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The problem is that it is easy to become complacent about things like sauces!!! Burger sauce has mustard in it - it stained the glue and the ligs round my brackets a lovely light yellow. It looked slightly better once the ligs were changed but I had to live with yellow looking teeth for 3 weeks unti...

Yes!!! I have got this problem! It feels like me whole mouth is really dry - like it is full of cotton wool. I think it is because the braces irritate the inside of your mouth and it just causes dryness. I didn't have this problem until last week (I'm 5 months in) - but I have ceramics on my front u...

I'm totally with you ReaJT!! I'm 5 months in and apart from the fact that I have had virtually no ulcers (but this is my second time at braces, having had them as a teenager - so maybe that has helped) my surprises in addition to those you have mentioned are: -the changing of the archwire involves s...