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by Princess Braceface
Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:10 am
Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
Topic: Raising / Saving Money to get braces?
Replies: 20
Views: 4694

robbing the kids?

Sorry, I haven't got any suggestions for making/saving money. I just wanted to say don't feel that you're depriving your kids. they are very young and have a very different outlook to older kids. It's when they get to teenagers that they notice what you're spending your money on! They also demand a ...
by Princess Braceface
Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:36 am
Forum: Metal Mouth Forum
Topic: Wondering whether to get braces
Replies: 7
Views: 1388

go for it!

Hi, you sound really worried about it all. Calm down! I think if you have the opportunity to get your treatment done now on the NHS - for free - you should go for it. Please don't wait until twenty years down the road when you end up waiting even longer for treatment on the NHS, and possibly not bei...
by Princess Braceface
Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:51 am
Forum: The Bracket Club
Topic: Braces in the UK.
Replies: 8
Views: 2688

adults in braces in uk?

Well, I'm 42 and althought not braced I will be soon. I live in a village and our ex pub landlady had a full metal mouth with lots of elastics so she was a bit of an inspiration to me! She had hers off last year and I thought, that could be me! I also came across a lady in her 50's at a funeral befo...
by Princess Braceface
Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:44 am
Forum: The Bracket Club
Topic: Another UK Newbie!
Replies: 3
Views: 1214

How old?

Ha, I can see there is a lot of us over thirty crowd on here. I'm 42!!! I had a brace, removable type, when I was about 20 but had a lot of trouble with a nasty abcess and swollen face and unsympathetic dentist and because it was removable, it was too easy to give up! How I wished my mother had insi...
by Princess Braceface
Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:51 am
Forum: The Bracket Club
Topic: Another UK Newbie!
Replies: 3
Views: 1214

Another UK Newbie!

Well, after deliberating for years I've decided old crooked smile has to go! I had a consult with an ortho last Friday and am going to see another one this Friday. Thought it would be useful to get two opinions/quotes. Not that great to get 2 consultation fees though! Did anyone else get two opinion...