Discuss life after braces and in retainers.
Okay so basically my treatment as been boringly uneventful. I guess that's what happens when you get close to your de-banding date right?? (At least I hope I'm close!) I think my ortho is trying to perfect my midline, and I have seen definite improvement since a few weeks ago. Shoot, I better see improvement since I've been wearing my rubber bands like my life depends on it! Lets take a look Week 62 - Almost there!!! My midlines are SO close! ...
I've never been one to smile with teeth. Never ever. My teeth were always crowded, and it just wasn't pretty (lol) so I didn't do it. Now that my teeth have straightened out, it's been/will be a huge adjustment. While on vacation (to San Francisco!!) in December, we snapped quite a few pictures. I was surprised to catch myself smiling with teeth way more than usual (anything more than zero is more than usual) so I figured I would post and share my smile with you! ...
It's been a while since my last post! November was boring, and nothing changed much (just some minor tweaks by my perfectionist ortho), but this month has been more eventful. I had my first December appointment on 12/15, where my ortho decided that one of my bottom teeth needed to be turned slightly. He couldn't get the spring on it the normal way, so we had to MacGyver it a little. We also discovered that another one of my bottom brackets was busted. Of course, the one next to my original busted ...
via my blog: Wired Journey Well one year and a week has gone by and my 7th adjustment is done. My ortho says my teeth are straight, my bite looks good, and my debanding date will depend on how strict I wear my Class 2 rubberbands! He said I am way ahead of schedule (based on their records my original debanding date was Nov 1, 2012). So basically the more I wear my rubberbands, the sooner my braces come off! Woohoo! I think he is just trying to fix my midline. Just a guess, I didn't ...
Updated 12-06-2011 at 08:21 PM by lightskinnnn38
That's what I felt around 2:30AM this morning. I woke up again at 5:30 still hurting. My jaw has been hurting at the "break site" and I thought maybe my jaw was messed up. I also thought maybe it was latest rubber band configuration. I called the surgeon since their office opened first, and they thought it was my braces. So I called the ortho. He told me to take out my rubber bands for 2-3 days and see if that helps. (I had 4 of them.) He also said to limit my talking and jaw movement ...
I had an appointment Oct. 19th and the ortho said that he wants to talk about retainer options at my next appointment because the braces will come off soon! Then he asked me about a small gap that had opened up between my two front teeth. When I first had braces those two front teeth overlapped slightly, but after my teeth became straight the gap popped up. My ortho asked me if I wanted to close the gap and said no at first, but it was only because I was scared that it would prolong my treatment. ...
Guess who is in their finishing wires?? ME!! Finally my last wires! I swear I have had about 5 or 6 different sets of wires so far during my treatment. It feels great to hit this kind of milestone in my treatment. My orthodontist was very happy with the progress of my teeth and said that my bottom teeth have really opened up and my bite was looking great. My upper teeth are covering 50% of my bottom teeth unlike before I had braces where my upper teeth covered 100% of my bottom teeth. I am still ...
Updated 10-25-2011 at 07:16 PM by lightskinnnn38
I think it's finally hit me that I'm really in the final-final-final stages of braces, and I'm starting to freak out a little about getting them off. I know I'm going to be all about my retainer, so I really have nothing to worry about ... but my braces have been a HUGE part of my life for the past 14 months! It's weird to think that within a few months, there will be nothing holding my teeth in place! In progress news, my last remaining gap is closing up nicely! It's only been a ...
( +100 points if you get the Futurama reference in the subject of this post) I had an adjustment appointment, and got the shock of my life when my ortho said that I probably only have one or two months left! I could be out of these bad boys by the new year! I hadn't been asking about my time line at my latest appointments ... I honestly didn't want to know, and just wanted him to take his time, so I had no idea how close to the end I was! Right now, we are waiting to ...
Updated 10-11-2011 at 10:51 PM by lileepers
So, it has been a while since I've posted in my blog, but there have been a lot of changes happening. I've had a few apts that helped my teeth a little, but up until the most recent visit, nothing drastic. The most recent visit my ortho put a new rubber band thing that goes over half of my teeth, where the one tooth is still crooked, and now all of the sudden I have a slight gap (which happened over night). My orhto said that this was a good thing, so I'm not too worried, I just hope that I will ...
Yep that's right. I went to the ortho Wed. and I had been planning on asking him how much longer I had till my braces came off since I feel like I've been progressing well post surgery. I said, "So, how long till my braces come off? (insert sarcasm) Any chance they'll be off by the end of the August? I only want an approximate time frame, not a specific date." I was thinking they'd be coming off by the end of October or maybe as early as mid September. What he said literally brought tears ...
Well, braces are over for me as of this morning! I was in the office for three hours! They popped off all the brackets, which kind of hurt on my front teeth but those are kind of sensitive. Then they popped off the bands and wooooow my teeth were slimy :P Then they scraped here and there, put on my bonded retainers and then the ortho got all of the glue off of my teeth. It made my teeth feel like it was burning for a few seconds after he started on a tooth. I would ...
After having braces for a year, 6 months, and 13 days I am finally having the last appointment before I get them removed! Today I am going in to make sure that nothing has moved and then in exactly two weeks (only 3 days before I would hit the 1 year and 7 months mark) I will get them off! Overall I have found braces to be fairly painless. I thought that they were more annoying than anything. The worst would have to be when I first got a spring between my first and second molar on the bottom right. ...
Hey guys! It's just me. This is my first post and my first day with Bracesreview.com, and I have had my braces on for 1 year and 9 months. My orthodontists have an estimated guess of 2 years exactly, so I will most likely get them off in September!! 3 more months to go! Anyways, right now we are working on a few last details, such as gaps and such. My four top front teeth, when I look at it from the side, point outward a little bit, but other people don't see it, so I told my ortho about it an they ...
So I went in for my FINAL adjustment today! YAY! They took off the little wire hoops that they added last time, took off the powerchains and took out the archwire. I always get excited to floss my teeth when they take the archwire out. Hehe funny what braces will do to you huh? Anyway, doctor looks at my teeth. IMO everything looks great! There are a few spaces where my teeth don't align properly when I bite down...but it's hardly noticeable! He ...
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