If you have finished with your orthodontic treatment and are wearing retainers (or will be soon), this is a special place to connect with others in your (enviable) situation. Ask a question or make a comment about life post-braces.
Wow, thanks so much for the nice compliment. It's all worth it in the end. I love to smile now. The journey of double jaw surgery and braces for 21 months is worth it!
smile2006 wrote:Thanks for the kind words. When I go back in a month, he'll file down that left upper canine a bit too. I was hoping he would do it yesterday but he wanted to wait for some settling. Amazing that it is over. I see my surgeon just before Thanksgiving for his final evaluation. I hope to get some of his before pictures as I know he has a ton of digital ones.
Would you mind posting a picture of your teeth after he files down your tooth? I have one sharp canine and one rounder canine too, hence the weird question.
Anyway, your smile looks fantastic. Too bad it's going to be awhile before I get into braces.
Actually with some natural settling the tooth went up slightly on its own. He did a little filing down of the point of the canine but didn't want t take too much off for bite reasons. It still looks fine to me.
I didn't have any teeth extracted with this round of braces/surgery. I had two upper and two lower pre-molars extracted in my teens when I had braces the first time. This was a second go around for me as my bite problems were skeletal but not treated that way the first time.
