brace question - loose tooth

[Guest guest]

I hope someone can help me out here. Today while brushing teeth I

had a weird feeling around my lower back molar - the one banded. I

checked afterwards and to my horror discovered that it was actually

moving sort of up and down. Sadly due to my open bite that is the

only place where my teeth meet so it is under constant pressure. I

called my ortho in despair and he told me not to panic because this

can happen and he will check it at my next appointment - a week form

next Tuesday.

I am still worried and honestly am fed up with this whole thing and

feel it is actually ruining my whole life and doubt if it ever work

fine again.

Has this happened to any of you?

Karola

[Guest guest]

Hi Karola,

Do not despair... My band also became loose and irritated after surgery

and it hurt a lot. I just did not play with it and focussed on the

other side of my mouth and tried not to let the band move to much.

Eventually the irritation went away and I just kept on doing what I was

doing. When I go to the orthodontist next week he will fix it as well

as a bracket that popped off. Have you had surgery or are you just in

braces? If it is just braces, that does just happen and at the next

appointment they will replace the band. It's not a big deal. If you are

healing after surgery, it is a little more worrysome but also not the

end of the world.

Good Luck, Tova

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> I hope someone can help me out here. Today while brushing teeth I

> had a weird feeling around my lower back molar - the one banded. I

> checked afterwards and to my horror discovered that it was actually

> moving sort of up and down. Sadly due to my open bite that is the

> only place where my teeth meet so it is under constant pressure. I

> called my ortho in despair and he told me not to panic because this

> can happen and he will check it at my next appointment - a week form

> next Tuesday.

> I am still worried and honestly am fed up with this whole thing and

> feel it is actually ruining my whole life and doubt if it ever work

> fine again.

> Has this happened to any of you?

> Karola

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[Guest guest]

I promise, this will not ruin your whole life ... unless you choose

to make that happen.

It is not unusual at all to have teeth be loose and/or shaky, after

braces or after surgery. Just try to leave it alone, best you can,

and not fiddle with it. That's hard. Or at least it was for me.

Not at all unusual to be " fed up with this whole thing. " It's hard

to see the end in sight when you think you have a major complication

in midstream. But I'm hoping for you that it's not so major as

you're suspecting.

Just try not to fiddle, in any way, with the offending tooth..

Best,

C.

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> I hope someone can help me out here. Today while brushing teeth I

> had a weird feeling around my lower back molar - the one banded. I

> checked afterwards and to my horror discovered that it was

actually

> moving sort of up and down. Sadly due to my open bite that is the

> only place where my teeth meet so it is under constant pressure. I

> called my ortho in despair and he told me not to panic because

this

> can happen and he will check it at my next appointment - a week

form

> next Tuesday.

> I am still worried and honestly am fed up with this whole thing

and

> feel it is actually ruining my whole life and doubt if it ever

work

> fine again.

> Has this happened to any of you?

> Karola

[Guest guest]

Hi Tova,

This molar is on the right side on the bottom. I don't know how you

count teeth is the USA but it is number 6 if you count it from the

first front tooth. I had number seven extracted mid January. My

ortho said it would be best to get rid of that one since it had a

root canal and a crown. (It took my very good dentist 1,5 hours to

get it out!!!) He is planning to pull my wisdom tooth in its place

as he said it would be removed during surgery and this way we save a

healthy tooth instead of one that is already a weak one.

I have all my wisdom teeth and so far I have had no pain with them.

On the left side (bottom) he is going to pull number 7 and my wisdom

tooth in the place of number 6 and on that side the band is on

number 7.

It is definitely the tooth that seems to move up and down in its

socket and also a bit from side to side - together with the band

which seems to be securely in place.

I think I will just try to be patient as with all other teeth that

hurt for a day or two and then stop hurting.

I just panic as we do when we don't understand something and fear

losing my teeth to the braces. I know it is highly unlikely but

can't help worrying.

