Well, we ended up getting to our 3rd palatal expander with Gavin. The left bracket kept breaking apart in the same location due to his inability to leave crap alone. The 3rd expander our ortho built with more anchors so that it could be rigid and not allow for him to keep messing with it AND worked for almost 4 weeks! We were able to turn it every night and then the night before our appointment, guess what? “Mom, my…
Yup, you read that right, the palatal expander lasted for one whole week! We even went on vacation with our water pik in tow and wouldn’t you just have guessed that the night before our follow up appointment with the ortho, my 8 y.o. walks into my room and says, “mom, something’s not right with my expander.” I get up to look and can clearly see one side of the expander just hanging down and not at all attached! I’m…
Our son was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate (BCLP) and has been in speech therapy since he was 18 months of age. I value private speech therapy and we are faithful in keeping our weekly appointments, incorporating speech techniques at home to gain consistency and working on a great deal of repetition. It’s just that at this point we have now added orthodontic appointments to our ‘have to’ weekly list and he has a palatal expander and…
