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Wear your rubberbands correctly and brush as much as you can. Eat whatever but dont chew on bones. That's what I did and nothing happened in nearly an year.

MikeLewis wrote:When I had braces, I didn't give up hardly anything. Not coffee, not gum, not popcorn. I made up for it in part by heavy brushing, which seemed to do the trick.

How did you manage to eat gum? I tried and took me ages to get it off my braces D:

I got my rubberbands today and my orthodontist told me to wear them always and only take them off when eating. My teeth are hurting like crazy (they always do when I go there change my wires and they are so thick right now). This only gave more pain and I can't do anything today let alone eat. My ch...

I'm making an update here because I need this to be recorded in case I mess up really bad. I ate everything that could potentially break my brackets on the last 7 months and I only broke one damn bracket...WHILE FLOSSING! I ate roasted chestnuts, hard candies, really hard biscuits, fries.. Well I gu...

The only way you can help speeding the treatment is never missing the appointments, trying not to break any wire/rubberband/bracket and that's about it. Of course, you can always break something without even being your fault, but well luck goes a long way.

I didn't have dry mouth when I put my top braces, but I did when I got my bottom ones and it lasted for a good month or so. After that, It went back to normal.

I have a juge overbite and had a huge front gap. My front gap closed within the first month of braces to be honest (it was such a miracle). What bugs me right now Is the teeth are not even because one is more on the front than the other but I hope it will get better? My overbite is slowly going to a...

Me and my wax didn't get along well... It turned out pointless as it would fall off easilly and I was still in pain. I healed much faster after I decided to not put wax on. Did it hurt? A lot. But it was worth it.

Ok so today was my 2 month appointment. I received my second wire today (yay) and got a tooth watched over. I had a cavity on my bottom molar (which is not banded yet.) and I got treated before I got my top braces, but it didn't stop hurting so I asked if there's something wrong. My dentist told me ...

Hii so I'll have my 2 month braces review on tuesday and I'm gonna put the bottom molar bands, too. I'm a bit mad because I had a cavitie on one of the molars (bottom) and i don't know weither it was correctly treated, as I feel pain on that molar and I'm so upset about it so I must talk to my ortho...

Thanks for the pep talk, Len! I'm not a coffee drinker, so I don't have that worry. I'm surprisingly calm tonight, trying to keep my mind off my appointment tomorrow. The good thing is I already know our orthodontist very well, after treating three of my kids he's like family. I hope it all went ok...

I've seen changes ever since I put them on to be honest. My two upper incisives were really appart and the first day with braces the closed their gap. I got my braces a month ago and I've seen a lot of changes happening actually, one of my teeth is getting even more crooked but the tooth by it's sid...

Yeah I keep dreaming that my bracket breaks for simply no reason XD

Since I got my braces a month ago I keep on obcessing over cavities. I only had 2 cavities in my life which weren't even that bad, but for some reason I'm obcessing over cavities. Every pain I have in my teeth is a "cavity sign" for me right now, even though I know it's just the pain from ...

Girl I'm not gonna say it's the best thing ever because it's not. Spacers were the worse I've had with braces, after the spacers went off, nothing else hurt me that bad. To be honest not many people suffer as much as I did with the spacers but if you do, all you need to keep in mind is: 1- Don't act...