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when i was in the finishing phase my ortho gave me more elastics and powerchains new wires and checked to see if he needed to reposition any brackets. my teeth were also polished. This phase didnt last long for me. They started it in november and i was supposed to get them off next month but last tu...

Yeah im waiting for corn on the cob. I have eatin it since before i got them on. Ive definitely been enjoying biting into food though and eating lots of sticky stuff.

it was an awesome surprise. Im gonna post pics tomarrow.

Less then 20 months after being braced I'm free! I went to my adjustment today expecting a 40 min apt. and nw powerchain and instead i walkout 3 hrs. later brace free. I can't believe how different my teeth look. I cried when I saw them for the first time.

The first time I got elastics I got zebras, which I thought were bad. Now I have kangaroos, way worse. The cute little animal names are actually making me hate whichever animal I have at the time.

Yeah my treatment time is 18-24 months

Yeah thats how I'm thinking, I don't want to get too excited because my ortho is all about perfection and if they aren't perfect I know he will want to wait a little longer. But I'm trying to have a little hope because these elastics are killin me right now. I'm already counting down the days until ...

I was told I would need jaw surgury on my lower jaw because my jaw was really off center but I refused. My ortho understood and now 19 months later my jaw is barely off. It was really noticable before and now you can't even tell because it's almost perfect. I think as long as your okay with it not b...

I went for my adjustment today and now i only have a powerchain on the top, got new wires on the top and bottom that only go back about halfway, and got more dreaded elastics to wear. I'm wearing four now, one from my canine to my first molar on each side and one from my canine to the two teeth righ...

I know how you feel. Everytime someone asks me how much longer I have I almost want to scream I have no idea and just go and rip them off, haha. The flossing and brushing so much doesn't really bother me so much as the places I've had to brush and floss in. And constantly getting looks when I go to ...

ok, im just hoping to get lucky and be out of them by the end of march. I just got overloaded with good news like getting that spring out that i couldn't think straight enough to ask.

Yes they are

I went through a similar thing. Got braces on when I was 15 but due to a lot of other bad things going on in my life at the time I couldn't handle it and had them removed after two days. I got them back on in june 2008 at 21 and im so happy i did. I had a very bad overbite along with a huge gap betw...

I had an adjustment today and finally after ten months the forsus spring is gone along with the spring along the bottom of my bottom teeth and i don't have to wear the elastic anymore. I was told that my midline is now perfectly centered. All i got was powerchains the whole way across the top and bo...

thanks everybody. im just trying to be positive now, and keeping my fingers crossed that i can get them off in the next couple of months. i swear im gonna throw a party when they finally come off!