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#retainerlife

Seriously, how do you live with this thing? Crazy.

Update: I went in to my ortho's office. The assistant placed my lower fixed retainer and the ortho placed the upper one. The retainer I have is not an Essix, it is a Hawley. It's really uncomfortable and tastes funny :( Although I think I can get used to it. I feel a bit better today. The ortho ackn...

So... braces are off. Not 100% happy with the results. My front tooth is still crooked and maybe 1 mm further out than the other. My ortho said he couldn't do better with the linguals. He said that he would adjust a bit more with the retainer, although I'm not sure he will. I will go in tomorrow and...

I got my top braces on in October of last year and my bottoms on in feb of last year. I wore an expanded on top for a few months. I didn't have no teeth removed expect wisdom teeth a long time ago. I had a lot of crowding and a small palette. I also struggle with the same issues that orchid has. Wh...

It's been a while since I've posted here. Life with braces is getting kind of boring and I'm ready to get rid of them. Unfortunately my left front tooth is stubborn and not the right angle yet so I'm guessing maybe 6 more months or so. My facial changes are still prominent, but haven't gotten that m...

Soooo. Had an adjustment yesterday. It was very uneventful and I left the ortho feeling quite unsatisfied. I was looking forward to the pain, feeling movement and knowing that my great smile is on its way ... but instead he just looked in my mouth, twisted the steel ligature some more and said every...

I hope you're feeling better! I'm curiously awaiting pictures since we have the same configuration

When I got elastics, I thought they were the worst thing that has happened to me since PMS. After a week I got used to them and now it feels weird to be without them. The pain subsided in that first week and even though it's still hard to eat in public sometimes, I like the feeling they give me. Pla...

Hi Orchid, I'm having what sounds like the same configuration as you - Lingual uppers and bottom ceramics by American Orthodontics 'radiance' - I think! They are going on all at once on the 31st of July 2015. I've been reading through your story so far and I was curious to know if you ever asked yo...

I'm not going to the ortho until August but I feel that something is happening. My wonky front tooth is still not in line and my bite is now open and terrible, but everything does look better! I guess I'll just have to trust the process. I've worn my elastics 24/7 except when brushing and during som...

Hi Kribbo, I'm very sorry to hear about your horrible experience. Changes in your face mess with you. I know. The only comfort I can offer is that, although the changes are still there, I feel less panic-y over them. I think I regained some volume (very little) once I could use my chewing muscles be...

After reading up I found out that I'm wearing class II elastics and I'm instructed to wear them 24/7.

I got elastics yesterday. I've been looking forward to this for some months now and I felt like a kid when my ortho pulled them out and showed me how to use them. After a night in them ... I no longer feel as excited. I woke up in the middle of the night and both of my arches were hurting like crazy...

So it's starting to hurt pretty badly from the elastics and I'm actually getting tired from the pain but here's a progress pic. The photo to the right is taken today after the adjustment. You can se the steel tie/ligatures (I don't know what it's called) on my very stubborn front tooth. http://i60.t...

So I had my adjustment today! It was almost as painful as the last one. My ortho changed both wires and I'm actually on my last one in my lower arch. He filed my bottom teeth some and now they look pretty. It's weird cause I've never thought about my teeth as "pretty" before. After the wir...