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Your teeth look amazing! Congrats!

Congrats on getting started with your journey with braces! :) I just got my spacers in last wednesday and getting them put in isn't too bad. It just feels like you have food stuck in between your teeth. It took about five minutes to get mine in place. lol. About 5 or 6 hours after I got them in, my ...

JeniK, Good luck! I hope it works out for you! :) Or that you get them off before then.

klobird, that's awesome! :) I bet you are SO happy to be done. I can't even imagine how it would be to actually get people complimenting my teeth. I'm glad I'm not alone in that it's hard sometimes, though it seems like it gets a lot better, and the end result is a big motivator. I know I won't be g...

Oh and because I can't edit my first post, I'd just like to put here that my bite was classified as a class 1. My back bite is good, but they measured the distance from my bottom front teeth to my top front teeth and that distance is 10 mm. If that makes any sense. I don't really know the technical ...

[quote="Woobster"]I'm 34 (2nd time around for me) I get my braces put on this Wednesday. Believe me...Yyou are not the only one with all those quesitons running through your mind right now. As my brace date gets closer, the more nervous and hesitant I become. It will be a long road, especially with ...

[quote="kids041"]Don't look at it as being deprived of certain foods, look at it as gaining a great new smile :)[/quote] I know. I keep reminding myself that. :) It's definitely going to be worth it in the end, it's just kind of difficult when you go to the store and you see all the things you can n...

Hello everyone! :) So I decided to join this site seeing as I don't know any other adults with braces. All of my friends got their braces on when they were 13ish-16ish, so I'm kind of alone in this. :/ I wanted braces since I was around 8 years old (I'm 21 now). I've never been happy with my smile a...