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that's just awesome. we're all very excited for you and i'm encouraged by your progress.

welcome from one soon to be newbie to another!

all i can say is amazing. your progress is so encouraging. i'm going to get braced, gulp!, tomorrow afternoon - new york city time.

congrats motts!

Thanks guys for your positive energy. I'll put up progress pics after the holidays.

Thanks Latestarter. I'm nervous and excited at the same time. I'm going to have my upper and lower bicuspids extracted as well. Not looking forward to that. No pain no gain, right?

Yup, I’m finally joining the club here at AW. After several months of consultations, teeth cleanings, root planning and scaling, cavity removals and wisdom teeth extractions, my B-day is right around the corner. Like many members here, I have always needed braces since I was a kid, but because of ...

great, great progress!

just to let you know whenever i need to write anything of length, i write it first locally on a document program (ie ms word). then i can edit, save, etc. before posting/submitting. that way i won't fear about timing out on web servers which happens more often than i'd like.

i had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled this month while i was awake under nitrous and local. i wanted to do this before getting braced and afterwards felt very little discomfort. it went SO MUCH better than i imagined. from what i've heard and read on this site, pulling a non-wisdom tooth such as a b...

after i finish brushing, i open my mouth towards the shower head like the dolphins in sea world during feeding time so that i can get a mouth full of water to rinse.

i have a mirror in the shower.

i do this in the morning. just seems natural to me. at first, my wife thought i was weird but then she started to do it too. lol.

i went to see my dentist recently for some minor work. btw, the first ortho works here also. their office does just about everything, has convenient hours and a few blocks from my home. my dentist and the ortho explained to me that labial braces would work the best for my situation and i would recei...

thank you everyone for your input. very helpful. also, i had another consultation with a different ortho. he said i WAS a candidate for linguals (he has plenty of xp's with linguals) and was surprised at what the other ortho said. this doc was very cool and gave me straight forward answers. i may go...

hmmm... molar build-ups. makes sense. thanks for that piece of info. i'll bring that up with the next ortho. this forum rocks!