One of my buttons for my rubber bands fell off, should I continue to wear the rubber band on the other side?

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I have two buttons on my lower jaw for rubber bands to help correct my over bite. Today the button on my right side cane off. I was wondering if I should still wear the rubber band on my left until I can call to schedule an appointment to fix the other button or if it would be better to just not wear the rubber bands at all.

Derek Hou, DMD, MSD · Answer

Hi, I would recommend waiting until the button gets re-attached to start re-wearing the elastics. The reason is that if you only wear the elastics on one side, the bite is only getting corrected on one side and can cause the bite to become uneven and not symmetric. Waiting a few days or a week until you can get the button put back on won't have a huge effect on your overall overbite correction with elastics.
So TL;DR, don't wear elastics until the button gets fixed and you can start wearing elastics on both sides again.

Richard Gochman, DDS (retired) · Answer

you should contact your provider ASAP, and get the button reattached. I do not recommend wearing it only on the 1side.

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