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Omg I have the same exact problem! Anyone who got their canted smile corrected please keep me posted!

NIKKIBABE!! Congratulations!! I'm so happy to see that you have finally debanded!! Remember the old days when we were talking excitedly about closing our diastema? Phew, I guess that was over a year ago. But I still remember you! Your smile is wonderful and you have super white teeth that i'm jealou...

Hi everyone, i'm surprised I haven't seen any similar threads on this... I'm down to my final 2 appointments and on my last appointment, my orthodontist decided to remove my molar rings first before i'm officially debraced on the following month. What I noticed is that while removal of molar rings d...

Apologies if i'm not using the correct term (not an expert in this area) but I meant having two elastic power chain - with one over another. Its awesome!! Closed the gap real quickly even though I have very, very stubborn teeth. I swear I have the slowest progress ever with the normal wires/elastic ...

Hi Anna!

I have clicky jaws even before starting my braces treatment. However I do realized getting power chains during my last adjustment gave me temporal pain just underneath my ears. If not, my clicky jaw are left in the same exact condition even before I got braces

In my experience, my extraction gap reduces by around 1mm each month with normal wire + elastic chain.
However my diastema gap closed REAL FAST! It moved by close to around 2mm in hours when my orthodontist used a double chain on me. It was like a miracle and I was pleasantly surprised.

my jaws are clicky ALL the time but they aren't hurting so my ortho doesn't seem worried

Does curve of spee happens for upper arch as well?
I think my upper arch are curving upwards, like a smiley face

http://i40.tinypic.com/1zp1lhj.jpg I'm near the end of my treatment (my gaps are almost closed) and yet i'm still having the same amount of overjet right from the start, this is devastating! I raised my concern with my orthodontist and I think he plans to leave it at that because he thinks my overj...

JeniK wrote:Woobster...Small world.....I have family in your area!!

Thats prettyyyy cool!! Ask your family to get braces there (that is, if they require)!! They are so much cheaper in Asia!

1. Where are you located?Sg, small country in Asia 2. How much are you paying for your braces? $4,000 in our currency, which is around US 3200 3. What kind of braces do you have? Full Metal Mini Braces 4. What is your estimated time in braces? 24 months I'm surprised that braces are so much cheaper ...

if your teeth are not flaring out or anything, its not worth getting braces. Think of all the pain and implications involved. Forcibly pushing your entire arch back is gonna cause a lack of tongue space (eventually causing tongue thrusting and buck teeth), and extraction of teeth to make space can c...

I have a 3~4 mm overjet and my orthodontist claimed that its normal and refused to treat it for me but i'm pretty sure it isn't! I thought a 1mm-2mm overjet is much more optimal

I look awkward with any lip gloss/lip stick. Currently i'm using lip stain, gives a nice natural flush
Few more mths before I can get my braces off *cross fingers* gonna run out and buy lipstick once its off!!

Trust me, I have the same problem. My overjet is probably less than yours and I specifically went to the orthodontist to get braces for my pretty mild overjet. I had to get a tooth extracted for that. Fast forward, over 1 year later my overjet is still the same. I realized that your upper arch are l...