Anonymous wrote:Have the teen call the office and ask them to mail them to him at camp. Orthodontists are a good time for the teens to start making the appointments etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Can't you call the ortho and get another bag?

Of course she can, why is why she says it's a minor issue. But braces suck - they are a huge time suck for parents between the millions of appointments, the lost rubber bands, the long dental appointment to clean around them, the endless complaining from your kid, the constant reminders to wear your retainer and having to check that they actually do. And, no matter how often you ask or remind them, rubber bands are always an emergency because even if you had enough yesterday, they are lost by today.

It's not a big deal. I had two kids in braces. One knocked off about 20 brackets during the course of treatment. Yes that meant 20 extra appointments. Get over it, it's just not a big deal.

At the risk of doing a thread hijack
I had just about every kind of orthodontia a kid could have from 3rd-10th grade, with some of my teeth in braces for most of that.
I NEVER knocked off a bracket. Not once. That's crazy. Either the kid or that orthodontist is doing something very, very wrong!
And I would be incredibly irritated if I had to take my kids to the orthodontist 20 times for bracket replacement. Like my mom and I didn't already have to schlep over there enough anyway.