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thanks for the birthday cheers everyone! :D found out my 1st adjustment will be on: 22nd November - that's so far away! :p That means it'll be over 2 months since I had them put on. Hope that's not going to slow my treatment time down, but I have a feeling it will. I feel like there's not a lot of p...

Linda21 - Thanks for the advice on just rinsing with water after meals/coffee etc. I was told to brush after every meal, which I was doing and still do after breaky/din/anything chocolate related ;) Now I"ll relax a little, rinse with more water and drink more coffee! I had a mocha on the week...

My 'f's were funny for a while there too - quite whistley because of the braces. So I kept practising sentences with a lot of F's e.g. fifty friends frying frogs forever. :) I've had them for a month now and my speech is fine, no one picks up that I pronounce things any differently. Good luck with y...

That's good to hear sjsarre and Linda . I was told to steer clear of pumpkin soup, coffee etc because they stain. Which means I haven't had a coffee since I got my braces on! Not that I need one everyday, but it's nice to wake up a bit at work sometimes ;) Do you guys brush your teeth straight after...

Hey - sorry for the delayed reply!

My ligs for the cermics are clear. They're holding up pretty good too (one month in) - not too much staining, although I'm avoiding a things like curries (can't stand them!) and pumpkin soup (love it!) so there's less chance staining.

Wow your teeth look fantastic! congratultions! :wink: Did you have staining on your uppers due to the glue etc? I think that's what I have too, I can see areas where the glue has not been scraped/scrathed off by my ortho on the day I got them on and it's making my teeth look yellower :( I'm going to...

Hey charlotte ! I got my braces on almost a month ago now, and I'm also 23 (24 on the 23rd of this month). Like newmetal , my only regret is not having them put on earlier! And also like newmetal I find that people don't react that differently. My boyfriend thinks their cute, and everyone else just ...

Thanks for the reassuring words, Karen - made me feel a lot better about the whole thing! :jump: :D And your progress is amazing! :!: All that movement without pain is hard to believe ;) Haha I just have it in my head that pain = movement. I still haven't had any pain so far which is great. Update: ...

Excellent, I will definitely be claiming this on tax for the next financial year! It's been a while since my last tax, so I thought you could claim dentistry but not orthodontics? Although I probably read or remembered that wrong, so I'll hang onto my receipts for sure...

Stace, your b-day is my sister's birthday and 2 days after my birthday! I've never had spacers put in either, but all reports I've read seem very painful. I think getting my one tooth pulled was painful enough for me! (I was on painkillers for almost a week, probably due to not enough salt water gar...

KK : Gain without pain sounds good to me; which is how it's been going so far. Although it's making me a little suspicious, i feel like i should be experiencing a fair amount of pain? All my friends have asked if it hurts and so far my answer is "no" (apart from the occasional wire diggin...

Your teeth look great Pucca26!! Your progress is really good

I thought it was bad getting 1 tooth out, but 4 wow you must have gone through a lot of pain, JT ! I lived off painkillers the week I got it removed, but that was partly because I also got tonsilitis a couple of days afterwards - which means I couldn't eat or swallow!! I found weetbix (not sure what...

Thanks for the great welcome everyone! linda21 & belmikry - thanks for the advice on my molar hitting the bracket, I've learnt to live with it for now, and I'm only chewing on my right side (still giving the tooth that was extracted on the left a bit more time to heal before I start chewing on i...

oh and also where the bracket is placed on on my back left molar, it feels like its been placed too high. The top tooth hits the bracket and doesn't bite down properly because there's not enough room. To bite closed now, i have to move my jaw slightly off centre (before braces it was quite centered)...