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Black ligs WILL NOT stain. No matter what you eat or drink.

Sounds like you only have two more chances to try black.

Thank you abaglady and roost22 ! Orange juice? Oh my goodness... I love that, too. :( The ortho assistant automatically put the clear ligs on me because... in her words... "Well, since you changed to ceramic, I figured you wanted them to look inconspicuous." So, she didn't even give me a ...

I am from Ecuador but have been in the US for over 10 years. I had braces back home but I was a rebel teenager and took them off myself with pliers :oops: so now, I am paying the consequences again. In my experience, Orthodontic treatment, here in the US is not usually covered by insurance. Most in...

Cathy, the color looks great I used plum crazy quite often and it did not stain, I still think that you would be happy with black. I used it several times and so did my wife. BTW got my braces off today WOOHOO!

VancouverJude- Look what I found (click on link): Clear Braces with Green Ligs!! They look so COOL and fluorescent-looking!!! She said she got them because the clear and Pearl ones stained; she knows that it kind of defeats the purpose of having everything invisible, but she likes them because othe...

they just hold you wire tighter to the bracket

I knew as soon as I got home and called and was told my wire was bent and I would be fine. My teeth went way out of wack. Miffed is not the word that comes to my mind. These last 2 months have been the most pain of my 21 months of dental bondage. If your wire wants to keep springing out of your mout...

At 19 months I was pretty much done but my regular orthodontist was not in that day so his son worked on me and told me to come back in 10 days for debanding but what happened was my wire got put in backwards and my teeth went wacko, now it is two months later and FOUR adjustments with alot of pain ...

At 19 months I was pretty much done but my regular orthodontist was not in that day so his son worked on me and told me to come back in 10 days for debanding but what happened was my wire got put in backwards and my teeth went wacko, now it is two months later and FOUR adjustments with alot of pain ...

Still happens to this day and I was scheduled for possible debonding today, but no I get another adjustment and another sore mouth.

I driink beer everyday and haven't had any problems at my cleaning appointments but I will be debraced tomorrow so we will see what's under the brackets

Try some colored ligs like bright blue or black they look good and do not stain look in lig colors thread under meryaten she had ceramics and posted pictures with colors all the time. I get mine off tomorrow after 21 months. Woo hoo!!!

I was told 12 to 16 months and it has been almost 21 and still counting. I think your settling wires are going to be finish wires, usually a smallerwire like .018 and bent to fit your teeth together. Seems like ortho's like to lie

alot.

fluffybottom wrote:In the beginning, my adjustments were anywhere from 6 to 10 weeks apart depending on what was being done. When I hit the 18 month mark, I went in about every 4 weeks and towards the end when she was tweaking things, I'd come in every 1-2 weeks.

same here, almost done, 10 days to 2 weeks