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- Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:45 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Woe and Triumph – Neptune’s Tale
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1155
Woe and Triumph – Neptune’s Tale
Better late than never, right? As I near the end of my treatment, I decided to finally document my experience before it’s all over. Sure, I’m doing it the illogical way, one day (I hope!) before getting disbanded, but I’m trudging ahead nonetheless. I decided to get braces to address some issues I h...
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:29 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Braces to start my 30's...3rd Adjustment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33118
Wow...that was depressing. I'm so sorry about that -- I think I just took my reply to you as an opportunity to vent. If I think about it hard enough, things aren't that dire. It's just that I'm more than ready to move on to a new phase of life. How are you doing? Any news on how your treatment will ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:25 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Braces to start my 30's...3rd Adjustment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33118
Hi Flaka! My treatment is going...alright. It's a two steps forward, one step back type of thing. :) Recently, the left side of my arches started to line up, but then the ortho decided to on closing the gaps in my lower arch, and that effort pushed things off course a bit. (My ortho closes my lower ...
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:58 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Blake24 - Braces Story
- Replies: 62
- Views: 20828
- Fri Oct 01, 2010 10:14 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Anyone else have feel they have a low pain tolerance?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2899
- Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:24 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Adjusting to teeth moving closer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1822
Hi blackapple . That sensation you're feeling is the pressure of your two front teeth that are now touching each other. As someone who also used to have a gap, it was REALLY WEIRD to suddenly not be able to force a large volume of air through the space between my teeth. It's something you'll get use...
- Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:09 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Braces to start my 30's...3rd Adjustment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33118
Hey Flaka. I've read a few comments of yours lately where you say you've been in braces for 30 months. Each time I thought, wow, that's a long time. Then it hit me -- you were braced within a week that I was braced, so it means that I've been in braces 30 months as well! Where's the smiley with the ...
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:48 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Will continue treatment in another country
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2092
Hi Flaka, I'm sorry to hear about your recent turn of events. :: hugs :: You've had quite a journey with braces so far. I hope your doctor will be able to make the transfer to a new doctor in a different country a little bit easier (both financially and treatment-wise) given the circumstances. Maybe...
- Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:33 pm
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Getting a little bored....
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5911
BracedVeryLate, you've got quite a ways to go after the braces experience is over. You are more deserving of frustration than I! I just re-read my post and I sound so bitter!! Thanks for sympathizing, Laney'sBraces and BracedVeryLate -- it felt really good to get that sentiment off my chest! I'm jus...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:26 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Getting a little bored....
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5911
I'm at the 2 and 1/2 year mark and I've been bored for maybe a year, and DEFINITELY for the last 6-10 months. What's significant about that amount of time? Well, nothing was happening. In order to address a specific location where my teeth meet, the ortho moved brackets, bent the archwire, removed t...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:08 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Karencoutts' Story with Carriere Distalizers and Damons
- Replies: 124
- Views: 65794
Your commentary on retainers is appreciated. I'm not in the retainer-wearing phase of this experience just yet, but I have often figured that it would be best to have both sets for the reasons you cited. It can sort of be compared to wearing contacts during the day, but wearing glasses in the evenin...
- Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:57 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Bye Bye Vampire Fangs... Hello Spaghetti Face!!!
- Replies: 237
- Views: 98051
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:03 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: Dos and Don'ts for Unbraced People Embracing Braced People
- Replies: 122
- Views: 28052
Don't think I want to talk to you about braces JUST BECAUSE the both of us are wearing braces. I never needed/wanted to talk to you before... To other braces wearers (and to the person I reference in the sentence above): Don't go into EXTRA DETAILED conversations about yours (or my) braces in group ...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:37 am
- Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
- Topic: single- more attention since getting braced..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3745
Hi Squara square face ...you're not alone. Since I got braced at 25 I've been in one long term relationship and dated (and kissed a few...) more guys in the last two years than I ever did before braces. Now, I really don't think this has anything to do with the braces themselves, I think it's like t...
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:45 am
- Forum: Our Braces Stories
- Topic: Braces to start my 30's...3rd Adjustment.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33118
Re: Is my bite ever going to be corrected?
I just wonder if my bite will ever be normal and if anybody feels like this at this stage of the treatment. I try to stay positive but there are times where I just want to be over with this. Hi Flaka, I'm struggling through this right now. I have just passed my 2 year mark; I was initially given an...