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Teeth look great. Did you have any pulled?

I was checked, no ear infection. I was tried on Benadryl and that didn't help. This is weird, really! I keep my ears clean, too. They itch so bad and the one on the left side hurts. It hurts when I open my mouth. Ouch.

My face is not really improving, in my opinion. That ortho wrecked it. My glasses fall off my face, I have a dent on the left side now and I am in constant pain. My ears itch, they hurt, etc. I am a mess. I am just on here to vent my frustrations about this whole extraction thing with me it just did...

Wow the side view of your teeth looks exactly the way mine did before braces. My original ortho told me IPR would not work in my case, only extractions. The second Dr. I saw who looked at my before pic told me I could have benefitted from IPR and Damons, after my extractions. Do the IPR.

It curves outward, yes. It is hard to explain...It is as if my nose and lips point outward. I have kind of an unusual nose in my opinion...I have what my family calls the "Roman nose". I really don't consider my lips protrusive, they are full. I guess the ortho didn't see it that way. They...

OOOOPS! SORRY! I meant to say convex. My bad. Well, I certainly don't want it to become concave afterwards.

I agree.

I noticed in that video that girl had an extremely protrusive mouth to begin with. Mine was never nearly that bad. That was some extreme protrusion, in which exts. were probably necessary.

Good idea. Don't extract. I should have done IPR too. I kind of liked my "protrusive" uppers, it was just the bottom four that gave me a problem, they were hurting my lip. I felt there was nothing wrong with my profile, and I never mentioned to my former ortho that I wanted a profile chan...

Well my face certainly changed. During the first 10 months in braces prior extraction, my face changed a little, it was very subtle. That did not bother me one bit. What did bother me was post extraction. My face in my opinion is wrecked, and i got NO warning about it. Last night I visited my hair s...

I wish I would have done Damons. Another ortho I saw told me they could have avoided extractions in my case. I will have new ceramic self litigating braces soon. I like the asthetics of the ceramics. I think they look cool.

I should have done the same thing Gracey82 did. Settle for non extraction. I still had constricted arches when my teeth were pulled. The original doc was going to retract my teeth all the way. I would not have enough room in my mouth for my tongue. I still don't. My face thinned out so much that my ...

If I were in your shoes I would try Damons, you might get a better result, even with extractions. Just my two cents.

Good idea. Don't extract. I should have done IPR too. I kind of liked my "protrusive" uppers, it was just the bottom four that gave me a problem, they were hurting my lip. I felt there was nothing wrong with my profile, and I never mentioned to my former ortho that I wanted a profile chang...

LOL that article is not much of an article. Elaborate please.