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tHANKS for dropping by my story! COngrats of getting braced and way to go! You have only been braced for 3 months and look at the progress! Pretty amazing what these buggers can do to our teeth huh, just have to love them , dont you? :) Keep it up and cant wait for the updates! I will certainly brin...

I love how supportive everyone is this forum is ! :) I have exactly the same fears as you when I was thinking of getting braces! I'm 27 when I got them last year. Single yes. And worry crap that it will put me on hold for as long as I have them. I finally got sick of thinking braced or not braced an...

INteresting about the exostosis thingy. I thought ever since i wear braces I grow some of these thick gum , and its visible when I smile little harder. Not liking it, and also the gummier smile. Not to sure what to make of it or whether it will be corrected at the end of the treatment

9 months in and counting! My orthon told me she is going to start retract my teeth in the next adjustment and will be kissing braces goodbye by end of the year! http://lh5.ggpht.com/_S5HB-JlF6nM/S9hkAjY-3gI/AAAAAAAACfk/yRa7ATRUulo/s912/retract.jpg I have noticed even though teeth started to retract ...

Its so common.
My arch sometimes remained using the same for 3-4 months.
I remember I asked my orthon last time and she murmured something that the arch wire is still active, hence no need to change to a new one.

That surprise me teeth would shift even if you are wearing braces. How did that happen?

Finger cross for better news in your next appointment!

I have couple of balck triangle, front teeth especially. All fixied by IPR, thats normally how the orthon go about, reshape your teeth and when it closed up, the black triangle will be gone. In my case, I have 2 IPR done. One more to come as a final touch up before my orthon start to retract my teet...

Your cases sounds familiar. I wear braces becox I dont like how my teeth flare out, both upper and bottom and I want them to be little straighter. All of the orthodontics I consulted (4 of them) advised me to extract teeth. I knwo its not going to make significant change on my face profile if I dont...

THanks Bekah I know, I was worried sick about that and struggled with the idea for months and months!

How are you doing btw? Is your braces coming off soon too?

Yeah , my orthon told me becasue my upper and lower molar doesnt not fit together nicely, she needs to have better control of it and hence swift the band to my 2nd molar. I dont have wisdom teeth btw.

Can I then choose to have a permanent retainer instead of those plastic transparent one that need to take off when you eat since the teeth swift back so quickly after removing?

I am not sure how common is it. But all my teeth are with brackets except for the second molar. (upper last teeth ) 8 months down the down my orthon decided to put the bracket on the second molar too because I have cross bite at the side and she wants to have a better control and better configuratio...

I went to orthon today, get the wires changed. She told me I have good oral hygiene and that next month she gonna do more filing of teeth and start to retract the teeth!! And, to my suprise, she mentioned that yeah actually you dont need extraction looking at this, the teeth gonna be straight. Yes!!...

miss it heaps! Cant get enough of it. I hate it everytime I got so attached to the series and it has to end. First Ally McBeal, then Friends, then Sex and the City and now Ugly Betty!

I seldom brush when I wake up in the morning ( thinking I already brush my teeth before I go to teeth and am not eating when I'm asleep, unless I sleep walk). But I definitely brush my teeth after every meal, just because it's unpleasant when pieces of food stuck here and there, and plus I'm being v...