Q:I only have top braces right now, but the braces on the tooth alllll the way in the back of the right side of my mouth seems to have a broken bracket. It doesn't hurt or anything, but I feel it poke my cheek occasionally. I have an orthodontist appt in a few weeks anyhow, but should I call sooner? Is it bad to just leave it alone? Please gimme an answer!

call. if u dont it can delay the time you wear braces for

Q:i was eating, and my wire popped out of my bracket. its the very back tooth and there's no teeth in front of it until it reaches the front teeth, because i had to get teeth pulled for the braces. and my orthodontist wont be there until tuesday, because of holidays.what do i do? should i just put a piece of wax on it?will it damage my teeth moving process?

The moving of teeth is a very slow process. Having a loose wire or bracket is not going to harm your mouth in such a short time period. Make a dentist appointment as soon as you can fit it into your schedule. If the wire is poking your cheek, try bending it out of the way a little and/or put wax on it. If it isn't bothering you, eat on the other side of your mouth and don't stress.

Q:I assumed it was for information only and not actually spoken by the person being quoted, but I have tried taking out the words within the brackets and often it makes no grammatical sense at all. Jayne Blake

The words in brackets are implied information based on what was actually said and they sometimes replace a word or 2 with the bracketed words (Or rewrite the sentence to make it work better), which is why it doesn’t make sense when you remove the bracketed phrase Example: SOURCE: The boy sped up, passed the pedestrian, and turned the corner. ARTICLE: The witness reported that she’d seen “[t]he boy [speed] up.” Or, to borrow an answer from Yahoo Journalists use brackets within quotations to put words in people’s mouths. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing! Sometimes journalists have to insert words to help to clarify a statement. Brackets are often used to identify ambiguous pronouns in a direct quotation. For example: They [the 8th Federal Infantry] fought bravely under the most adverse circumstances during the Civil War. You can also use brackets to properly place a quote within the syntax of a sentence. To decapitalize a word, for example, Doctor Fielding’s written opinion states that ’[p]atients are often deceitful.’ Square brackets are also used in conjunction with the [sic] punctuation, which is a way of distancing yourself from a misstatement or a misspelling. For example, The Delaware River is indeed a truly majestic site [sic]. Finally, to quote usage guru Bryan Garner (and conveniently use square brackets in the process), [Square brackets] enclose comments, corrections, explanations, interpolations, notes, or translations that were not in the original text but have been added by subsequent authors, editors, or others.

Q:I made a bracket of Wide Recievers it is just like College BasketBall with 64 players and the 1-16 players in 4 different Brackets we have passed the 1st round the 2nd round and the sweet 16. so here is the Elite 8.Btw this is the only bracket it started out with 4 moved to 2 now there is only one.Bracket 101.Reggie Wayne03.Larry Fitzgerald-------------------------------------------------------Bracket 207.Greg Jennings06.Braylon Edwards-------------------------------------------------------Bracket 301.Hines Ward04.Plaxico Burres--------------------------------------------------------Bracket 401.Randy Moss04.Santonio HolmesPlease note that I don't neccassarily endorse every pick.Make Me Believe It

Bracket 1 Reggie Wayne Bracket 2 Braylon Edwards Bracket 3 Hines Ward Bracket 4 Santonio Holmes

Q:I broke my bracket on my left top molar, the very last molar. My braces might be coming off in January but this is the 5th bracket I've broke the last one was from July. I'm 16, amp; I was bored. amp; I was talking on the phone amp; I was chewing on a bottle just as habbit - chewing.so then I felt it break.so 1) I wear rubber bands on triangles on both sides, do I still wear them with broken bracket??2) Can I wait until my adjustment on Wednesday to get the bracket fixed? 3) What can happen between now amp; Wednesday besides movement, will it be a lot of movement , please explain thanks!

Tell whoever takes you there that you broke it again. You can still wear the bands if it's not on that bracket. If your going there on Wednesday you shouldn't have to go any earlier. It won't really move. Btw You worrying way to much if you've already had them for that long and it's surprising that you don't know. And you should be smart enough not to break it again especially if your chewing on something like that. Be careful until January or February coz you've broken them a bit to much.

Q:I got my back braces a few weeks ago, and I woke up this morning and something in my mouth didn't feel right. Something felt loose and wiggly. As I was eating breakfast, I continued to feel it. I looked in the mirror and one of my brackets in the way back was loosened. It's still on the wire though, and it's covered in food since I'm still eating my breakfast. This is the first time this has happened to me, so I'm really freaked out. It's Sunday and my orthodontist is closed. What do I do????? And how do I clean it??

Make an emergency appointment with the Orthodontist!!!

Q:I don't understand what is meant by the numbers in brackets when a score of a match is displayed. thats how the scores are always displayed cro:jpn 4:3(2:0)

it's the score after the half time.

Q:I see this in a lot of translated quotes, but i don't understand why. the quote in it's original language wouldn't have implied accept but only put [ac]cept and the translator wouldn't be so poor a speller to have forgotten the h in t[h]is.i get the point of the bracket insert when it needs to say something like [consequentlly] .

In general, the square brackets indicate the the person who is citing has changed the original quote. One is only supposed to do this if it improves the flow of your writing, so long as it doesn't change the meaning of the original quote. You can change the tense of words, or add words if the part you are quoting is missing an important detail for the reader's understanding, like a name. For example, say my original quote is this, Timmy liked to play baseball. You might be writing a literay essay, which should always be in the present tense. So you might say Timmy is an athletic child, who like[s] to play baseball. You can manipulate the quote to make the tense work with the rest of your sentence, so long as the information is the same. You may also want a quote from a source that names someone, but uses a pronoun in the particular part you want to quote. To make it easy for your reader to know who you are talking about, you can add a clarifying word or name.

Q:I read that Bracketing would be best to use because it gives you 4 (in my camera) exposures and you can choose the one that you like the bestTRUE??? Or, should I only use it in certain circumstances and the other settings in different circumstances? If so, please explain

Bracketing to me is like shooting fish in a barrel with a shotgun and yes you will get a good image but I think it is better to get it right on the first go around by looking at your meter and seeing what your exposure is. As I mentioned to you in a previous mail go outside pick a subject (flower, house etc) and keeping your camera on that subject (I would suggest M manual settings) adjust your settings so your meter is balanced at zero or in the middle for what the camera says is a good picture. Now adjust your f~stop a couple of different settings UP and now DOWN. Look at the images on your computer and see which you think you like the most. Hope that helps, Kevin

Q:I was flossing and all of a sudden I feel this vibration and I see my wire come out of my bracket and I'm just wondering if I should continue eating when I'm hungry or how should I fix it. It's in the middle that's where it fell off

Call your orthodontist in the morning, and they'll get you in right away. And most orthodontists (all of the GOOD ones anyway!) don't charge for small fixes such as that, because it's not any error on your part that caused it to come out. You might be able to do a temporary fix yourself that should hold you over for the rest of the evening. Examine the wire and bracket and see if you can determine why it came out. If the bracket is sticking out or loose, you may be able to wiggle the wire back under it, or put the wire back down and bend the bracket back into place. My orthodontist told me the best way to do it was by using a number 2 pencil eraser, and it worked wonders for me! If you can't fix it, no big deal! Just be very careful for the rest of the evening and chew on the side of your mouth farthest away from the wire. When you go to bed tonight, you may be able to temporarily stick the wire to the front of your bracket using the orthodontic wax your doctor should have provided you with.