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In the 16 months I was braced, I had two people make comments to me. The first involved a Judge asking me from the bench "Why the Hell would you get braces at your age?" I responded that I wanted to look as handsome as him. The other attorneys in the courtroom burst out laughing. (He was a...

Saw surgeon yesterday. Almost instantly, he knew the problem. He started rubbing various muscles on my face and found several that were extremely tight. Evidently, a rough spot at work has awakened an old clenching habit, which doesn't agree with my new jaw. This is causing my cheek muscles to tight...

Hello all: I had my surgery 8/11. Over the past few months, I've started to feel my jaw click occasionally when I yawn, but neither my ortho nor my surgeon thought it was a big deal. However, last Saturday, 8 days ago, I felt a click and I've had debilitating headaches since then. They gradually get...

Kristyar0 wrote:I was wearing elastics right up until the day I got my braces off, so I didn't have a settlement phase!

Me too - in fact, I had a positioner the first 14 days of being brace free for additional fine tuning.

When I started my journey, I got two wildly different quotes. I was a relapse case - bad overbite and midlines - and the first guy I went to said that the only way I would get a perfect bite was through surgery. However, being in a rural area, he didn't do surgical cases. He said he could improve my...

Conine- I TOTALLY know about the tongue rubbing on the bits of glue that hold the wire in place! I just could not stop my tongue from going there. And like you, I would have a raw spot on the tip at the end of the day. If you are using top & bottom retainers, do you still have the permanent wir...

This is making me appreciate my wife. She always knew that it bothered me that my ortho did a poor job when I was a kid, and she always encouraged me to go to one. When I finally did, she went with me to my consults (taking off work, in fact.) She encouraged me to use the ortho that her family used,...

I absolutely know where you are coming from. A week ago, I was fitted with upper and lower bonded on my front six. Each individual tooth has its own dot of glue. I don't care how rounded the dots are, after your tongue rubs against them all day, it gets irritating - almost spiky. Yesterday, I was fi...

I have the same setup - upper and lower bonded, and I'll be picking up my upper and lower hawleys on Wednesday. He seemed to suggest that I won't have to wear my hawleys during the day, or at least to work or court. I got the bonded ones yesterday, and I'm still getting used to them. My tongue keeps...

Last week, I was debanded. Absolutely nobody where I work noticed. Finally, I said something to my secretary, asking what she thought. She had no idea what I was talking about. She said "I hardly noticed you had braces at all in the first place." Of course she knew - I missed a week and a ...

I got them at 32 after having them from age 11 -16. I was just debanded at age 34.

hi all, i've just had surgery 2 days ago and i've got some questions to ask. Mainly questions for those who have had surgery already. 1. How effective are the cold packs in reducing swelling? Are they more for pain instead? Should i stick with them for a week or more? Should i give warm packs a try...

Got my braces off last Thursday finally, so now I'm in my positioner. I had my surgery on August 3, and it was one of the more simple procedures. I had the mandibular osteotomy (lower jaw) to rotate and correct an overbite. Almost all of the feeling has returned to normal except for a spot about the...

My situation was different from yours, but I did have a misunderstanding parent. As a child, I was a very complicated case, yet to save money, my Mom chose an orthodontist who had literally just received his license to practice. I was his very first case. Needless to say, he was in over his head, an...

Hello all: Last Thursday, I was debanded (est. treatment time of 15 months, actual treatment time was 18 months - the delay was the unavailability of a time slot my surgery). At the time of deband, I was given a positioner, which my ortho says he uses for all surgical patients. He told me to wear it...