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ok here are some pics Before any treatment http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh171/martinboyce/Brace%20Story/_1.jpg Initially Braced http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh171/martinboyce/Brace%20Story/33.jpg Toward the end http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh171/martinboyce/Brace%20Story/50.jpg Rig...

im just uploading some photos now

will post some when they are complete

IM OFFICIALLY UNBRACED - YIPPEEE Yesterday at 11:30 i set about getting my braces removed. I will admit i was nervous, both of the removal procedure and also the results. I had butterflies in my tummy on the drive over. My girlfriend Helen accompanied me, for both moral support and to take some pho...

TODAYS THE DAY its 9am and my braces are due off at 11:30, im anxious, nervous, excited ive been in braces 22 months 1 week and yeah fed up to the back teeth of them, lol, yes yes i can still find the occasional joke lol. well after the braces are off i shall write a quite saddening final and reflec...

Ok its friday....

Braces off on monday.....

holy crap!!

Im so excited. Nearly all of my metal mouth friends who i have shared my journey with have already been debanded and moved on. I shall finally be joining the Deband gang.

oh boy am i nervous though.... eek!

Hi Everyone TumbleDryLow, first brace free day, erm, dont know, there will be alot of brushing, alot of tooth licking and alot of smiling, going to get myself a nice posh hair cut in the afternoon, proper pamper myself for a day. Gracey. yeah alot of people talk of attachment to their braces, people...

13 Days to go, argggh so excited so excited!!!!!

Hiya everyone. Big news update. On monday i went for my penultimate brace adjustment. this is about my 23rd adjustment since the beginning and my last one. Howard my ortho had a jolly good poke and check around my mouth as well as consulting my before photos and record. He decided there and then tha...

I can but ask.....

Howard, Helen or Dani if your reading this (as they sometimes do) can you find out if i can stick a camera in the corner of the room to film my debanding please

Hi everyone, good news and bad news.... good news i have my debanding date, bad news its after xmas and new years. Assuming everything looks good for my decemeber appointment i shall be debanded on the 18th Jan 2010 Until then im now having to wear my eleastics different again, this time to work on ...

I was reading this post the other day, and i thought to myself, i dont really have any embarressing brace stories........until wednesday of this week!!! Let me set the scene for you a little. Every week i go indoor rock climbing with my brother. On this particular day i was lead climbing the overhan...

Hey electrokitty yeah im Leicester born an raised, The Thurmaston area if you know it. Where abouts in Leicester are you from? Ive not spoke to any other Leicester peeps before, a few from the west midlands. Yeah the teeth dont look too bad, when the braces come off they are going to need a bloody g...

I thought i could do with a couple of pictures :D This one is my progress over the last 20 months. http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh171/martinboyce/brace%20fitting/211009Progress.jpg This one shows my lower incisor which has lifted a bit and the unevenness of the bottom 4, im hoping these can be...

ive been kinda told mine could be off before the end of the year, that was 2 adjustments ago, just got a couple of mm to go with 1 tooth, its got powerchains and eleastics bridging the gap,

it would make my year to have these off at the end of 2009

Its actually my bottom right lateral incisor, its straight but sits higher than the 3 teeth next to it, looking at the tooth on the opposite side it seems to sit much higher in the gum, to the point where the tooth looks longer, so extra treatment would surely mean pushing it back down, i think if t...