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Same here; just went about my normal life.

Hi wendydong, I waited about 8 months but I suppose I didn't have to. It's just that I needed to check on my TMJ and getting the MRI took a while, then back to the occlusion specialist and only then to the ortho, who's always extremely booked months in advance, so most of the time was pointless wait...

Oh, and in reply to Mpkh, I know braces are limited in what they can do, but here we're talking about moving teeth up or down, it's no biggie. It's really just about gluing the brackets further up or down on the crown. Or, as I asked her very specifically, "don't move them vertically as I like ...

Thanks again for both your replies. I do agree that asking for a "natural" smile can be somewhat vague, but I was super specific about what i wanted. I told her that one of my greatest disappointments with the previous treatment was to get all the front teeth leveled by their tips, making ...

Braces are on. Self-ligating are rather bulky... Now that I see them on,there is not a lot of alignment to do, though correcting the angle of one central incisor may be more time consumingThere could be less still but somehow I was just not able to convey strongly enough that I wanted a normal, natu...

I'm getting self-ligating braces next Monday, top arch only. I'm hoping that I won't have to go into square wires, so as to mess with my teeth the least possible. Just trying to fix some undue contacts, missing and wrongfully extracted premolar and unnatural smile (plus relapse), all thanks to my fo...

By the way @ assertives, I can assure you I've done more wear to my teeth while in braces and post braces (relapse period) that in the other 40 years of my life... So I'm 100% sure braces were bad for me. The first time around I really trully only needed to solve the upper crowding to continue livin...

Thanks for both your replies! I hear what you're saying and while I fundamentally agree with your opinions I know I don't have the mental availability for another 3 years of braces... The first round of 2 years was already a mental pain for me, as braces was never something I wanted and only did it ...

Hello everyone, I had a consult at a new ortho's office, following the disastrous first "treatment" with the worst ortho ever, that caused way more problems than I started off with. This new ortho explained that my situation is now complicated due to the missing premolar (that I should not...

It's really great when you find an ortho that solves your problems instead of focusing on the non-problems, thus creating problems that were never there... Your teeth look very nice!

I'm afraid you may never be able to fully reeducate your tongue in a smaller mouth... I myself have seen my arches narrow down a little (not sure how much really, but may find out in a couple of hours at my new ortho when I go in for retreatment options). The fact is, I developed a small speech prob...

Very strange call, I would say... They usually put molar buildups or a front bite plane to avoid damage to front teeth.

I'm the one who wanted relapse as I hated my teeth after 2 useless years of braces. The work wasn't done but my former Ortho was an incompetent idiot and I was so fed up with her that I asked to get the braces removed and refused retainers. Amongst many stupid things (pointless extractions for one) ...

My list of "things you shouldn't eat" was trashed very soon after I got braces. I like to eat, so I just chewed through the pain :lol: though I was careful not to rip out all my brackets. Toasts were chewed carefully and never biting down all the way, but I can't remember stopping eating t...

Sorry that I missed this post... You're right, my treatment goals are not the same, but my mindset is the same (ie, move teeth as little as possible and leave them alone if possible) and now I'm sure about what I need and want done, and I won't be talked or lied into doing what I don't want. I alrea...