I had a similar thing. I also had one of those railway track braces put in for a year and the orthodontist refused to take it out after two years had passed even when my teeth were straight until I said I would complain to the dental hospital about him. He grudgingly and painfully removed it and told me not to come back!
I later found out that they got money for keeping them in. Shocking
I wonder if the pain level was him being deliberately rough removing it. Does this mean you couldn't brush your chops for two years? I never used a brace.
Hehe, I could brush them but had to get new brushes quite regularly as the brace tended to shred them!
And sure, he was absolutely at it with the roughness. Git. I read in the local rag many years later that he was getting sued for his antics