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i'll be sure and post up my before and afters

Went in today for adjustment, and knew I was getting close...

Scheduled my next appt in 4 weeks - June 10th.... FOR DEBANDING!!!!

And I'm getting the permanent retainer!

I'm so freakin excited

(and with 2 1/2 months till my wedding so YAY for good pictures)!

i got my bottom braces on 2 weeks ago, and they added these little globs of white cement or something on my back upper teeth.. they look like fangs back there.. keep me from biting down all the way

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cool... i guess i'll keep looking.. i've made two great adult female friends (not hookups or anything.. just friends)... just based on sharing the commonality of braces :) also gives me someone i can vent to during times of adjustment who understand recently (not as someone who had braces 10 years a...

Just noticing (especially since i'm older than normal brace-age... 28) that when i go out to the bars or anywhere else, there is an unspoken bond between older people who have braces where they'll flash their full metal jacket at each other with a nice friendly smile... i've actually been approached...

Wow...You have had alot done in a short time! Today is 4 weeks since being braced uppers and lowers, and I was told that gum grafting was in my future! How did that go? Did they do the flap surgery or the grafting from the roof of your mouth .....I was told you can't open your mouth for a week?.......

It's good to hear that you are looking at this in a positive light :) How do the powerchains feel like? i purposely waited to answer this.... at first it felt like a regular tightening... this morning it feels like a tightening x 2 ... just a little more pain than normal... nothing ican't handle bu...

Got my braces on Nov 15, 2005.. just the top ones.. "full metal jacket" hehehe.. also since then had an extraction, and a gum graft... Today they powerchained the top.. and said in four weeks i get the bottoms on... i know it's only been 4 months.. but hey, i feel like another step closer ...

good idea.. i'll take pics later!

Okay, so they had to pull a tooth in order to pull my teeth back for my overbite... not one of the front two, but count 1, 2, third one not counting one of the front two... only did it on one side too.... well of course i have a gap the size of a freaking tooth!!! now first i feel my mouth is going ...

here's "pearl"

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Congrats on taking the plunge. I like the metal braces with white ligs... that's an awesome idea! Does it reduce the visibility of your braces at all? Any staining yet? the gorgeous girl that did all the work picked out the coloring for me.. said it was called "pearl"... i can't say it re...

So here I am.. 28 years old, and getting braces... It was not a "necessity" but I was far from content with my smile... so i took the dive and got em... full metal jacket too... i guess that's all for now.. just stumbled on this board when looking up some info... got mine put on a week ago...