wear it as much as possible. My experience was that the less you wear it, the less comfortable it is when you do wear it, and vice versa. Oh, and retainers are forever. If you stop wearing it in a couple years, your teeth will shift and become crooked again! But you don't have to wear it often. When doing orthdontic treatment, the easy part is getting the teeth where we want them -- the difficult part is getting the teeth to stay where we moved them. Wear the retainer as much as you can, and discuss this with your orthodontist. You might need to have a new retainer if there are problems with the present one. Generally, you can expect better long term results if you continue to wear your retainer as much as you can. > It's been half a month since my braces are off, but I still have to wear > my retainer (the plastic kind) during the day. If I take it out for more [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Is this the best strategy? Would this work better than wearing it as much > as possible (except eating)? |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.