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Im in the club too. Right canine fully impacted.. took about 6 months to pull down and get into place. Good drugs for this:)

That my dear is a TPA (trans-platal-arch). I had mine for about 7 months, and I did get used to it after a while. In fact, I forgot it was even there except for the difficulty with certain foods, like noodles and things small enough to get stuck between it and the roof of my mouth. I didn't hear of ...

Something like that happened when I was having my impacted canine surgery. The freaking thing snapped right off the tooth when all I did was open my mouth. I didn't even get the bite of food close to my mouth yet and PING! In the same day I got it on too. I was so upset. It was about 8pm when it hap...

Maybe you should get a permanent retainer?

"So, you just let people have their way with your mouth?" LOL. Exact quotes.

My top right canine was impacted completely, baby tooth in place until I was 17 and I had it removed. When I had the surgery, they attached the link chain to it in the same day. That was in November 07. I get my braces off in 11 days!! SO excited:D

I used sensodyne toothpaste for a while and i noticed a slight difference. not enough to keep paying the 5 bucks a tube though.

Also, the floss I've been using the past two years is Crest Glide, and wow. It's amazing, let me tell you. Give it a shot, it's made flossing sooo much easier:)

i chose self-ligating (smart clip, to be precise). they are barely noticable, and SSOOO easy to clean. definately recomended.

yes, they absoluetly will;)

i have smart clip [self ligating] so my wire just snaps into my bracket.. im sad though since i cant have colors.

so.. i have rubber bands now, and i still have molar build ups which weren't hitting at all due to the build up behind my front teeth.. but now they are hitting due to the rubber bands. Idk, something just doesn't seem right. It's like they're trying to pull my teeth together with rubber bands but f...

Hey! I am in the EXACT same boat as you, I have bite turbos in the front and molar build ups in back. None of my teeth touch to chew food and it sucks. I've actually been throwing food into a food grinder and eating it that way. So this morning when I woke up one of my bite turbos broke off. Aparant...

I even had a TPA and things turned out ok.

i just got build ups on my front four teeth today, and my molars dont touch at all. soon will have rubber bands to pull the molars together though. Im in a lot of pain, and suggestions with types of food? When I had molar build ups i found that the larger the bite of food was, the easier it was to c...

Hey! I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but I actually have a TPA in the roof of my mouth. For the first month or so, it is very hard to talk or eat. I wouldn't say hard to talk, it just hurts.. because it really blisters your tounge. I have an impression on my tounge in the shape of a TPA. Howeve...