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I haven't kept up with this as much as I promised myself. Oh well. These are the last photos I will post with braces on...BECAUSE I GET THEM OFF TOMORROW!!!!! My treatment in a nutshell: Estimated time: 30 months Actual time: 22 months Extractions: 2. Lower central incisor and top premolar. Months w...

Thanks for the kind words! I'm definitely excited to see all the progress that we've made in the past 15 months. Hopefully the rest of my time in braces goes as quickly and smoothly. LewisS, I think it took 6 or 8 months for my premolar gap to close (I only had one due to my right canine being extra...

Looking back through old photos...wow. I cannot believe I ever hesitated getting braces. They were so bad. I'm so embarrassed

I thought I'd do better about keeping up this updated..and here we are halfway through my original sentence and I didn't. Oops. I'm in my final wires. I've had the final bottom one for a few months now, and it has lots of bends. Bottom teeth look pretty much done to me, but I'm sure the ortho still ...

10 months in. 1/3 of the way there...hopefully. Asked today, it's to soon to tell if it'll take the whole 30 months. Went from last month's power chain only on the front four top teeth to all the way across the top - and that sucker HURT! Now that the ortho is closing the gaps between my top teeth a...

I've switched to white wine, with the occasional red wine the last couple of days before an adjustment, when I'm getting a lig change anyway.

Braces don't hold me back from eating or drinking pretty much anything.

Long time no update. I've had these things for 8 months now. Time flies. Retracting my top left canine with a short power chain has been happening for a few months now, with no end in sight as that sucker is moving super slow. No working on closing the gaps on top until that tooth moves where it's s...

Month 5 adjustment: Check. Things on top haven't changed. I had a power chain across my left extraction gap last month, and the tooth my ortho is trying to retract hadn't budged. I got a new power chain there. They were going to give me an elastic to tie between that tooth and my back hook, but it w...

This was a big orthodontist week! I had my last extraction on Tuesday (lower left central incisor) and had brackets placed on my last 2 teeth on Thursday. My white wire was no longer white, and it was replaced with a normal metal one of the same size. Things on top haven't changed much. It's finally...

White wire update: after 2 weeks of eating, drinking, and brushing very carefully, my white wire had chipped pretty badly. The coating on the wire between my front teeth was mostly gone, and was missing big chips on either side. Solution? Nail polish! I used white nail polish with a very thin brush ...

Good luck with those extractions and brace day! My extractions are the very same teeth, and I haven't gotten my lower central incisor out yet, that's in 5 weeks. Keep us posted as to how fast that gap closes! In the meantime, I can't imagine anyone will think the gap is out of the ordinary, when you...

Nikki, the hot pink has been my favorite so far! Go for it! I don't like the light pink quite as much, but it is more subtle if that's what you're looking for.

Back for my month 3 update! First things first, check out my WHITE WIRE! My orthodontist is WONDERFUL! I asked her last month if they could get me a white wire for my wedding in July, and she said she'd try (she doesn't use them..something about more friction) but made no promises. When I went for m...

I'm coming up on my 3 month adjustment next week. Because of my overbite, my ortho did not put brackets on three of my bottom front teeth. She wants to get my upper arch moved forward and extract the middle of the three teeth before putting brackets on the other two. What's upsetting me right now is...

I still can't bite into anything - when I have to bite something, I use the super attractive, side of the mouth, bite with the back teeth and rip, technique. That hasn't stopped me from eating absolutely EVERYTHING though. Today I had 2 Starbursts, oh how I've missed them. I about had to gum them to...