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The success rate is completely determined by how compliant the patient is with bracing. With the regimen where they wore it 14 hours a day, almost everyone did repair eventually. With the regimen, the newer regimen of children wearing it 23 hours a day, we generally see great results within the first three weeks, and almost everyone is corrected by six weeks. I still have them wear the brace though, as a retainer. So I sort of think of it like braces on your teeth. You get the good repair first, and then you want to keep it there by having a retainer, not all the time, and I’ll have them decrease it to every other day for several hours a day. Sometimes if they end up with a growth spurt after they’re finished with bracing, they’ll want to reapply the brace just to make sure that the carinatum defect doesn’t return.
