Broken brace

[GuestWW]

My DD had a set of blocks fitted just three weeks ago. They are removable - she cannot eat with them in, so takes them out, pops them in a box, cleans her teeth and then puts them back in. She is 11.

Today - typically her first day of 10 days holiday at Granny's house 200+ miles away, she dropped the box and broke the bottom brace.

I have just called the orthodontist who said - new impressions, new brace, £72. It will be three weeks until the appointment, and then we will have to wait for a new brace to be made...

It just strikes me as ridiculous, why can they not make a new bottom block from the molds. Having the molds done is so traumatic for her and the brace is only three weeks old, so really how much can have changed?

Just venting really, as my experience so far of orthodontists is something either David Walliams or Roald Dahl would have come up with!!!!

They can't use the old moulds as over 3 weeks of using her brace, her mouth will have changed already...her bite may have altered.

Surely you don't have to pay, wouldn't she be covered under NHS treatment?

Thanks for the replies - I have since discovered that the brace actually broke in her mouth whilst she was wearing it, so I guess it had already stopped fitting properly.

Lucky we can afford the fee but rather unfair on many who could not...

What not for breakages.