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Kadessi, my first day of braces and spacers combination... wow... pain so bad it wouldn't respond to ibuprofen or tylenol... I never filled my prescriptions for pain killers for neither my impacted wisdom teeth nor pre molars but wow I wished I had pain killers that day... But hang in there - it get...

Hi Lilwinno... Congrats on getting braced! Your story sounds like mine! Two weeks ago... I got ceramic top and bottom and spacers at the same time (ortho had been on vacay)... Then went back the next week and got molar bands... Good luck and yay to our future great smiles!

I have the same thing with my front teeth... I can only bite into something super soft with the front teeth otherwise there's like a strange pressure hard to describe... I cut everything up... I guess it's normal wonder how long it takes to get better... I miss potato chips! :oops: The other weirdne...

Updated my blog! 4 posts done... 2 weeks of teeth behind bars done!

Updated my blog... now 2 weeks in!

@Benj: I love that you said the extractions changed your face in a good way and made you look younger & better... I hope that happens for me too :) @Diegorgeous: Gaps stopped being painful after about a week when I got my braces on... Almost 3 weeks on they're not painful just annoying... especi...

Location: California, USA Cost: $5,750, my insurance will hopefully pick up $2000 of that, but I just switched jobs and my new job doesn't have ortho included in the dental policy. So i'm going to continue my former policy on Cobra for 18 months so hopefully should get full $2000, but if something ...

I had only one 1st premolar pulled from my lower jaw and two from the upper, had to live with the extraction gaps for several years and know how nerve racking and difficult it can be to put up with. Benj: Several years!!!! Wow! That's scary... Please tell me your teeth were very slow to move?!? I t...

Congrats on getting braced! I don't have answers to your questions as i've only been braced 9 days! You're definitely not alone over those 'what have I done moments?!?' but I think it's all going to be so worth it! It's been 9 days and already my top teeth are less crooked! I have ceramic on both to...

Just posted an update on my blog... Got my spacers out today and top molar bands on the first upper molars. It was kindof easy today they want me to get used to the 4 power springs, full lower braces and upper (except molars) they put in last week; then I have my first adjustment in 5 weeks. The mol...

Thanks for explaining Jen, I feel like i'm learning more about orthodontics every day! Wow the TPA & LLA do not sound like fun - how annoying. Hope time goes fast for you... Good luck getting braced this week :) die gorgeous - good luck to you, I was soooo nervous about the extractions, I had ne...

Thanks to both of you!

Day 5 and things are way better! Back on Tuesday to get top molar bands and elastics...

Wow I just started reading your blog: 10 teeth! Wow you are brave! I had 8 but 4 (the wisdoms came out 2 yrs ago before I decided to get braced). Probably good to get them all done in one go.

Hope you have a good and fast recovery. Best of luck to you

Good luck! I just got mine 3 days ago I also got extractions (a week before) fortunately there were no complications. Hope yours go well too

It now has pics up!