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Chewing sugar free gum is helpful, or look up xylimelts

You should call up the orthodontic office to check, but it's usually around full time for the first 6 months and then nightly for the rest of your life

Hey I just wanted to let you know that I like reading your updates and keeping up with how you're doing, and I probably missed this part but how old are you? And I'm so sorry about how expensive braces are, that sounds awful. Here I was complaining about having to pay for oral surgery anesthesia a c...

[quote="alivh"]I eat soooo many *forbidden* things and in the forbidden way (biting). Ex: my mom makes me cut my apples, but whenever she's not around, I bite. #rebel :D I only brush twice a day and NEVER floss[/quote] Doesn't that hurt? I was eating some cantaloupe just yesterday and my g...

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Oh wow, that shower version of the waterpik is super cool. It's definitely going on my wish list

Congrats!

That's interesting, in most cases the braces are put on first and the gold chain is attached to the impacted tooth during the exposure surgery and then that chain is attached to the arch wire. I also haven't heard of bite plates being given for exposures before, did your follow-up occur yet? I'm cur...

Yeah but since we're new users we need to make a few posts before all features are enabled for us

I've seen a lot of other posts on this forum saying that powerchains worked for them in a matter of days, and my canine finally fully came down but now there's a gap between it and my front teeth so I was wondering how long it took you guys to finish closing large gaps (~5mm) around the lowered cani...

A little bit of root resorption is a common side effect of braces from everything I've read, what matters is the severity so if your dentist said it's fine it hopefully will remain so. My roots were going through resorption a few months back when my canine got ankylosed so I got a subluxation surger...

The layout is great on mobile, but Chrome on Android isn't my favorite so I was wondering if there was an app available

This story is fascinating, I'm also so terribly sorry about everything you've been through. I even made an account just so I could finish reading your experience, and I'm not sure if you're still active but I was wondering if anything had changed from the last time you posted?