Oh nice, another piece of my wire retainer on my bottom teeth is falling off. Guess I get to go the next week with my tongue scraping up against pointy metal again :meru_honk:

i was somehow able to bend it back into place and have it stay there unlike previous times. hopefully if it pops out again i can replicate this.
still going to go to the ortho when i can since removing it is only like $5 per tooth and i'm so sick of this shit.

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@Jens_Rasmussen yeah it's just them basically ungluing a wire that was fixed to my teeth to keep them straight after getting braces removed. nothing too crazy.

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Mine came loose on one side, right in the middle of the covid insanity. So, I accepted the adventure of removing it my self with some pliers xD

@hazlin @Jens_Rasmussen i had a coworker telling me how he clipped it with a guitar string cutter and then he filed it down with a jewel file. crazy work.

@beardalaxy @Jens_Rasmussen I used some idea combination of torch and pressure, to "roll" it out, came right out of the concrete and didn't even hurt xD

Though, I have zero confidence in explaining that in a reliable way xD

@hazlin @Jens_Rasmussen i think i know what you mean, but i don't even have a way of heating it up so that ain't gonna happen lol. that is basically what they do at the ortho though, just use a concentrated heat gun to melt the glue and then snip the wire and put some new glue on there.

@beardalaxy Everything "ortho" usually costs a minimum of 50$ here. Is the 5$ because your insurance covers most of it?
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