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Originally posted by svt
I think its awesome you are answering all these questions popo.
Here's mine =)
I've got braces right now and I know you're a dentist and not an ortho, but I bet you know. Anyways, my teeth look great but my ortho says I need to have them on for more time and its been 4 yrs! It would be shorter but I cant make it to the ortho because he's 160 miles away from my house(because I'm away for college) and I'm always breaking brackets or "tpas" what ever those are. So... I took off my upper braces,except for the bands around my back teeth where the wire connects to. My question is, will my teeth go back to the way they were? I hate these damn things and I'd like to take them off asap. Again, thanks.
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I actually don't know much about orthodontics. It'd be really tough for me to tell you whether you're teeth will go back to where they were without knowing many more details such as what the teeth were like to begin with, what exactly was done, length of time, length of time for stabilization, etc.
Usually an ortho will suggest a procedure called a fiberotomy if you've had teeth rotated during treatment. This helps to keep them from rotating back. The real defining factor though, in most cases, is basically how often you wear the retainers.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
BTW, ortho's are dentists too.
