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I am so jazzed, I have my debanding appointment. VERY exciting!

I never imagined that my teeth would look this good!

Here are my green ligs - good progress comparison pic too!

My very last molar on the lower right side (not sure what number it is) is a root canal tooth. It will be crowned eventually but my dentist wanted to wait until my ortho treatment was complete until he makes the crown for it. He wanted to make sure that it would fit into the grand scheme. Extraction...

The pic below illustrates my favorite way to wear two colors. It is hard to tell but I had burgundy and hunter green. My favorite is red and black. Right now I am all kelly green for St. Patty's day. Shall take a pic and post when I get home. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v163/legado/choppers.jpg

I went to the ortho and they told me that the tooth was working on crossing my bite and would be annoying until it did. Their solution to the problem was to put a stouter wire in and remove the coil that was making space for one of my front teeth to move in. They told me that this would hurt a bit m...

Well, I called and set up an appointment with my ortho for tomorrow. They felt that they needed to see me after I described what was happening. They said that it sounded like I have too much torque. I will let you know what happens tomorrow.

I tried to take pics, but they all came out crappy.

I know about the loose part and have been dealing with that day one. I vaguely remembered it from my first go 'round with braces. I can handle loose teeth...what is making me panic is having a tooth pulled up and out. Right now, the tooth is sticking up 1/8 of an inch farther than the teeth behind i...

Nope, no elastics. I did get a coil installed between two of my front teeth to make space for the tooth that is supposed to be between them to move forward. I am wondering if all of the torque from that has caused the strange disruption. I tried calling my ortho and they won't be in until next weds....

It has been 1 week since my last adjustment. The last tooth I have bracketed on my right side is moving up (up and out of it's socket). It is sticking up farther than any of my other teeth and when I bite I can feel it sink back down into it's socket. I am worried that this could really be a bad thi...

I spent a month in Mississippi helping with hurricane recovery. My biggest worry was something going wrong with my braces and not having the resources to take care of the problem. I took one of the cheapy Oral B power toothbrushes with extra batteries, flouride rinse and my floss and floss threaders...

I don't know about dating, but my husband didn't divorce me when I came home with a metal mouth. He is very excited about me having braces! I have not had any negative reactions at all...and I did have a bit of a "social" experiement. Last month, I went to help with hurricane recovery and ...

I know the feeling. I am staying "slack jawed" and not letting my teeth touch. I am very very ouchy this evening. I dread eating dinner. I think I am going to use my pain as an excuse to eat some macaroni and cheese...the forbidden dish on my diet

I have had my top braces on for 4 months to make room for bottom braces and today was the big day. My ortho told me that the bottom is going to be harder/more painful than the top has been. I have one tooth that needs to move forward, but it can't until the two on either side of it scoot over and ma...

Hey ya'll! I am a 27 year old second timer on the whole braces thing. I could kick myself for continually losing my retainer after my first time (I had braces for 7 years along with plenty of oral surgery to keep things lively). My orthodontist told me to come back when I was responsible enough to k...