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English => General => Topic started by: slugbrace11 on 08. September 2006, 12:45:46 PM
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Are bands that wrap around all teeth ever used? Besides on the molars.
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Rarely, but we did find a guy with full band. The pictures are on the GWB site.
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i can remeber people wearing them when i first started school(20 years ago) but havent seen anyone with them since
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There used to be a girl over in the German section who was being (mis-)treated with full bands. But she might well have been a fake and she's stopped posting now.
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Topic about the German girl treated with fullbands:
https://www.bracesforum.net/smf/kieferorthopaedische_behandlung/erst_engstand_jetzt_luecken-t5041.0.html
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Many orthodontist's don't use any bands now, as new bonding agents mean that buccal brackets can be attached with ease to crowns and teeth with large fillings.
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there's a girl on photobucket
and she looks like she has full bands
https://dereferer.me/?https://dereferer.me/?http://s91.photobucket.com/albums/k281/reggaedog/?action=view¤t=BeforeBracesRemoved9-10-05-1.jpg
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I got one lose bracket not so long ago and I couldnt reach my ortho... so I started to look for some other to fix it as I couldnt wait with that. I phoned about 20 ortho offices and no one wanted to do it :-/ ... finaly I found one that was willing to help... I still had to wait a week for visit. When visit day came, I went to the ortho office... once it was my turn, I entered ortho room, sayed hi to my new doctor and BAM ! she got full bands on her teeths. She was about 35 year old or so, fine looking woman with so much metal in her mouth that I couldnt see her teeths at all. The view was truely amazing, I never seen anything like that before in real life. She also talked a bit strange, not opening moving her jaw to much, it just made her braces to be more visible... I was so exited that I hardly stop myself from stearing straight at her braces. Unfortunaly she put on mask for the procedure. Now she is an orthodontist... so she could get anything that she would like for her teeth... and she chose full bands... maybe its some real medical case... but it could be that she just like them. I didnt dear to ask her as it would be a little not to comfortable situacion, if it would turn up that she dosnt feel to braces same as I do. I even wanted to ''move'' my treatment to her office, but she sead its not a good idea... that cost of braces include caring for them etc. :-/ She also asked me if I wear elastics (which I dont) and told me that I should wear them right away and If I would be unable to reach my ortho, that I should come to her and she will take care of it... but I did manage to reach my ortho unfortunaly... I didnt went to ortho for a year now, I dont want to remove my braces. Im looking for understanding and cooperative ortho, to take care for them... wonder if she would be my chance... but even If I would get her email or even went to visit to her... I wouldnt know what to say... and Im little afraid that she might just not understand it correctly.
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I had bands for a year or so when I was living in the phillipines for work, and they were so cheap! Like £300 cheap. But then I came back home to the uk, got a new ortho, and he left them on for 4 months before he took them off because they were "old technology", so I got metal brackets instead. Which are actually far harder on my lips. I'd rather have kept the bands!
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referring to the last post by Braceletta:
>:D I think it was no good idea to remove the bands and to put brackets on again. The ortho should know how to deal with full bands. It's an old technique, but that does not mean to be a bad one. There are advantages in using brackets instead of bands and therefore it has developed to the usual technique - that's all. Bands do possess brackets on them and the ortho should have been using these. It would be the same like he would have found another bracket system on your teeth than he normally uses and if he would have changed your brackets against other ones just in order to match to his own philosophy.
@ all who have visited the Phillipines (or even lived there):
Did you happen to see anyone wearing fixed braces and do people wear fullbands on the Phillipines these days? What about the use of rubberbands and headgear?
@ Braceletta:
Do you remember other people on the phillipines wearing fullbands? Did the ortho offer brackets instead of bands, too?
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Hi Ingo - the ortho just said that the new brackets would work faster than the bands would! I wasn't offered brackets in the Philipines, and didn't see many people with braces at all - but most had bands, a few had brackets.
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@ Braceletta
I posted many pictures of woman from the Phillipines in the "adult women"-section. There was no one wearing full bands.
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I saw (in ten or 15 years) only 2 cases, and one only had 2 0r 3 bands (in the front).
The other was a extrange case of a woman who had too much space between teeth.
BTW: I liked the history of haaz and his ortodoncist.
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I didnt saw a fullbanded Person yet too. But in some cases a Ortho use more bands as normal, on the front teeth too.
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I don't think I've ever seen a full banded person. Bands on the moalrs yes - but not on all teeth.
Mind you I am not sure bands ont he molar are sed as much as they used to be?
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user larissa79 on youtube appears to have full bands use keywords braces chick picking and you should find the video.
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I hardly ever see anyone posting any pictures of anyone with full bands anymore - certainly many people have worn them ... anyone have old pictures they can share?
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book called teeth Joan Iveson-Iveson shows a person wearing full bands (A children's book).
How it feels to be adopted - has pictures showing full bands..
there's an incredible picture in an old ladie's home journal magazine (I'd have to find it) -
I really hate how braces have gone to these bubble gum kids things - the full metal bands look so much better.