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Hiya Minadee! I’m with you! I got my spacers put in today, and one has already popped out so I’ve got to go back tomorrow to have a new one put in, and I get my braces on the 22nd. I’m nervous but also so excited to fix the problems I’ve had with my teeth for six years. I think whatever disc...

CHAPTER: THE THIRD // Dis-Banding Hi again all! Sorry that I haven’t updated in a while but things have been hectic in life and I’ve been waiting impatiently for my ortho appointment. Things are finally beginning! This morning I went in to have bands placed between my upper molars to make space...

Hello again Karen =) I’ve decided that when I get the spacers in I’m just going to ask him then if two weeks was right. Unfortunately my ortho’s wife is having a baby and has time off, and I’m not sure when it starts. At the moment I haven’t seen any other orthos. The treatment I’m havin...

Well! Sorry that the pics aren’t up yet, it’s been a busy, hectic, and very emotional week and I keep forgetting. And I’m put off by the knowledge that the slow computer will take years to transfer the files and load photoshop so I can crop them. If not tonight then definitely tomorrow! Sorry ...

Chapter: The Second; Lengthy Delays So, I had my orthodontist appointment this morning. I got there at 10:20 and was called into the inner waiting room promptly at 10:30. I thought wow, this is fast! And then the minutes passed. Fifteen. Thirty. Forty-Five. It was almost exactly an hour after my ap...

Hi again!!

I'll reply to this in my new blog so that things will all be in one place. Hope that's ok!

That would make sense. It's a teaching hospital for orthodontic students, so I suppose they have to experiment with all kinds of things. I'm glad, because I've heard spacers and molar bands are quite uncomfortable. EDIT: I'll reply to your response in the other forum here, so everything is in one pl...

Hi again Karen!

I shall definitely make sure to do that before I go in =) I have dry lips at the best of times during winter so the lip balm is definitely sound advice!

Can't wait, I wish I could just fast forward and have them on already.

Hi again you guys =) Thanks for the replies Karen and mstikl I do get what you're saying. I'm not really a pessimist at heart, I think I would rather just expect a lot of pain and be pleasantly surprised, than think it's going to be a breeze and then find myself in agony. In all honesty, I think I'l...

OR: The Only Thing My Dad Ever Gave Me For real. This, children, is what we like to call a placeholder. I'll be uploading tooth-photos from my digital camera tomorrow, as the PC is uber-slow today, and so is the lovely AOL interweb we have here at good ol' granny's house. I'm so excited I think I ju...

Thank you both for your posts =) I'm proud of me for doing it too, if I do say so. haha. For me, it's a major step. Growing up, I think I went to the dentist like, once, to have a temporary filling put in a baby tooth [which fell out after eating Jellybeans at Easter and then the tooth kind of just ...

I'm by no means an expert on braces and the like [I don't get mine until next Tuesday], but it sounds like what I'm having done is similar if not the same to what you're having fixed. Both of my upper canines came in higher than they should be and I'm getting braces to pull them down into position. ...

Hi everyone! My name is Victoria, I'm 21 years old, from Canada living in the jolly ol' UK, and in ten days I will be joining the brace-face crowd. I'm both excited and nervous... I want to have it done [like, yay for perfect teeth!] but at the same time, not looking forward to the 12-24 months with...