cellardoor
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Well I've been 2.5 days without braces now, and I'm soooooooo thankful. The invisilign retainer has already started to adjust my top teeth. They feel better already.

The permanent wire retainer on the bottom is taking some time to acclimate to. certain foods, like bananas, get under the wire when I eat them, but it's much better than having food stuck in my braces. I'm sure in a few weeks, I won't even notice the wire anymore. Plus by then, I'll only be wearing the invisilign retainer

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The braces have been removed!! Horray!!

Overall the appointment lasted 2.5 hours this morning. The actual removing of the brackets was a little painful, especially on the bottom teeth.

Now I have a wire retainer on my bottom teeth, and an invisilign retainer for the top. The plan is for the invisilign retainer to align my top teeth in about 3 weeks, so I have to wear this full time. Hopefully they'll be adjusted by then. If so, I'll just have to wear a new retainer

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Ok much time has passed. Lets see...

After my last post, I had to go back to the ortho bc the h-chain on my lower brackets fell off. Once that was replaced I was good to go for the next 4 weeks.

My last adjustment was February 25, 2009. At this time, my ortho bend my top wire, and I got new h-chain. Still wearing the elastics. I was concerned about my front right tooth because it had not moved at all since the last adjustment.

On Wednesday, March 25,

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Well today was the day! I had my second to last adjustment and found out I'm getting my braces off in 8 weeks: March 25, 2009!!!! Horray.

But the appointment today was so painful. It lasted an hour and a half (a good portion of that was spent waiting). I got a new threader on the bottom teeth and one on the top teeth. I also have the h-chains, I believe they are called, on top and bottom. Elastic wear switched from triangles to mid-lines, which I've discovered are more difficult to

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is the big day when i found out my debanding date. soooo excited.