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I have a question with elastics. In my job it involves speaking on the phone to clients and meeting up with clients 5 days a week. I'm not certain that my ortho has planned elastics for me. I don't have an uneven bite or overbite.

Can people talk ok with elastics? Or do they become tiring?

Thanks for your comments.. I do feel a bit emotional at the moment. I'm going to make sure I do everything the Ortho asks of me! My teeth are now really quite painful. I accidentally touched them together quite hard before and the pain was excruitiating. How long does this pain last for? Is it just ...

Well its day one with my brace on. Had it put on at 9am. Its not nearly 5pm. Its a bit painful. My teeth are really painful to touch but other than that they have a nice sort of tingling sensation about them! One of my lower teeth was so twisted that the ortho couldn't fix the ceramic on. He said he...

Blimey... I can't believe your progress.

I had my brace on today. Just gonna update my thread with the pics.

I'm hoping I might be as lucky as you!!

OK, well its 9pm here. Only 12 hours to go til I get my brace on. I'm excited but really quite nervous now... The holes in my gums are annoying me. But I guess the brace will probably annoy me even more.

I will post some pictures tomorrow.

Hi Thanks for all your great comments.. I've been told approx 10 - 14 months in braces. It seems quite a short time. So I guess I will have to wait and see! I'm having ceramics on upper and lower teeth. My Ortho said that he thinks i'll be pleasantly surprised at the results. . Only two days to go u...

Hey, i'm in the same boat. Getting ceramic upper and lowers on Thursday morning at 9am.. I absolutely adore curry and in fact all the food that you can't eat with braces, guess it'll be great for the diet! Mind you. Knowing me and how much I love my food, its gonna be a case of where there's a will,...

Thanks everyone. I'm on day three post extraction. Feeling quite good, although food is a bit difficult. Don't have too much pain. Just nagging aches on and off. The holes are closing up already! People keep saying to me that i'm gonna look like i'm back at school when I have my brace put on. Not su...

Hi there Well I had the four teeth out. It only took 20minutes! My gums kept bleeding a bit too heavy though so I ended up having a couple of stitches last night. This morning. It feels wierd.. The gum where my one of my teeth has come out has hard bony bits in it? Its such a strange feeling when yo...

Hi Nat I do sympathise with you completely. I've just posted my pictures in this message board and i've started a blog dedicated to my teeth... http://sarsarre.blog.co.uk/ Maybe you should do the same aswell? I've suffered lots of torment and teasing about my teeth and i've always looked so moody be...

This is me outside the dentist ready to have my teeth out!! I'm 30 years old and have hated my teeth for years. Can't believe its taken me this long to have something done about them... http://data1.blog.de/media/095/450095_ccf8613453_m.jpeg http://data1.blog.de/media/097/450097_99483b1302_m.jpeg AN...

Hi I'm in the UK aswell. Having ceramic braces fitted next Thursday. Been to the Dentist this morning and had 4 teeth extracted in one go.. Still a bit numb. Taken some painkillers. Brought my teeth home as souvenirs!! They were all healthy teeth, but I suffer from overcrowding made worse as my wisd...