I also know people here are going through much much worse ordeals

right now and endure things I can't even imagine now but probably I

will too.

This whole process is scary and surreal. And mostly barbaric.

Totally.

And I can't let this take over my life. The fact that I had to

postpone trying for a baby was bad enough. Instead we began building

our own little house which I like to think of as a consolation and a

gift from life and it requires a lot of energy and strength. My

husband is fabulously patient and understanding and I don't want to

leave him cope with all the tasks around the building project as

that alone is overwhelming not to mention having to tend to me.

I guess this is one of the many setbacks I will encounter on the way.

Anyway,thanks for advice and listening.

Karola

[Guest guest]

Tova's right, though. It could be a wizzie, or another tooth that's

an oddball embedded one... I had an impacted one on my lower left.

You don't wanna know what happened with that one -- among other

things, it threw my entire bite off. i'd think, though, that your

ortho would have seen such on x-rays. (Your ortho did do x-rays?

Right?)

Where are you, I wonder. I associate the name Karola with Poland,

perhaps because I'm of the impression (perhaps mistaken) that it's

one of the names of the pope.

It could also be that you have what my hygienists call " a food trap "

there, for some reason of configuration, and that you're battling

some debris that's hard to get out. (My folks actually said that the

proxabrushes are better for me than flossing, in that spot, as they

may get out bits that the floss only pushes under the gums. They

also suggested that I use the waterpic device, which flushes stuff

out with a stream of pressurized water.)

Anybody building a house has my sympathies. We are still trying to

put ours back together after Hurricane Ivan had its way with the

house. It is not fun, at all. But I'm hoping, as I reckon you are,

that there will be rewards outweighing the troubles.

If you keep your mouth clean, you're unlikely to lose your teeth to

the braces, so long as you don't have root resorption (which

generally comes about, I think, from trying to move things too

quickly, or for those who start with damaged roots). Generally,

folks save their teeth with braces.

And no, it should not be barbaric. Not any part of it. There are

parts that sound barbaric to me, but the docs have their skills and

techniques so refined now that you shouldn't have to undergo any

barbarisms. That is not to say " no pain. " But as my ortho told

me, " The teeth move better when we are kind to them. "

Cammie

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> Hi Tova,

> This molar is on the right side on the bottom. I don't know how

you

> count teeth is the USA but it is number 6 if you count it from the

> first front tooth. I had number seven extracted mid January. My

> ortho said it would be best to get rid of that one since it had a

> root canal and a crown. (It took my very good dentist 1,5 hours to

> get it out!!!) He is planning to pull my wisdom tooth in its place

> as he said it would be removed during surgery and this way we save

a

> healthy tooth instead of one that is already a weak one.

> I have all my wisdom teeth and so far I have had no pain with

them.

> On the left side (bottom) he is going to pull number 7 and my

wisdom

> tooth in the place of number 6 and on that side the band is on

> number 7.

> It is definitely the tooth that seems to move up and down in its

> socket and also a bit from side to side - together with the band

> which seems to be securely in place.

> I think I will just try to be patient as with all other teeth that

> hurt for a day or two and then stop hurting.

> I just panic as we do when we don't understand something and fear

> losing my teeth to the braces. I know it is highly unlikely but

> can't help worrying.

> I also know people here are going through much much worse ordeals

> right now and endure things I can't even imagine now but probably

I

> will too.

> This whole process is scary and surreal. And mostly barbaric.

> Totally.

> And I can't let this take over my life. The fact that I had to

> postpone trying for a baby was bad enough. Instead we began

building

> our own little house which I like to think of as a consolation and

a

> gift from life and it requires a lot of energy and strength. My

> husband is fabulously patient and understanding and I don't want

to

> leave him cope with all the tasks around the building project as

> that alone is overwhelming not to mention having to tend to me.

> I guess this is one of the many setbacks I will encounter on the

way.

> Anyway,thanks for advice and listening.

> Karola