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I feel you, it's been a week since I had a proper chewy meal and I feel a bit like its been a year ah well, it will all be worth it in the long run!

I think I've lost nearly 3lbs in the week since I've had them on, bit of a silver lining there! I've been using wax for the first time the past couple of days as my mouth is all chewed up from pokey ends. The first time I used it I completely forgot I had it in and when I went to brush my teeth near...

Your teeth look phenomenal!!

Hello all, thanks for the comments :) today has been the first day since I got braced that I haven't had to take pain killers, but I'm still unable to chew without pain and so I've been on a diet of pasta, soup and rice pudding since Thursday which has got me feeling a little down. I absolutely love...

Hi Angel. Hope you don't mind me saying, but I've really enjoyed having a read through your story and seeing the extent if our progress because I have a similar sized gap between my two front teeth to you so seeing how fantastic your teeth look in such a short space of time has really motivated me. ...

I may possibly be having a frenectomy and composite bonding depending on the final result. Planning on doing an at home whitening treatment too if that counts!

Good luck with your journey it took quite a while for me to actually get to the point of doing it too, hard to believe I'm now sat here with them on when its taken so long to get here.

Thank you for the kind comments! I tried to floss earlier and my central two incisors are suddenly so close together that I can't thread floss through them and I managed to cause myself some pain trying to get the floss in and out At this rate I'm going to have to invest in a waterpik!

Thanks! Back from the ortho, teeth feel very tight but I took two ibuprofen and so far no pain. Dug out my camera so I can take my first day pics, hope I see a lot of movement quickly!

Hello everyone! I'm starting my brace journey tomorrow morning at 11am and I'm ridiculously excited. I've had clear brackets on the majority of my teeth and spacers for the past week, for some reason my ortho prefers to have the brackets cement for a week before attaching the wire. I'm 22 but I've s...

I've had spacers on for the first week but they haven't bothered me too much. The day after getting them my entire jaw was sore and that lasted a couple of days, and I've been unable to chew anything due to molar pain when biting down since I had them in, but other than when I try to chew I don't fe...

I'm a day later than you, getting mine on tomorrow morning. Good luck! I've stocked up on enough soup and rice pudding to last me an entire year in preparation!

Congrats! I had my brackets and spacers on last Thursday and I will be officially braced in two days time. I can't wait! Good luck on your journey.