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From what the ortho said yesterday, the lower braces are needed to move the front bottom teeth back. Also, here's another picture where you can see my canines sticking out and you can also see how my upper teeth aren't straight across (front teeth are higher up than the back ones.) http://img24.imag...

Congrats. It's a huge step and usually well worth it!

I'm excited too!

Wow, if you did get braces, you'd probably be in them for a very short amount of time since it'd be just to fix your bite. If my smile looked like yours, I'd be really happy with it. Thanks, Melissa. That's nice of you to say, but we are always hardest on ourselves :) So, I went to the ortho consul...

bbsadmin wrote:Just wondering, have you consulted an orthodontist yet with your questions?

Not yet. I'll be making an appointment to visit several Ortho's in the next several weeks. I just wanted to get some background information from actual patients on this forum before I proceeded.

Thanks.

Hello, I'm 28/M and am interested in improving my smile line (make smile more gummy since my anterior incisors only show half of the teeth) AND fix my edge-to-edge bite (if necessary.) Since my front teeth are higher than the back teeth, it looks like I have fangs (my cuspids are longer.) Here are s...