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just imagine the wire straightening. and now imagine the new position of your tooth

no. its me with braces

my sentence was 1.5 year-2 years, now I have them for 2.5 years my ortho wanted to have the top braces removed. I was not happy at all and now I will start with a new ortho. sentence 8-10 months. I hope i will not have to visit a third. I am disappointed. I don't mind the time, I just want to be hap...

i had 3 of my extractions closing slowly and nice and i also had an extraction that had me really worried, i could not see any progress and in one month it was almost completely closed. so you cannot predict the progress. you have to be patient

He also told me that he was getting off my braces next time and I was not happy at all. I told him what bothered me and he told me that he will fix them. I am really waiting to see what happens and maybe if he doesn´t fix it i will take a second opinion. I have spent too much time and money to not b...

It will get better. 2 or 3 weeks were really difficult for me but everyone is different. I have them for 2 years and I couldn't care less. They are not even there for me.
In the first weeks the feeling that I had is as my mouth was constantly exercising.

kacmins wrote:I had my braces taken off today. I was supposed to wear them between 12-15 months, but it ended up being just 1 week shy of 11 months. Not complaining

I hate you so much right now
Yes we would love some pictures.

verso wrote:I hope you get the comments you're looking for, but I'm going to be the guy who says that your smile is fine. I wouldn't consider that excessive gumminess at all. Just my two cents...

i agree

just live your life. you can't avoid everything. i eat everything i want, i drink coffee, tea, red wine, i eat curry, tomato sauce, mustard and they are just a little yellow. so what? i can't have these two years back, i will keep enjoying everything I want. one time I ate home made pop corn with re...

i am so happy for your progress! your bottom arch is amazing!
your gap is much smaller now!

no i don´t have elastics.
i have powerchains. the powerchain was first used to retract the canines and now is used (single or double) to close the gaps between the canines and incisors and to retract the incisors back.

hi! i had 4 extractions because i had bimaxillary protrusion and lip incompetence. i had crowding too but what i hated the most was my profile and the strain when i tried closing my lips. i am 1 year in my treatment and things look better, i think my profile is much better and lips can almost close....

sometimes i can see a change in two days, and sometimes i can´t see any change for a month.
don´t worry, your teeth move!

it depends. my bottom extraction gaps closed together, i had my upper extractions a few months after and expected to happen the same. when the left gap was completely closed, i could fit my tongue in the other gap. if your ortho that treats you can't give you an answer, i guess nobody can. just live...

hi! nice stoy i have dental fear too, i visited a dentist for the first time when i was 28 (the worst part was my shame about the situation of my teeth, 6 cavities and a root canal-that now is extracted). it seems crazy that i have 4 teeth extracted, i never believed i could make it! for me it was a...