Fixed braces and rubber bands straight away?
Hello, I've had braces and rubber bands (Class 2) in for five days. My teeth are extremely crooked and still need to be moved into the correct position.
So I'm not sure if it's right to tell me that the elastic bands have to go in now, even though my teeth aren't in the right place. I also had two teeth pulled, which is why my teeth still need to be moved.
Since the third day, I've also had pain in my right jaw joint when I open my mouth. I occasionally feel it crack, and my lower jaw always shifts to the right whenever I open my mouth. I'm really unsure, and I can't see my orthodontist again until Monday.
I can't find anything about it on the internet, so I wanted to ask here.
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So the rubber bands are supposed to correct your excess bite in which they simply pull the teeth backwards. It doesn’t matter how they stand, the main thing is just moving backwards. Your teeth are brought into the right position simultaneously through the braces, depending on how the CFO glued the brackets. So it is not a problem to use Elastics directly
There’s no one here to help you. Please, trust your orthodontist. He is the expert and knows what to do.
Rubbers are not used if it is not sensible. Your teeth are probably just getting to the right place with rubbers. Waiting for them to move voluntarily, so to speak by themselves, is hopeless.
Apart from that, only your CFO knows your treatment plan. Why don’t you just ask him for it?
I’m not waiting for them to move by themselves. I realize you need a brace for this. However, the rubbers are usually used only for the jaw and since my teeth are not yet in their right place, I thought that the rubbers might shift my jaw “wrongly” and therefore I have this one-sided pain. I have not been able to ask my CFO, because, as I have already said in my question above, it can only be reached on Monday. And since this is made extra for asking questions, I thought that maybe I would ask my question here and maybe someone had something similar.
You’re not a professional. So better leave thinking to the CFO. It doesn’t make any sense.
As I wrote in one of my other comments, I asked the question here to know if someone had something similar and whether it’s normal. This forum is especially there to ask all possible questions and if it weren’t, I wouldn’t have asked a question like that. There are many people who have as much questions as I have, only most often in other medical disciplines.
A second opinion I still can’t get there, as I said in my previous comments and in my question, the doctors will not leave me until Monday. On Monday I would have talked to my CFO anyway, but I was curious and nervous, which is why I asked the question.
The use of the rubber can make sense at the beginning of the treatment, however there are also many people who get rubbers only relatively at the end of the treatment. It is always different and how you always say: “The CFO will already know what he does.” That’s why you can’t say that it doesn’t make any sense to use the rubbers later, except they’re a specialist in this field.
They are like me not a skilled person, which is why, as I do, they cannot know what is right or wrong.
Then you get a second opinion and don’t go to a laity forum, because the question is if you doubt the competence of your CFO, total humbug.
However, it does not change the fact that the rubber is useful because otherwise 2x the teeth must be moved. Only the teeth align, then align the jaw, does not make any sense because the teeth then, if necessary, do not fit one another correctly. This can also be understood by a layman.
I’m just as little a professional as you. There are also orthodontics that can make things wrong. Just because you’re a professional, it doesn’t mean that you do everything right.