It helps to have connections...

This patient has braces as an adult and to prevent the lower teeth from drifting back to the original crooked positions we try to connect the teeth by bonding them together.
This patient had it done about a year ago and now the plastic that was used was starting to loosen...

The treatment is to drill out the old plastic and create a fresh channel to place a new connection..here is the new channel prepped...

A twisted steel wire is fitted to the space and will be bonded into place to help hold the plastic and teeth together..here i am fitting the wire to get the right size...

Once the wire is sized I then take the soft plastic and embed the wire as you see here...I then continue to fully cover the wire and polish it so that the patient has no feeling whatsoever that anything is even there...


Unfortunately the mouth is a tough place to survive and this procedure will have to be repeated every so often..but the patient does not mind..her teeth are straight!