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oh I forgot to mention, facial changes are much much more likely for people who already have high cheekbones. Most asians are born with high cheekbones so higher chances as well.

Many people experienced the thin face, sunken cheeks or temples, and protruding cheekbones, regardless of whether they had or had not have extractions. So extractions is obviously not the cause. But so why? this seems to be a question for everyone, me included, and the western world has not addresse...

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Oh can i also ask if cleaning would be painful since the teeth is slightly more sensitive now (and since changing ligatures hurts 😂).

[quote=cbraces678 post_id=507256 time=1554388978 user_id=32123] [/quote] Thank you so much for replying!! I've just started the journey not long ago and I must say it's really nerve-wrecking. I noticed every single small thing in my mouth now and freak out over things that would probably not freak m...

oh right also when he was changing the ligatures, one bracket fell off... is that normal too?

Hey guys I just had my first appointment with my braces and the dentist changed those elastic ligature rubber bands thing on each bracket. It was soooo painful when he put in the new rubber bands, is that normal? it felt like he was going to pluck my tooth off. I've only heard that it would be painf...

Hi guys, i'm new to this forum not quite sure how to navigate yet so forgive me if i'm doing something wrong. Anyway, I just started with my braces journey two month ago. I'm 20 this year and these are some reasons why i decided to get braces: A bit of overbite/overjet, moderate crowding (around 5 f...