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my oral surgeon charges 350 for IV sedation. 325 per wisdom tooth. 150 for non surgical extractions and 250 for surgical extractions.

hey everyone I posted this a few weeks ago but deceided to update this with a few pictures. My name is Laticha and I am new to the board. I live in the dirrty south, Arkansas and will be braced on Jan 23, I will get spacers on Jan 16. I am soooo excited I have wanted braces all my life to fix my cro...

Thanks katy and Joanne I am not really scared about having the extractions... well I guess I am a little bit. But just because I had a molar pulled when I was 14 and it developed a dry socket that had to be packed several times and required me to take a lot of tylenol 3 and advil for a couple of mon...

If your treatment plan required, during what part of your treatment did you get the teeth pulled? I know some people get the teeth pulled before they get braced and others afterward. If you did get teeth pulled afterward how much later after the braces were put on was it? Also which teeth were pulle...

I think i understand now, thanks for responding meryaten and nikkiekoala.

hey missing_tooth The good news is he said he would put bands on my molars as to not get crowns until treatment is complete. Whew... Although he said he would talk to my dentist. No point in getting crowns if your bite is going to change I am just wondering why he said to wait to get crowns until af...

hey ebjones 1 I too, am harrasing my ortho and his assistants forutnatley they have email so that makes it easier to ask a bunch of questions. I emailed my orho's office over a weekend and got a response monday afternoon with all my qestions answered and the assurance that they understood why I had ...

congratulations
I am a little confused were you going for a regualar consult and ended up getting braced or was that your appointment to get braced? Anyway I am glad to hear you are proud. Life is so much better when you look forward to things like this instead of dreading them.

Hey Nimo I definitley agree with Karen. You want to make sure you get as much info as possbile and not just go with the first ortho you meet. My first consult was with an ortho similar to yours he did not spend but a few minutes with me and did not give me any specifics as to my deficts. Like he was...

hey thanks meryaten
That makes since now as why nothing would come up under porcelain on google search.

hey karen thanks for the words of encouragement but I am already psyched about getting braces. I made a boo boo when I was trying to respond to granola and ended up putting everything in quotes but thanks.

AustinWired wrote:My ortho almost always said 'porcelain.'

hey thanks for responding I was starting to get worried. what kind are yours? Do you know who makes them? My ortho uses Rocky Mountain Porcelain braces and I did a google and a yahoo search for it and could not find anything?

hey this is probably a dumb question but is there a difference between porcelain and ceramic braces. Everyone on this site speaks of ceramic braces but my ortho offered me porcelain braces on my upper teeth. Is there a difference? Does anyone have porcelain braces? or had their ortho call their brac...

Granola said: see now--when you mentioned expanders (the kind that widen the jaw) in your first post, I thought you would have to have bands, but it sounds like you were referring to spacers. Hey you are right. I am getting spacers not expanders I got confused. Sorry! Keep us posted about what happe...

Poppet97 wrote: Hiya, I get my braces the day after you . . .I wish I had your positive attitude am totally dreading it! I expect to have braces (top & bottom) for about 24 months and then retainers for another year after that.[/quote] Hey I know it is new and we do not know what it will be like...