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I don't have pictures yet, but I was debanded this morning. Everything went better than I thought. There was almost no pain, just horrible noise from the glue being scraped off my teeth. I wasn't 100% happy due to some flaring of my top front teeth, but I was told that this was the best we could do ...

My daughter at the age of 9 had top braces on. She tripped getting into bed and went mouth first into the drywall. She left impressions in the wall from her four front brackets :shock: . I was terrified that they all came loose. I do believe that the braces saved her teeth, becasue if she had not ha...

I am using the suresmile treatment option. I drive an hour to my ortho since he is the only one in the area that does it. My original estimate was 12-14 months with suresmile and 24-30 without. I think that the 24-30 was a little overestimated. Anyway, I am paying $500 dollars extra and I will proba...

Hi Matt My midline had shifted only about 1 mm, so a couple of months ago, I had the EXACT elastic like the video. I wore 3 more in addition to that but for other reasons. It worked like magic. It only took two weeks to line up again. I know that it was only 1 mm, but it may not be that long for you...

I actually go in today at 3:40 for my appointment. I have made progress, but I know it is not enough. So it will be interesting to see if he will tell me to just keep using the elastics or make some more drastic changes like IPR and change to a steel wire. I'll let you know what happens after my vis...

I feel the same way. I was supposed to be done this month, and I go back next Monday for another evaluation. However, I have a bad feeling that I won't be done. One of my top front teeth need to rotate a little more and move up. I have taken one step forward and three steps back many times I feel li...

I have played the flute since I was 10 years, but the last 15 years or so, I have only played around Christmas time. I guess that life gets in the way including work, kids and so on. Anyway, this past Christmas was my first in braces, so I put on some Christmas music, got inspired to play and took o...

First, I wanted to say that I just got back from 2 1/2 weeks in Sweden. I have to say that braces are not that common over there. I saw a total of TWO people (teenagers). I don't know if they are all born with fairly straight teeth or what. When I grew up there, only the severe cases got braces. Any...

I actually just had mine taken off today, 5 months into my treatment. My top brackets were hitting my bottoms so they had to put them on day one. I do think that they wore down a little as time went on, but I do remember the challenge to eat with them in the beginning. It truly does not take long to...

My appointment today was just for the ortho to look to make sure that I am ready for my Suresmile scan on Thursday. So, it was supposed to be a 10 minute appointment. The tech wanted to change out a couple of wire ties before he looked, and low and behold, a bracket popped off. It is a long story, b...

I have had a loose bracket since 6/1. I called the ortho immediately and was told that he was at a seminar and wouldn't be back until 6/20. I expressed my concern MANY times that it was a long way away, but they told me over and over that he had to be there for a rebonding. I hung up, posted a messa...

Thank you for your replies and encouragement! I feel better about it after reading your comments :D . The bracket is secured by a powerchain so I don't think that it will bother me at all. It is actually funny that it is the one and only bracket that came off when I had my first wire put in. It popp...

I just noticed that I have a loose bracket. It is on the tooth next to my front tooth. I actually wonder if it has been loose for a while and I just didn't notice. The tooth seems to "hang" a little lower than the others so I decided to look at the bracket placement, and that's when I noti...

I am actually getting used to having the elastics, but I can't stand the breaking 5-6 times a day. I have 1/4" heavy as rectangles on each side and 3/16" medium as a rectangle around my four canines. The front keeps snapping (breaking). It startles me EVERY time. Sometimes, I can feel it c...

I had my 3rd wire change today and left with a powerchain and bags of elastics. The powerchain hurt a little when they put on, but that's OK. What I very much dislike (I try not to hate anything in life) are the elastics I left with. First of all I can barely open my mouth, and all that practice to ...