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My payment plan is not through a financing company. It is just the orthodontist allowing me the pay off the balance over the course of the treatment. No checks were carried out to make sure that I could meet the payments. It's more of a customer service thing than a normal financing agreement. Hope ...

My first wire was a white one. It does chip off a little bit as you may be able to see from the photo but not too bad. My second wire was a metal wire painted white and was glaringly obvious! I now have a silver wire but its covered with a white powerchain anyway. I think the white wires are only ve...

Well done for talking about it with your husband. I'd spoken to my boyfriend on and off about it for years. He thought my teeth were quite cute and quirky and didn't think I needed anything done but said he would support me in my decision if that's what I wanted. I'm nearly 8 months into my treatmen...

OMG, you have just described the exact situation of my teeth before I started with braces!! I haven't met anyone yet who has exactly the same scenario.I had retroclined upper central incisors due to strong bottom lip, "vampire" upper lateral incisors, retroclined lowers due pressure from r...

At my last adjustment my ortho said he was going to put bends in my archwire to pull my lower teeth forward. He got what looked like an ordinary wire and he was working on it with a little tool for ages. But when he put it in I couldn't see any bends in it at all. It just looks like a normal wire. W...

It took almost 2 weeks from my last adjustment to get back to anything like normal chewing. For the first week I couldn't really manage anything solid at all and the second week was hardly better. I can manage most things again now but my bite is just crazy. I only have one point of contact which ma...

I went to the ortho today to get my braces fixed. Apparently I had dislodged the glue. The bracket was still attached to it but the glue was no longer attached to my tooth. So he snipped the wire off, including the bracket and will be fixing a new bracket at my next appointment. I keep touching the ...

I had my adjustment on Monday. Both wires were changed for rectangular wires. I believe I heard 17.25 and 18.25 but I don't know what I actually got. Still got my coil, trying to create a little more space for my 2nd premolar. There wasn't quite enough space to attach it to the wire this time. But m...

I didn't have any spacers before getting my braces on but then I haven't got molar bands either. Just brackets on the molars so I guess that's the reason I didn't need spacers.

I still haven't been able to floss the bottom middle six so I've booked an appointment at my general dentist to get them cleaned on Monday. Please tell me this isn't going to hurt too much! Just over 2 weeks before I go back for my next adjustment and I feel like there's been no progress since the l...

My written treatment plan says 18-21 months. My ortho told me verbally he thought it would be 18 months but he wouldn't commit to that on paper.

I'm now 3 weeks into my lower braces and I haven't seen one iota of movement yet. Very frustrating. I've noticed the reason I can't floss the middle six is because the brackets are glued off to one side and therefore touch the adjoining tooth. I assume this is because the teeth are slanted and need ...

One week in with the lower braces... The rubbing inside my bottom lip has worn off and I don't need the wax anymore. No pain which is great. Chewing was very difficult for the first 5 days but it's getting easier and I'm back on "normal" food as far as that is possible with braces. Inciden...

Right side including not very good picture of the space making coil:- http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/9048/lowerrightbefore.jpg http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2792/cimg2699j.jpg Please excuse the wax!! The coil and wayward 1st premolar:- http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4649/cimg2718.jpg Ne...

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Pics aren't very good, it's really tricky to try and take a good photo and in focus!