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Ortho does everything at my appointments

Kiwi fruit is super easy to eat too! ahhh love lol - just cutting the skin off is a pain Where I live we cut and kiwifruit in half and scoop it out with a spoon! My mum eats them like that too! In special boxes of kiwifruit they give you a plastic spoon that has a jagged edge on the other side to w...

I've been adding avocado to a lot lately. It's makes me feel so much better when I eat soft things and they go down so easily and i don't feel like half of it has gotten caught in my braces

Kiwi fruit is super easy to eat too! ahhh love lol - just cutting the skin off is a pain

I was in my upper starter wire for about 2 months and had it changed about a week and a half ago, I was told I skipped a wire as well (yay? lol).
For my lower I'm still in my starter thin wire which i'll probably be in for awhile

Happpy Birthday!!!

My teeth hurt for about a month and a half, so hopefully yours start to feel better soon
Hope you have a great night

I did this a LOT in the beginning but I don't do it that much anymore... Did do it once today though such a pain in the ass

I did it before braces but it has gotten considerably worse since having them on. It's not every night, I seem to go through stages. My ortho thought it might be my mouth adjusting to my changed bite. I did it before aswell. It got really bad for awhile but haven't noticed it as much lately, though...

I wish I had of thought about my last meal a lot better, I only had lasagne.
I should have gone all out and had Thai and ordered everything curry haha

I had 7 for a week, had them taken out for about 2 weeks and had them again for another week.

The pain was terrible. I was quite miserable

rhibee83 wrote: Or a hamburger, a big hamburger with the lot and take a big chunk out of it with my teeth! Lol

THIS!! One of my managers had the biggest burger yesterday, arghhh want.

I miss candy.. I like to crunch them and rubbing my tongue along my teeth

Mine so far seems to be every 6 weeks. Though my first appointment wasn't an adjustment, it was more of a check up to see how my teeth were and I guess to figure out the next move for the next appointment

You must be so happy with that movement!!
Seeing the progress makes it all worth it

haha i'm glad it did!. I thought it was strange that it had been done like that but if you're the same it must be normal lol but I already have the brackets attached. hmm the rubber tubing may stop it from bending so much that it could come out? I don't have anything on the left side which has a gap...

You should be fine! Mine only come out because the arch wire ends at the teeth with the molar bands on (far back molars aren't 'engaged' yet, i think that's how my ortho referred to it haha) and I've got gaps at the front of them so when I chew on the sides it pushes down on the wire, pulling it out...

They just slip through a little hole on the side of the band. Mine has come out a few times on both sides it takes awhile to maneuver it back in- I usually end up using tweezers

If it ever comes out you can kind of tell where its supposed to go