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i clean twice a day i just don't floss! so far everything has been fine no decay or buildup anywhere when i had my first cleaning with braces last month ( :

hmm let's see ... have I sinned? .... definitely! been in braces for a little over 3 months now and so far I'm guilty of the following : I eat candy or chocolate whenever I want. I never drink water that stuff is poison. I live on soda, that's my life blood. I eat whatever I can manage to eat withou...

consider yourself lucky ! the ones that make space aren't a whole lot of fun after an adjustment ... not too bad for me after a few days but right after the adjustment they deffinatly hurt.

I can't say what other people mean, but for me i was told i have coil springs and there's 2 springs on the arch wire that are pushing teeth apart to make space and 2 springs on the archwire that are all squished up to maintain the space that is already present so those teeth don't move. it sounds to...

[quote="bez"]Before I got them I thought I wouldn't smile at all with braces on but to my surprise I'm smiling more than before and I feel less self consiousness about my teeth than ever. In a sense it's liberating. It's like "yea I know I have crooked teeth but I'm working on it and ...

i'm in this boat too, my front teeth and my canines were aligned before braces but trying to make space on the sides of them for other teeth has caused them to get misaligned. it's not too bad and i wouldn't worry about it too much unless your orthodontist is suggesting that your nearing the end of ...

i don't know what they are called but i have 4 coils on my braces, 2 are pushing ( open coils ? ) and 2 look like they were never stretched out, the orthodontist said these were there to maintain space. i can move the ones that aren't stretched around on the arch wire they aren't tight at all. the o...

so far it's not pushing anything out as far as i know. I'm really hoping i'll be able to avoid the tongue crib but i agree with the springing things on you comment which makes it all the more worriesome that one day it will happen without warning.

when i was looking for information about braces before i got them i kept reading about all kinds of different appliances and tongue cribs for tongue thrusting, i never thought too much about it at the time but now that i have braces my top canines hit a bracket on the lower teeth and as such my jaw ...

the pressure i can handle .. at the moment i'm taking naproxen and that is helping .. except i'm having to hold my mouth slightly open . relaxing my jaw so the upper and lower teeth touch just hurts... but on the up side as long as i don't let them touch it doesn't hurt !

i just got braces for the first time yesterday, i'm 34. i have some teeth missing on the top and he wanted to remove 2 teeth on the bottom to make space for the crowing down there. i asked him if we could try to make space instead and if that fails fall back on removing 2 teeth as i don't want my ja...