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Ortho visit went well. The bracket was replaced, had him look at the swelling, but he seemed to see something I hadn't, and told me it looked like I had an abscess. He called down to my dentist to see if I could go down when I left with him. My dentist wasn't in the office, but the other one was, so...

At some point Saturday night / Sunday morning I woke up to a loud POP in my mouth. Since this had happened once before, I knew what it was - I had stretched, clenched my teeth really tightly, and popped a bracket off. Yippee, now I get to go back to the ortho again tomorrow! Luckily, my dentist is i...

Ken, I had headgear the first time around, too, but this one is different than that one was. This one hooks onto the archwire between the laterals and the canines. The ortho's explanation of why I need was... well, hazy. Love him, but don't think he's the best with explaining!

cosmo, it did! I was very surprised by how fast! There's still some work that needs to be done down there, including closing the gaps from the bottom bicuspids being extracted. Ken, I don't think he'll be extending the PCs that way, if I'm not mistaken the headgear is what's going to move the four f...

13 days after getting the first power chains put on top teeth (1 day after second set put on) here is the gap that has developed on one side from the chains trying to close the extraction gap (which is on the right side of the photo, you can see a bit of it). Keep in mind there was no gap between th...

Went in today to get the problems fixed. The tie wires were replaced without a problem, but the archwire proved difficult. There wasn't much sticking out (just enough to tear apart the back of my mouth!), so he tried shaving it down a bit with the drill. That didn't work, so he took off the right po...

Maggie - congrats on getting braced this Thursday! Wish you lots of luck. ---------- So last weekend I started wearing the headgear. I couldn't remember where it was supposed to attach, but the first night it wasn't too bad. The second night, my husband was convinced that it was supposed to attach s...

Ken, yep, I noticed movement on the lowers almost immediately! They've actually bothered me more than the uppers, they've felt loose almost the entire time I've had the braces! gokix, It's very exciting :) Hopefully it means everything will move that much faster! So last night I tried the headgear f...

A bit late on starting a braces journal, officially working on 6 weeks and 4 days since being braced! Hi! I'm Stefanie and I'm 26. Had braces at 12, but wimped out after 6 months and had them removed. Finally got the nerve up to do it again! I was given the option of braces + extractions + surgery, ...

Hi everyone! I'm Stefanie, 26, and this is my second time in braces. Had them at age 12, but wimped out after about 6 months and had them removed. My situation - my lower jaw is set back causing a pretty severe overbite. I was told when I was younger that if I didn't wear the giant apparatus they ga...

I had my braces put on 6 weeks 2 days ago, and had 6 teeth extracted 20 days ago - 2 lower wisdoms plus all 4 bicuspids. Had the power chains put on the top today to start closing those gaps. I'd say the worst part of the gaps is food getting caught, but that's because my sockets are still healing. ...

1. Where are you located? (city, state) St. Louis, MO 2. How much are you paying for your braces? $8295 after 8 extractions 3. What kind of braces do you have? (ceramic, metal) Damon self-litigating (ceramic, partial metal) on front 6 on top and bottom and metal on rest 4. What is your estimated tim...