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How do they scale the front side of the teeth if you have braces on? Seems they can only scale the back side. And Manhattan is expensive.

so what constitutes a cleaning with braces on? do they scale your teeth like regular cleanings?

I'm thinking of changing my dentist cause today was the first time I got my teeth cleaned while wearing braces and all he did was spray a high power salt spray on my teeth and braces for less than a minute and charged me $125 bucks! is this how teeth with braces are cleaned? am I getting gypped? I'v...

Most people here have narrow arches but I have a wide arch. Anybody know how they contract wide arches?

what about clenching your teeth when you sleep? It's so weird. If you clench your teeth your teeth will shift but if you leave your mouth slackjawed your mouth gets dry and tooth decay sets in. A total catch-22.

My Routine: Morning: 1. Get out of bed, rinse mouth, eat breakfast 2. Oral B pulsar no toothpaste for ten seconds 3. oral B pulsar w/ Colgate whitening and baking soda peroxide 2 minutes 4. Rinse w/ Listerine Time: ~ 2 and a half minutes Afternoon and after meals: 1. Brush w/ portable toothbrush no ...

they always pop off. It's so annoying. Why don't the ortho's use Wire ties instead? they never come off.

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Isn't everything recycled anyway? The water you drink used to be dinosaur piss.

Chris wrote:I didn't notice movement for MONTHS!

Then the movements are so gradual and you look at your teeth
every day. You heard the saying "a watched pot never boils?"

Take photos and you'll start noticing changes.

why is that a saying? I watch a pot and it boils all the time.

I've got a secret for you. Eat yogurt. I used to have allergic asthma and seasonal allergies from may to august perenially. Then I went to an allergist and she told me to eat yogurt cause the active cultures are good for your immune system. So I ate one lowfat yogurt every dayfor an entire year and ...

try 11 weeks and no movement. Nothing. nada. zip. no movement. I take pictures every 2 weeks to compare and they are exactly the same. It's like the dentist is secretly torturing me by making me wear these braces. All of the pain and embarassment with none of the benefits.

I'm confused. I thought both docs were women.

I just turned 29 and I said it's now or never for Braces. The first day was definitely the worst. I went to the orthos office and there was literally 30 kids and their moms waiting for dental work and me being the only adult male was really embarrassing with all the female dental assistants around. ...