<p>I'm already gone thorugh one pair of invisalign retainers. Apparently I chew on them in my sleep.</p>
<p>we paid extra for the top front 6 to be clear. ( thats why I told her I could hardly "see" them!)
However, I think for D that if she ever decides to get them again- that invisalign would be a good choice. Her teeth just need minimal adjustment to be "perfect" and she could wear them for short periods until she was used to them.
I truthfully didn't realize it would be that much of a problem- after all she wears shoes and underwear now, but she just couldn't stand the way it felt- and actually if I allow myself to remember- I don't blame her :(</p>
<p>Cowpernia - That's an idea. I think it's probably too germy for me to touch though</p>
<p>Put the thing in a plastic baggie with a big red bow on it lol</p>
<p>Emeraldkity4 -Her teeth just need minimal adjustment to be "perfect" and she could wear them for short periods until she was used to them.</p>
<p>Gotta be honest here - if - after spending all that $$ to have braces put on and kiddo tore them off - for minimal adjustment - she could get it corrected when SHE pays for them!!! As for wearing the invisible ones for short periods until used to them - somewhat defeats the purpose and probably will end up sitting on the dresser - forgotten - any type of braces are NOT comfortable for a while - the teeth are being moved - ya want them/tolerate it or ya don't</p>
<p>I wasn't planning on putting them back on- while I do feel that I should have perhaps investigated other options more fully when she said she was ready for braces- I don't feel an obligation to have them put back on
What I said was that "if she decides to have them on again" that the invisalign would be a good choice. Unless she her gets a handle on her sensory integration problems, I doubt that she will even pursue braces till she is an adult. She would have to be motivated enough to continue through the process, I know several adults who are now getting braces, one woman in the Drs office appeared to be in her 70's!
While I agree with articles that cite childhood to be the optimum time as teeth are healthiest then, I also told her that unless something is an emergency- she doesn't have to have any procedure she doesn't want.
I want her to speak up more next time- so that she isn't in situation of doing things just because she thinks it is expected.
That is what worries me, is that she will do something because she can't speak up.</p>
<p>What is sensory integration? What does that have to do with braces?</p>
<p>She interprets sensory input differently than most people.
For instance- she has high pain tolerance- low touch tolerance.
Very sensitive to noise- can hear clearly soft converstation in next room- has little to no sense of smell- pressure bothers her quite a bit- a bump can feel like a shove, but something that would elicit real pain in someone else, she doesn't interpret as pain.
She could not stand to have her hair brushed till she was about 7-
She pierced her own ears- like I said up high in the cartilage- when she was 6- it apparently didn't hurt her.
But she couldn't stand to wear sock or shoes and she had to wear virtually the same shorts and tank top all year.
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I imagine the braces were quite a shock and uncomfortable for her- in order for her to feel that she had to remove them before we had a chance to go to the doctor.</p>
<p>I, for one, didn't realize the situation here. Sounds like you're doing a great job and being creatively flexible.</p>
<p>How do you remove braces? She removed everything? Even brackets and those metal things they put around your back molars?</p>
<p>yea... that's pretty hard to do, the glue on the back of the brackets is almost impossible to get off... do u mean that she took the little rubber things off and took the wire out?</p>
<p>she took everything off- I didnt see her teeth until she got home from the track meet- but she must have started taking them off as soon as she got into the car- it took about 20 min to get back to her school.
I am wondering if the glue hadn't "set" yet- so they were easier to get off.
by the time she came home she had nothing on her teeth except for some glue that I could feel but not see.- pretty unbelievable.She says she just pulled the bands off with her fingers- but when pressed she says she also used some tweezers.
I never tried to take my braces off so I don't know how easy it would be- but it seems like them were pretty conformed to the irregularities in the teeth and would be more difficult than that to take off.</p>
<p>Emeraldkity4 - I apologize - i had no way of knowing what you were dealing with - a challange I am sure.</p>
<p>no worries- you should have seen the looks I used to get at the grocery store- she doensn't look like she has any "issues" in fact she is very pretty- ( well she is now that she stopped cutting her hair off at the roots!) but when she was little-my husband worked nights so if I needed anything I had to take her with me- unfortunately I had many trips where I had to just leave before I got checked out because she was losing it :(</p>
<p>Compared to operating on little sleep and taking care of a kid whose life was not peachy- it is a piece of cake now.
autism and those on the spectrum seem to be increasing in population, so that kid who seems like "spoiled brat" may actually not being manipulative- but just that they can't handle the stimulation anymore.
It may be that , that parent doesn't have any choice but to take her child in public, and a kind word can go a long way.</p>