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I swear, life post braces is almost worse than life with braces! I went to the ortho yesterday and he did something to my retainer he said "to fix one tooh" and now the retainer hurts whenever I put it on. That's not the worst part, I can actually deal with that. He also gave me some Opale...

I got debanded yesterday after four years of wearing braces and the last two of those years involved my ortho saying "in a few months, they'll be ready." Well, two years later, they were ready and he took them off. I think they're nice and straight (I'll try to take some pics later). Anywa...

I was really scared that they would hurt. But aside from a couple of instances that were more uncomfortable than painful, having my braces wasn't painful at all.

I don't know the name of all my teeth. I'm just wearing one elastic right now. It goes from my top front right tooth and stretches diagonally across to one of my lower left teeth. I'm supposed to wear it all the time, but since I think it looks ridiculous (and I can't talk as well, and I'm a teacher...

Hello everyone! I am a 26 year old teacher from Maryland. I was braced in June of 2005. I wish I had come across this forum back then! I'm scheduled to get my braces off next Friday, but I'm not exactly holding my breath since I was scheduled to get them off a month ago, but my ortho decided I neede...

I'll be 26. Mine should be coming off next week. I've had them for almost 2 years now.