I am 29 year old female from los angeles. I have overcrowding in upper and lower snd deep overbite. I started my journey of braces on april 21. I chose upper and lower incognito and it cost around 8000usd. I want to write this because i want ppl to have more to read incognito braces. I tried to research for two months and seems like not enough experiences sre posted . I think i went through every archwired messages and youtube videos posted abt them. I chose it because i am very uncomfortable with idea of braces showing. So i will keep this as a journal for my experience. Lets get started!!!
Day 1 getting them on was painnnn in the rear. Brsckets kept falling off and i was so scared along with the person putting them in. It tookthree hours to have my braces! I had extremy anxiety that i made wrong decission. So finally i walked from dr's office and my speech was ok. So i didnt eat anything all day and drank milk at night. My tongue was getting irritated. I had trouble talking. I did not use wax or pain pills throughout whole process. Next day woke up and i couldnt even talk.i went to work and i was in so much pain from tongue rubbing against brackets. I kept my mouth shut. It wss unbearable pain. My tongue was just swollen,red and with sores. I meant next 5 days i had horrible tongue pain, couldnt talk. I work in healthcare and had to talk to patients and i couldnt talk. O man i would say for good 10 days i had trouble with tongue. I never once used wax. I dont like doing extra things for temporary pain relief. I say i started eating normal on day 8 but talking was the only part i was afraid of. I was worried that if tongue will ever get used to metal inside and stop getting sores. So i am prolly over two weeks and i can tell u i am so glad i got them and i love them now. I see movement already i think. Well maybe wishful thinking i dunno. I use waterpik at nite and love it. I can eat abt anything! I went twice to the orthodontist in first week for pokey wire . If u have any questions feel free to ask me.
