Sunday, July 22, 2007

Birth of a Retainer: Step 1

Ok so for those who don't know how this works. While your at the orthodontists and you have to bite into those lovely impression trays, and you almost gag (some do, because some of the doctors offices don't clean the impressions off fully).Well they send those to us and then we make the model (picture shown above) out of the impressions. After that is done we have the wire benders, shape the wire to the design that the doctor would like. When that is complete it is then sent to me and I pour the acrylic, stick it in the pressure pot and let it sit for 10 minutes.
------Erik

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