hrm i have a retainer-based question lol

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<p>well i've been wearing my retainers for around 3 years now.
braces and my retainers = 7~8 years..
okay so the thing is my dentist told me to never take off my retainers and.. well i never took them off.</p>

<p>i only take em off when i have to eat or brush my teeth but damn
its been 3 years now and i wanna be able to like take my retainers off and put them on only during the night..</p>

<p>do i really gotta wear them all the time? ive visited the dentist like every 3 months and god lol ..</p>

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<p>3 years? My ortho told me I could wear them at night after like 8 months of “all the time”. I put that in quotes because I didn’t…I pretty much always just wore them at night. Unless you have weird teeth issues, I don’t know why you would still wearing them 24/7.</p>

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<p>^Ditto.</p>

<p>I always wore mine at night even when I was supposed to “all the time.” The ortho never noticed.</p>

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<p>same here… mostly just at night.</p>

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<p>oh, its just i have 4 molars growing , do you think thats why?
and also,
if youtake your retainers off for a while, say for a few hours and you put them back on, does it kind of ache or like do you feel it tightening?</p>

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<p>Maybe it’s because of molars, I had my wisdom teeth removed so I can’t say for sure. Because I’ve been wearing my retainers (at night) for close to 5 years now, if I forget them for 1 night, when I put them back in it feels a little tight, if I forget for 2 days my teeth do feel a bit sore. That’s totally expected: the teeth are moving. If they weren’t you wouldn’t need to be wearing retainers!</p>

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<p>just have it in at night</p>