Retainer Repair (Free Subscribers)

 ***This is the free edited version of the Retainer Repair Video to see the full unedited version you will need to be a paid subscriber 🙂 ***

Here is a video of me repairing a retainer. This shows the simplest method. The other method involves stripping out all the wires out of the old acrylic and applying new acrylic.
Here is an overview of the steps:

  1. You just need to open up the crack in the acrylic about 1 mm with a bur and bevel the 2 acrylic edges.
  2. Scuff up the acrylic a little around the break area so that the new acrylic attaches and blend in better with the old acrylic.
  3. Put separator on the model
  4. Wax the retainer onto the model to keep it in place
  5. Salt and pepper new acrylic into the gap over fill the gap so that you can trim it flat later.
  6. Cure the acrylic

One hint put Vasaline on the tissue side of the retainer so that if any acrylic gets between the retainer an the model it won’t stick to the underside of the retainer.

 

 

 

 

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