Anterior interferences is causing composite bonding to chip away. Years ago when I voiced my concerns about it, my ortho had reassured me it wouldn't cause any problems.
I had hypodontia and a mild underbite. I had braces for a good chunk of my childhood and teens, but the treatment turned out to be a fluke. I then was roped into switching to another ortho, who also strung me and my family along for years. We tried to look for other orthos, but none wanted to take my case, they deemed it too complex. It was only in my early 20s that we found someone willing to do it.
From 24 until last year at 29 I wore braces again, including one year of palate expanders. Later, my ortho admited he removed them too early, that my upper jaw was still too narrow and I should have had used the expander for longer. During the last two years I started to have doubts, I hated the way my teeth looked but my ortho assured me it would be fine.
My main concerns were with how my jaw seemed to want to revert to a mild underbite everytime my ortho would tell me to stop using elastics. See the way the front teeth seem to fit in better before, and then after they leave those gaps?. My ortho reassured me over and over again that after everything was finished I'd get composite bonding to hide these gaps. But wasn't it counterintuitive to fix something that, under the correct circumstances weren't there at all?
My other concern was that one of my bottom central incisors was pretty crooked in a way that not only looked ugly, but caused my top central incisors to bump into it when eating and sometimes even speaking. I complained so much about it, that my ortho shaved the back of my top central incisor until it was extremelly thin. It got so thin that it eventually chipped. Again, he reassured me with composite bonding it would all look fine.
I also had issues with my dental implants. On the right side I have one implant that mimicks two teeth and I absolutely hate the way it looks. It's too tall on the top, its too shiny and fake looking and the color is very mismatched to my other teeth. Besides, its huge on the inside which makes it very uncomfortable on my tongue. Again, I voiced all of my issues and my ortho insisted this is the way it should be. I had invested far too much money and time to even think about getting a second opinion, I didn't wanted to repeat the same situation that happened when I was a teenager.
Getting composite bonding was another hassle. It took four sittings, there was always too much or too little volume somewhere creating a crooked appearance. But in the end it looked fine, besides I already hated my implants so any hopes of having beautiful teeth had long been replaced with just wanting them to look ok. This was the final result, you can see how long and dark the implants look compared to the equivalent teeth on the other side. Still, it looked fine and I just wanted to finally close this chapter of my life.
Despite being extremelly careful, about a month afterwards a big chunk of the bonding chipped away while I was eating. Months later, another one. Just now, again while eating, another big chunk came off and now they look like this. I'm dreading how much it will cost to have this fixed, dreading if it will take multiple sittings until it looks fine and that it will likely chip off so soon again because ultimately my ortho didn't listened to me and now I'm the one left to deal with this.
What do I even do now? I'm now 30 years old and I still don't have a good smile. I don't have the money to start all over again.
I forgot to add, I'm not using any kind of retainers. My ortho said my implants would do the job of keeping my real teeth in place. He said the reason it wasn't worth it to fix that bottom crooked tooth is because it would eventually become crooked again.