Karen from Virginia

I have the usual start up story. I wanted to do something for myself, besides being a mother, wife, sister, manager, aunt, daughter, grand-daughter, cousin and friend. So, I decided to get my over bite fixed, crowding in my lower teeth and hopefully combat a growing TMJ problem.

It took the usual 1 1/2 hours to fix the braces on my top teeth. I have clear on the top since I do a lot of face to face with customers and in 4 weeks get my metal bottom braces put on. I have spacers in the bottom now to make room. I was expecting a lot more pain on biting but since my top teeth don't touch the bottom in front yet, I just feel a general tightness and one raw spot in the very back where the metal bracket is on a back tooth.

The one problem I did have was that the last tooth on the left side was too small for a bracket so the dentist is going to "bond" to it later. A little dental wax on the one sore bracket seems to have helped the rubbing...so we will see what tomorrow brings.