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I also had this kind of thing for a week or so when I first got my braces on - it felt reallllly painful to brush on certain teeth, and there was actually one which when I touched it with a toothbrush it made me want to be physically sick for some bizarre reason... I also had pain chewing on one too...

@dubzoo I know, big pain, but thanks! Re: ceramics, they basically said that in a LOT of cases it makes very little difference whether you have ceramic/metal, but that when there’s a lot of movement to be done (like in my case) ceramic is much less effective as there’s more of a friction (that’s not...

I’m feeling a bit fed up and guess I’m just looking for a bit of support here! So I’ve got bad upper and lower crowding and an incisor in my palate that needs to be dragged outwards. I had my upper brackets fitted in March - ceramics - and should have 4 premolars removed sooner or later to make spac...

Just to update you all... The tooth that was hurting just... stopped hurting... from one day to the next. So that's great! About the premolar extractions - my dentist doesn't seem to love my ortho or his methods, so the dentist has asked a colleague of his (another ortho) to jump in on my case inste...

Thanks everyone. The other dentist reassured me that all was OK, although I ended up not getting extractions yet as my dentist has now decided to get my wisdom teeth out first... yay? Anyway, re: premolar extractions, I'm aware that it's not ideal, but my case is, in the words of literally every den...

A little update for you all, with an unexpected twist to keep you entertained. So I went to the other dentist yesterday to get that tooth checked out. He didn't do any x-rays but tapped around and had a look at how the braces were on and told me he's pretty confident that the tooth is fine and this ...

Oh I see.. I don't have bite blocks or anything so it's definitely not that :( I've just booked an appointment with another dentist the day before I'm supposed to get my first extraction hoping that he can take a good look and reassure me that everything's ok. I definitely do need extractions - I ha...

Hi all! I've had braces on for 7 weeks now, without much progress as my ortho wanted to take it slow (I'm kind of a nervous patient) and in any case no serious movement can take place until I get some extractions done - I have severe overcrowding. There's this one tooth which has been giving me grie...

Thanks everyone :) Bracefacemom47 - How long did your weird feeling like this take to go away? I'm now at week 7 and it's still there, the pressure when I bite down on this one tooth. It's not like other teeth that comes and goes, it's always like that... I went to the ortho yesterday and he (frustr...

Eek ok, first post, here goes! I got my braces (fixed ceramic uppers - lowers going on at a later date) about a month ago. I’m quite nervous with dentists/orthodontists so my ortho is deliberately going slowly. He put on my brackets, with a super thin wire, without yet attaching my more troublesome ...