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an acquaintance of mine got his front tooth knocked out as a kid so he had to extract it later in his teen years. he did he braces and extract the entire tooth, then at the same time the ortho had sort of a placed a fake tooth bonded to the metal ligatures. his ortho plans to do an implant for him o...

thank you. but my 2 front teeth seems to be off a little and my midline is a little off as well.
hope the ortho plans to correct it.

my ortho is a really quiet guy, he hardly speaks but he does a great job at it so no complains.

Well it all depends. I had upper 2 extractions and couple of months down another 2 bottoms. I believe your ortho knows his stuff so don't worry about it! Usually straightening and getting the tooth in line w the arch is done before closing up some of the gaps. Followed by fine tuning before debracin...

I chew gum
I eat pizza (with the crust)

Basically theres only 2 things I dont eat.
1. Whole Apples
2. Nuts

these 2 makes it absolutely annoying, not worth the hassle.

I uploaded some images of my progress. Always delighted to see the subtle changes! Let me know what you think! To those pondering whether or not should you do braces, I say GO FOR IT! Mid Nov http://imageshack.com/a/img913/231/bm8X3T.jpg Late Nov http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4916/Qk2Mwt.jpg Dec ht...

yea I am extremely happy with the results. im around 16 months in. Orthos said amy treatment would 18-24months depending on the progress. Cant wait to get em out. Will try to post my updated photos later on! Amazing changes haha. And my extraction sites has all closed. Ortho did re-bracing on the br...

Thank you all! They still hurt a lot. Literally still on liquid diet ever since the last adjustment.

I'm about 10-14months more!

the last time i posted smth was when the ortho had some weird spring and it hurts. ALOT had my 10th (i think) adjustment today and he had weird wire ligatures twisted to my teeth and 4 transparent bands pulling the 4 gaps to close em up(cant be removed) and yes THEY HURT. Decided to post some photos...

Thank you all! I'll be updating more photos in the near future. Excited to post improves results!

Thank you all!

Im also very excited to see the progress! Will post more if there's more significant differences!

Hi all fellow brace-faced! I've been quietly following the various threads and see other's progression. Always thrills me to see fellow brace-faced getting huge progressions. Went to the ortho today, he placed some springs and permanent non-removable rubber bands to pull my premolar and molar space ...

[quote="Angel21"]I'm glad this is helping some people :) hopefully we can keep this thread going for a while so it doesn't disappear into oblivion! Just a few more thoughts on the matter! If crowding is mild, a palette expander should work. I think all those facial sinking in problems happ...

congrats getting debraced!

I got my bicuspids removed and I'm starting to feel the wrath haha. Rice get stuck in the extraction gaps and I'm not even braces till tomorrow.

Like you I had my top 2 bicupods removed. Gonna get braced tomorrow ^^

Just like most of us, I was concerned with the removal of tooth. My ortho assures me my face profile would not be sunken as he will bring forward the molars and bring in my huge overbite.
Have a little faith!