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My ortho has told me that at my next adjustment (next month), I should be ready for rubber bands. At that point, I will have been in braces for 9 1/2 months. I've been told that rubber bands typically come in the latter stages of treatment. I was just wondering, for those of you who got rubber bands...

Wow mm92280 Your teeth look great. I'm curious, did you have any extractions? I ask as my teeth are crowded and the orthodontist thinks that I won't need extractions. I had 4 teeth removed prior to being braced but that was purely because my wisdom teeth were coming in. My ortho told me he didn't t...

Its been quite awhile since I have visited the board, so I decided it was time to do an update. It has now been almost 6 months since my braces went on. I just had my 2nd adjustment a couple of weeks ago. Just like the first adjustment, they put in a new wire and my teeth were pretty sore for the fi...

I went for my 2nd adjustment today and my ortho told me that he thought I would be ready for rubber bands to be added soon, possibly at my next visit. I'm currently at the 5 month mark in my treatment and am wearing Damon 2's. My next visit will be at the 7 1/2 month mark. I was just wondering if th...

Okay, I am 2 months into my treatment and there has been some progress, so I decided to do a little update, including pictures. For the first 3 or 4 days, I will say that I was very uncomfortable with my braces and I had a lot of second thoughts about it. However, after about the 1 week mark, I star...

I have an appointment to get them glued back on tomorrow. I was hoping they might be able to sneak me in sometime today, but that didn't happen.

I was just curious how many of you have had brackets come unglued on you? I am just under 2 weeks into my treatment and I have 2 brackets that have come unglued and are just able to slide along the wire right now.

I have Damon 2's on and the cost for me is a little over $4300 for 18 months of treatment.

They are back to their normal way-too-big size. I will repost them in a smaller size later on today.

They have resized on me. I changed the size because originally they were huge, but its taken several hours for it to take effect and its made them way too small.

is anyone else having trouble seeing the pictures?

I've known for a long time that I needed braces, but I avoided getting them because I thought it would be the worst year and a half to two years of my life if I did. Well, I recently revisited the possibility of doing it. After looking into it and seeing how things had improved, I finally got seriou...

here's a thread dealing with how to post pictures, maybe it willl be some help:

viewtopic.php?t=5137

I'm glad you asked this one. I am getting Damon 3's on Thursday and was going to ask how quickly the Damon 3 users had seen results.

You are going to look completely different when your treatment is finished. You can already see major movement just in that short span of time.