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This probably isn't very encouraging at all, but i just got top and bottom hawleys, and now i'm calling my ortho to see if i can get a bonded lower retainer. I can talk semi-fine with top one in, and not at all with both in. My bottom is just so terrible, it's giving me sores and everything...sore w...

Well...i have some advice for people who want removable bottom hawleys.... DON'T GET THEM!!! Omg, my bottom hawleys are TERRIBLE. I'm calling in on monday to see if i can get a bonded lower retainer. I just can't deal with all the sores that the bottom one gives me, and it affects my speech the most...

Thanks, looks like i'm gonna need luck lol I got my hawleys today, and i can barely talk at all. My retainers are so thick, they are near impossible to talk in. I have a REALLY bad lisp...My name just happens to start with an S (which are the hardest to say), but thank god it's the Shhhh.... sound a...

Actually, this was a month over my estimated braces time. I am definetely enjoying it already! I have gotten so many compliments, it's crazy ^.^ I just hate this little bonded retainer that i now have to wear for a long time. It's on my top two teeth, to keep my gap from opening back up >.< It's rea...

Hey all, i know that i haven't been here in a while, but i thought that i would let you all know... I got my braces off today!!! I wore them for 14 months :shock: I get my retainers on thursday, i picked hawley retainers instead of ivisaline ones. I just didn't think that i would like the invisaline...

I still bite my nails and i've had my braces for 9 months. My teeth never hurt though so i've been biting my nails through out my whole treatment.

Hey guys it's been a long time since i've been on here but since my last post my treatment has been pretty uneventful. I only have about 4 or 5 months left of my treatment. My teeth are looking awesome at the moment. At my last appointment i had 6 or 7 brakets repostioned to move my roots into place...

Yea, thats what i'm talking about impacted and not erupted, well just barely getting ready to erupt on the top, i can feel the tip of a tooth, but thats it. I'm just afraid i guess because of my friends, but one of them had VERY visible bruising, and she got dry socket :-(. The other one threw up fo...

This is regarding a wisdom teeth extraction: I am wondering who had to have their wisdom teeth cut out and not extracted, because i will have to have mine cut out.....i am scared because 2 of my other friends have had this done, and they swelled up like chipmunks and said that the blood was unbeliev...

i have a navy blue powerchain, and i'm sad to say it makes my teeth look way yellow!! I didn't think that it would, but it did :P. I have navy and light blue ligs on top, and a navy powerchain on the bottom. It looks pretty cool, but it makes my teeth look yellower than they are. I suppose its alrig...

Well i went to the ortho today and, They poked around in my mouth for a second, then they took all my ligs and my powerchaing off. They took and x-ray of my head, and then they proceeded to tell me that i have some nasty looking wisdom teeth coming in and i'd have to have them removed in the near fu...

Its where they take x-rays of your teeth, and decide whether they need to reposition brackets, add elastics etc etc. I suppose its mainly to see if the roots are in the right position, or if they are still in the moving process. I'm really not all that sure, i guess i'll have to get back to you on t...

I am so excited because i have my first PNL appointment tomorrow! I guess at this appointment they are going to see if my roots are all in the right spots and decide whether they can move into the leveling and fine tuning stage :D. I am really excited cuz i really want to get the braces thing over w...

i tried mine just the other day, and it was AWESOME it was so easy to floss my molars. I couldn't fit in in between my front four teeth because of a power wire in weaved in out of of the bracket, but everywhere i got too!! The bendy tip is......stupendous!!!!

OMG she looked so pretty, she was so happy she couldn't stop smiling, and that teeny weeny little wire everyone is so worried about people seeing, you can barely see it, its practically invisible :D. She had pink white and black camoflauge(sp?)on top, and purple with silver streaks on the bottom(bot...