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ntnch1776 wrote:How long did it take for your TAD hole to close after it was removed?

It swells and closes almost immediately, though there's still a slight bump where it was, as of right now

Congrats on taking the plunge! good luck with propel! I absolutely despised getting it done. Though, you could tell it works so well. I was instructed to wear elastics almost my second trip to the Ortho as well, having to wear braces twice, I had the notion from before that elastics are a later-term...

waiting for my suresmile wire. TAD is out, (thank god) and were in the home stretch!!!!! It's been a long self conscious trip but totally worth it.

It's good that you are doing this now! I'm 47 and just had them put on 3 days ago. Left my mouth dry especially the front. I have clear on both top and bottom and my kids can't see them. It really just felt like my teeth had weights on them. Day 3 and I'm used to it already. Teeth were sore and I h...

Tiche wrote:How does it look like now?
Update please :p

I'm going back tomorrow for another visit so I'll ask for them to email me the photos. It's been almost 18 months now so any day now.... Lol

How long did it take for the holes to heal where propel was used? Could you see the holes? I am trying to get a sense of how big they are and how long it takes before you don't see them anymore? For me there weren't really holes, they swelled up and got inflamed pretty quickly so the whole concept ...

Rolling up on a little over 10 months, and wow time has really flew. Teeth look great. The TAD keeps breaking but... what can I do about that? nothing. Will keep yall posted

I agree that $250/month is overkill! To save money for Christmas, I made a deal with my ortho to roll over my Nov. and Dec. payment to January and I'll just pay off the entire balance, which is about $1700. I plan on maximizing my Flex Spending through work for 2016 so I can execute this brilliant ...

rey123 wrote:Good luck with your braces. I am 43 and I will have my braces set in January. I can't wait

Thank you! Best of luck to you as well!

I agree that $250/month is overkill! To save money for Christmas, I made a deal with my ortho to roll over my Nov. and Dec. payment to January and I'll just pay off the entire balance, which is about $1700. I plan on maximizing my Flex Spending through work for 2016 so I can execute this brilliant ...

Best of luck on your journey and congratulations! As far as the whole boyfriend thing, once you have braces on and you see progress, your confidence will only go up from there and as most people say, confidence is attractive. Once you make the step in the right direction, it's only a one way road to...

Still in limbo, the part of the braces treatment that isn't very eventful lol! So I have a TAD in my arch and the power chains attached from my molars to the TAD have broken so that's about it as far as eventful repairs. My next appointment is the 23rd of December where I'm due for another round of ...

I didn't like Propel much either. I had seven holes drilled with it, also to move a molar and I bled like crazy. The next day it sort of felt like Mike Tyson punched me in the face. I'm hoping not to need any more Propel teatments, it was not fun at all. It was absolutely brutal. Just the concept o...

Thank you for all the kindness ^^ Update: Been about 5 months now. Last appt. I received a TAD in my palat, and propel on my upper molars. And holy crap I didn't like the experience. First, the Novocaine didn't numb me properly, so my ortho kept touching spots with the TAD and it hurt every where sh...

So my bracket breaks. Sure, no problem. I go and get it fixed, as the girl puts the wire back in she breaks the bracket again so I'm like great. She goes I'll get another bracket and all the crap. She goes gets another one and the Ortho comes over and goes okay and puts it on and then says "it'...