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In all those closed mouth pictures ... my mouth is closed all the way. The two triangles together, he refered to as a box. Says they will close my bite.... so when I close my mouth all I'll see is teeth, no holes/gaps. I still don't really understand how they work LOL I get that they "close you...

I just had my 5th adjusment, and got elastics. Not the best pictures, but you'll get the idea :) I'm supposed to wear the elastics 12 hours a day, he suggested 8pm-8am I'm going to try and wear them during the day to though, so they will work faster. And it feels funny when I take them out, kinda li...

I just had my 4th visit.

I've gotten new wires on top and bottom each visit so far..... a different number wire, not just changeing them.

I really like buying lip butter from here... http://www.dreamseeds.org/healthymindsandbodies.html#anchor_17 Also like the soap :) .... If you go back to the home page you can see other stuff. Everything is natural, and homemade! My favorites right now are.... blue chamomile lavender natural (no EO a...

Thanks

I switched over to the other place and it worked

I can't figure out how to get the pictures to show up here lol I'll try again after I get some sleep :) I'm going to make meatloaf tonight for dinner. If I can eat it, I'll make a bunch of small loafs and freeze them lol Thanks you all the ideas on what to eat :D Guess I'll have to go to the grocery...

or yesterday (8/17) lol depending on how long it takles me to type :D :tingrin: Went smoothly my appt was at 8am and I was leaveing at 10am. No pain or problems while I was there. But .... Now my teeth won't touch :shock: One tooth can't move down because of a molar band .... so it won't let me clos...

I go Aug 3 for records and Aug 17th to get braced

Seems like I've been waiting forever (3months).

Ditto on the parents, not wanting to talk to people, and noticeing everyone elses "perfect" teeth. (I'm 27) I've been doing online programs for the last few months to earn some of the money for my dental care and braces treatment. I get braces in Aug ... that long till I could get the appt...

Hope you have a fast healing time. My problem with stitchs is them rubbing against my tongue once in awhile. Would feel like a hair was in my mouth ewww and I'd stick my tongue on the hole/stitches.... Potato soup can be your friend lol Mix different things in each time, healthy and easy to eat. I l...

Today I recived the letter telling me about my braces .... cost, payment plan, ect.

It says that after 60 days, it costs $20 to replace a braket.

Is this normal? Will I be spending alot of money in brackets? Or should they stay on well?

Input?

Well ..... They are supposed to be mailing me all the info, detailed treatment plan, everything included in the cost, payment plan details, everything it sounds like. Says I should get in a couple of days, I'm guessing the first of the week since it was already Thursday. If I have any questions or w...

Well I started about 6 months ago, saw several dentists and orthos. Decided to go with this one because he can do everything... dentist/ortho/ take my impacted wisdom teeth out. Others only did one or the other and wanted me to see a oral surgeon for the wisdom teeth. This guy is local to, so really...

Yesterday (18th) I had my final dental work done. Feel like mouth is going to explode (sorry). It was hard to get the impacted wisdom tooth out, it was sitting sideways in my jaw. Don't get me wrong, there was no pain, or head jerking while he was getting it out, it just took longer than a normal ex...

I had an impacted wisdom tooth "dug out" LOL today at about 3pm. I left the first piece of gaze in for 30 minutes. It started bleeding again so I put another in for 1 hour (fell asleep). Haven't noticed any more bleeding.... I did get three stitches so they might be helping. I'm just know ...