I’m glad this video worked well for you! 😎👍 It feels good to have literally saved your life! 🫡

Bc the kid doesn’t care that they have a wire poking or they have a sore lol just mom

There are a few reasons to set it up like your orthodontist did and every orthodontist has the way they prefer to do things. As long as you end up with a great result, all's well that ends well. Best of luck!

@@likeabossproductions1254 Thank you for responding back!

There are a couple of reasons I can think of: 1) if you have three lower incisors instead of four because either you had one of them extracted or you were born without one. In that case, the center of your central incisor bracket should be treated as your new midline. 2) the Ortho is purposely trying to skew one arch to fit the other to compensate for asymmetry in the upper and/or lower jaws. 3) the Ortho or his staff member simply made a mistake when placing the archwires. The most likely explanation is either 1 or 3 but 2 is theoretically possible. You should feel free to ask your orthodontist at your next appointment. You are, after all, paying for the treatment. Every team makes mistakes sometimes, despite their best efforts. 😊👍

@@likeabossproductions1254 nice details, thanks.I can't see a midline mark on my archwire though, are they so tiny just to be seen with binoculars? And also there was no bino worn by my orhodontist either :)

@@LBJdachosen1 I am trying to see the midline on my arch, but I cant see anything. Does every wire have this mark?

You would cinch the wire distal to the most distal bracket if you have a premolar extraction site or long unsupported space. The reason is because when the patient chews food the round NiTi wire will flex and the distal of the wire will slide to the mesial and come out of the most distal bracket. To prevent that you can cinch distal to the most distal bracket and that prevents the wire from being able to slide to the mesial when the wire bends in the edentulous space. If all the teeth are present you usually do not need to cinch distal to the most distal bracket. Also, you usually do not need to cinch wires that are .016 x .022 NiTi or larger, in my experience.

Dr it sounds good to always cinch the wire end. any situation that cinching the wire end will cause a problem?

Cinching the wire would only be a problem if you’re trying to open space with a spring on the wire, say to open space to allow a tooth to erupt, for example. In that case, you could still cinch the wire if you wanted to but you’d need to leave enough wire between the distal of the most distal bracket and the cinch to allow the space to open sufficiently before the cinch runs into the distal if the most distal bracket. I hope that helps!

so special care on using open coil spring to upright or distalize molar as more distal space is required to open space there. therefore, leave some wire length before cinch the wire end?

I would ask my Dr. Im sure they would be glad to answer

Power chains will close spaces. After the spaces are closed, some Drs keep power chains on to prevent the spaces from re-opening while other Drs place single ties. With single ties in place there is a chance the spaces might re-open but the advantage is that single ties make it a little bit easier to keep the teeth clean because there’s not a chain stretching between all the teeth that food/plaque can hide behind. If spaces re-open, your Dr can always place another power chain to close them. I hope that answers your question. 👍

@@likeabossproductions1254 thank you🙏

You can buy them from any company that sells brackets (American Orthodontics, Ormco, 3M, etc). You could probably also find them on Amazon or eBay if you don’t care what brand of brackets are on the typodont.

Yes. That’s why you want to use a distal end cutter to clip any bit of wire that is sticking out the distal of the most distal bracket. The distal end cutter should hold onto the cut piece of wire after it’s cut so you can remove it without the risk of losing that small piece of wire in the patient’s mouth.