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I don't get on here much these days but interesting to see where your teeth are at Martin. I'm in a similar boat, one gap has closed, 3 haven't. I've had elastics for the last few weeks and at the last visit my ortho said to wear two on on side and one on the other, which felt rather odd at first, b...

Well I went for my fourth adjustment on Thursday and the ortho said I was ready to move up a wire, which means that he could put brackets on my wisdom teeth and brace them too, yay!. He didn't want to brace them earlier with the thinner wire cos he thought the span from each of them is so large to t...

wow, your lateral incisor is barely recognisable! cool

I had to laugh at your dog with a chew toy analogy, my hubbie says sometimes with braces I eat like an otter eating fish!!!

wow your teeth look amazing I didn't know that linguals could work that fast!

Hehe thanks for the unexpected flurry of lovely comments people! It's easy to lose sight of the fact that my teeth have changed a lot when I'm focusing on how they've done very little in the last couple of months. Yep bracedagain it has been about a month since my last adjustment, I'm not noticing a...

ELPI I like yourself have thrown myself into a fitness regime, hell bent on being in the shape of my life when the braces come off. Im 82kg at current, i wanna be 90-100 and lean with it by summer of next year. We'll have to show gym progress photos too :) If you click my profile pic on facebook th...

Here are some snaps to update my progress... or lack thereof! I went for alternate pink ligs on the bottom, except the large powerchain rather spoilt the sequence (I'd have asked for all pink had I know I was getting one - but no matter) http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/2828786236_aeebf37c4c_m.jp...

Thanks for the comments all of you, they're much appreciated! I had my adjustment today and was all psyched up for getting my wisdom teeth braced only to be told "it looks like we'll be able to brace your back teeth next visit"....He seemed very busy in the surgery today and a little brusq...

Thanks Martin :) I can totally relate to getting a bit fed up with braces and needing to distract yourself. It's such a passive and boring thing waiting for teeth to move once they've done the intial exciting bit! I've gone mad on exercise too, cos getting fitter seems much more satisfying cos at le...

Hey SK, looking good, it's nice to see things starting to round out! Glad you can still eat, I felt quite weak the first couple of weeks because I struggled so. I wouldn't worry too much about staining the silver ligs, even when I ate a tonne of curry they only went faintly metallic green and it did...

Your ortho said you didn't have to floss? What was his reason for that? I ask, because I haven't been flossing and feel nervous about it. But the whole flossing ordeal just drives me crazy right now!!! I think in the UK dentists are not so pro-flossing as over in the US, they seem to accept that it...

Just come back off hols! wowee SK they're on and yes rather similar to me. I hope eating hasn't become too painful, I really struggled in the first couple of weeks. Have you got a date set for the lower arch? Reading your banding post reminded me that I'm getting my wisdoms braced on the 3rd Septemb...

No I don't brush after every meal either. I do proper brushes morning and night and usually a quick brush once or twice in the day and I never floss at all since I got my braces cos my orthodontist and hygienist said it was okay not to. I do avoid soda totally and sugary foods / fruit juices for the...

Sounds like you've had it a bit tough there Martin :( hope the pain subsides soon and you can get your wayward tooth attached on the next adjustment. I know it sounds daft of me but I'm really looking forward to seeing it get in line, I bet it could be quite dramatic! make sure you get some pics whe...

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