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I just read through your story and looked at your pics...what a BEAUTIFUL smile!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on starting braces!! I took a look at your pics and we both have the same whacky tooth growing sideways on the bottom. Mine is being removed (soon I hope) to create space. I didn't see anything about you having it removed (but i may have missed it)...it will be nice to see how you pr...

but thats not to say its been calm over here in braceland! Last month I had quite the gum infection. It was in the jumbled up mess where my canine is on the left side. The gum had swollen to more then halfway down the tooth that is shoved to the back. NOT fun. A trip to the dentist for a deep cleani...

Thanks ladies! Yeah my guy has been really supportive from the get go on me getting braces. He knows how self conscious I am about my teeth, and really doesnt like that I dont smile as much as I could. But I am just so embarassed about the way they look. Actually, since I started the process, I do i...

So...last night I had my first real "Braces Drama" episode. I was eating a piece of chocolate (bar and it was soft with nothing in it) and all of a sudden I felt my wire poke me in the cheek. Yep the thing sure did come all the way out of the last bracket. I wasn't dure really what to do a...

I dont believe I have commented on your story at all yet but I feel compelled to now. As a once liscensed foster parent you absolutely did the right thing. In this day and age we see far to may people saying 'I didnt think he/she/they would do something like X." "I thought I knew them so w...

Just logged in for the first time in a while and saw you had your braces off. YAY!!!!!!!!!! Your teeth are SOOOO beautiful! SO EXCITED FOR YA!!!!!!!

I read your story the other day and finally have the chance to post about it. What an AMAZING change thus far especially with your canine tooth. Congratulations on getting to move into place!!

Just read your story from the beginning - we have similar stories including the fears of dentists. I had a tooth pulled when i was about 12 that was abcessed and although I was crying and telling him I felt everything he yanked it anyway (instead of giving me a course of antibiotics first). I got ve...

Thanks againbrace! Its almost another full week and I am noticing even more small changes. I couldn't get floss in between the teeth on the sides and now I can with incredible ease. Also there is one space where I get actually slide my tongue in between which I couldn't do before at all. I was jumpi...

Thanks Andromeda! I will be taking some pics tonight just to see if I can spot anything. That canine must surely be doing something as I am aware every time I speak that it is there. The tip pokes me in the bottom lip when before it didn't. Course maybe I am just a bit looney! :crazy: Without furthe...

So its been a week today since I was braced...I have felt some small changes already. My upper left canine now shows slightly when I talk or even do my usual "hide your teeth" smile. I also can feel the bracket rubbing in a new spot and notice my lip doesnt catch on it in the same spot too...

Thanks for the well wishes braceout23 and againbrace! I definitely understand the water and chapstick thing!!! Because of the placement of two brackets being on those canine teeth, and those being so high up, I have to constantly keep chapstick on my lips. Those brakets wouldn't be a prob but they a...

Congrats & welcome to AW!!!! I look forward to following your progress!

I am rather ecstatic about how little pain I have had thus far!! Yesterday I did have a headache and one tooth on each side was killing me. Its the two behind the space on top. I honestly knew they would be trouble because after I had them filled it took FOREVER for the sensitivity to go away. Actua...