Rarely, but we did find a guy with full band.  The pictures are on the GWB site.

There used to be a girl over in the German section who was being (mis-)treated with full bands. But she might well have been a fake and she's stopped posting now.

Many orthodontist's don't use any bands now, as new bonding agents mean that buccal brackets can be attached with ease to crowns and teeth with large fillings.

I got one lose bracket not so long ago and I couldnt reach my ortho... so I started to look for some other to fix it as I couldnt wait with that. I phoned about 20 ortho offices and no one wanted to do it :-/ ... finaly I found one that was willing to help... I still had to wait a week for visit. When visit day came, I went to the ortho office... once it was my turn, I entered ortho room, sayed hi to my new doctor and BAM ! she got full bands on her teeths. She was about 35 year old or so, fine looking woman with so much metal in her mouth that I couldnt see her teeths at all. The view was truely amazing, I never seen anything like that before in real life. She also talked a bit strange, not opening moving her jaw to much, it just made her braces to be more visible... I was so exited that I hardly stop myself from stearing straight at her braces. Unfortunaly she put on mask for the procedure. Now she is an orthodontist... so she could get anything that she would like for her teeth... and she chose full bands... maybe its some real medical case... but it could be that she just like them. I didnt dear to ask her as it would be a little not to comfortable situacion, if it would turn up that she dosnt feel to braces same as I do. I even wanted to ''move'' my treatment to her office, but she sead its not a good idea... that cost of braces include caring for them etc. :-/ She also asked me if I wear elastics (which I dont) and told me that I should wear them right away and If I would be unable to reach my ortho, that I should come to her and she will take care of it... but I did manage to reach my ortho unfortunaly... I didnt went to ortho for a year now, I dont want to remove my braces. Im looking for understanding and cooperative ortho, to take care for them... wonder if she would be my chance... but even If I would get her email or even went to visit to her... I wouldnt know what to say... and Im little afraid that she might just not understand it correctly.

referring to the last post by Braceletta:

  I think it was no good idea to remove the bands and to put brackets on again. The ortho should know how to deal with full bands. It's an old technique, but that does not mean to be a bad one. There are advantages in using brackets instead of bands and therefore it has developed to the usual technique - that's all. Bands do possess brackets on them and the ortho should have been using these. It would be the same like he would have found another bracket system on your teeth than he normally uses and if he would have changed your brackets against other ones just in order to match to his own philosophy.


@ all who have visited the Phillipines (or even lived there):

Did you happen to see anyone wearing fixed braces and do people wear fullbands on the Phillipines these days? What about the use of rubberbands and headgear?

@ Braceletta:
Do you remember other people on the phillipines wearing fullbands? Did the ortho offer brackets instead of bands, too?

@ Braceletta

I posted many pictures of woman from the Phillipines in the "adult women"-section. There was no one wearing full bands.

I didnt saw a fullbanded Person yet too. But in some cases a Ortho use more bands as normal, on the front teeth too.