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I was debraced around April 2019... and almost immediately after had extreme sensitivity in one part of my mouth.. its continually gotten worse and started causing extreme toothaches... Now dentist says I need a root canal in that tooth (Upper right, second molar) - 1300$ :roll: I'm wondering if any...

I was debraced around April 2019... and almost immediately after had extreme sensitivity in one part of my mouth.. its continually gotten worse and started causing extreme toothaches... Now dentist says I need a root canal in that tooth (Upper right, second molar) - 1300$ :roll: I'm wondering if any...

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I have a clear plastic retainer on my top teeth and I can’t bite down and if I do bite down it feels like I might break the retainer, is this normal? I just got my retainer and it feels the same - only my back two molars connect .. I don't often sit with my bite completely closed anyways so its not...

Im free - after 757 days!!!!! Yahhhhh!

IM FREE!!!!!!!!!! :-* thumbnail_IMG_3849.jpg Debrace date was two days ago - It was not exactly fun.. but not super painful either... The removal of the ceramic was a lot worse than the metal... and my jaw was being tempermental but I got through it in about an hour.. :) Happy to be done - Teeth are...

I remember talking to you in the beginning!! Your teeth look amazing!! Congrats

I think if I was to do braces again I'd choose all metal - ceramic are slightly less noticeable but make my teeth look more discolored than they actually are! Which makes me very self conscious. - Once I had braces for about a month it did not bother me at all that I actually HAD braces.. but the lo...

I am 8 months out now. I some how managed to get this far with the braces but now the tmj is flared up bad again. I just had my second square wire change on the top and the bottom had a chain and spring but was taken off and now trying to turn my last crooked tooth. My bite is still off and I have ...

I'm with you with the elastics. I'm supposed to be wearing the box config. elastics for this go around. However; in the past, the unintended result has been to make the bottom molars tip in. Keeping this in mind; I'm trying to take 1 to 2 hour breaks every few hours. This is not my first go around ...

Thanks for the response.. I had my adjustment yesterday and we are going to keep trying on that stubborn tooth - she thinks some of it is related to shape of tooth.. I'm not entirely convinced. My bite is off - for sure, I don't think that's going to be fixed. My deep bite has been corrected but my ...

Hi There- I'm not sure if you are biting down correctly for the picture but your bite appears off. I'm not an orthodontist but I think you need to go into class II elastics to pull back the upper and pull forward lower. Teeth # 6 and 7 top right look off-set slightly in first close up image of your...

In pic 5, it appears that you have a larger than normal overjet (if this is your normal bite). Was this something your ortho discussed? In pic 6, the outer edge of your top right central incisor doesn't look level with the adjacent lateral. I'm only mentioning these issues becaused you asked for op...

I need someone to tell me.. what I should tell my Ortho about how to make my upper right tooth more aligned. She seems to think its fine and booked me for retainer impressions on Feb 6 - But... im a perfectionist and something seems off.. we've been fiddling with this one tooth for a while now and i...

Had an adjustment on January 7 - Im still not happy with my one tooth and the front tops... something doesn't seem right but the ortho says she thinks it looks good. She power chained to close a small gap on top right and we rebooked for Feb 6 so long as everything looks good and IM happy we will do...