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Curious question: Which orthodontist in Singapore do you visit? I live in Singapore as well. Your arrangement does make me gape a little. Here's to hoping your braces can fix it all =)! My teeth are also odd but my jaw is even odder! ETA: Hm, it posted a message I had retyped. Here's the retyped ver...

We match! I have the exact same issues as you do (or did) - my upper front teeth are way in the back, making the two next to them stick out like fangs. I have also been given the option of either jaw surgery or extractions, or I could chose to ignore both. I'm leaning more to the 'get my teeth strai...

Wasn't all that self conscious myself. I am the girl who, on a yearly basis, ends up with orange hair because of experiments where I go from blonde to brunette/redhead, then go dye it back to blonde which always turns out badly initially :roll: braces were a laugh after that! For some people I can s...

I'm a Dutch girl, but am living in Singapore currently (Expat Child).

Well, here they are, my first lig colours. I walked in and my orthodontist just asked straight away "Do you want any colours?" :lol: He found mine interesting - said girls usually went for pink. When I explained to him the reasoning, he had a good laugh. "Mood Ligs" seems to be a...

Currently, I'm giving clear 'no' signals to jaw surgery if my teeth/bite come out look a fair bit better in the end. Jaw surgery is, in my eyes, a final resort not completely necessary. My father has my jaw, and he looks fine and can still eat well. I'm my ortho's completely willing victim to get my...

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w96/lea72104/SheleahsPictures109.jpg My first "official" color on my "official" brace day! (i say official because last week i only got spacers and some brackets and today i got everything else!) OOh! that's what I was thinking of - or red and ...

Has anybody ever had red and orange? I may be planning this combination for my next appointment *grins*

Red=the pain of upcoming exams
Orange=Dutch National Day!

*hugs* I know the feeling - yesterday, when the pain suddenly flared up, I was doing little attempts at pulling my teeth, haha. Today the worst seems to have passed :). Chewing certainly helped, in particular on the most sore areas (do this in private: I was doing little 'eep!' noises each time I tr...

I've found, being newly braced, that the best way to get around the eating issues is to find an eating 'technique' that will help you avoid the painful and sore areas... For me, it's the left jaw :? that has the least tension on it, so I've been chewing with that one. I managed bread with crusts and...

Wow! I can't believe it - barely 2 days in and I can eat perfectly fine again! I survived yesterday on a milkshake and blended fruits and veggies, but this morning I woke up and I've eaten what I wanted throughout the day. Nobody is really noticing my braces :lol:. I really have to tell people to ha...

Thank you for the warm welcomes :D They make me feel pretty good about the metal mouth. Without this forum, I'd never have found out about the salt water rinses - they are a livesavers! Great that your journey has started and at such a young age! :dance: *grins* yeah, I guess I'm very young still, c...

Thank you very much for posting about your surgery! It is helping me a lot with making a choice about whether or not I'll opt to have the jaw surgery a year from now or not

Hello fellow metal mouths :). I'm a 17-year-old Dutch girl, who oddly enough lives in Singapore. I got my braces put in yesterday (March 6th) to correct, as I lovingly tend to call them, my fangs (I was capable of putting my front teeth over my lips, and do a pretty good vampire impression). I only ...