I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice or suggestions about how to handle it all (or can point me to a post that does). How long do the extractions take? How did you eat? What can I expect after the extractions are done? How much pain? How long until the holes healed?
I'm especially concerned because I'm having enough difficulty eating with just the braces, but I'm afraid of what will happen with huge gaps between my teeth, gaps that I expect will take at least six months to fill in. I guess Boost will be my best friend for the next little while.
)I'm also feeling a little uneasy about the fact that they're they're removing the first premolar on the upper left hand side, a tooth which shows when I smile. I hate the idea that i'm going to have a huge gap for months, when I smile.
I've taken solace in the fact that thus far my teeth seem to have moved quite rapidly. They already look a million times better than they did when I first got the braces in June and I'm hoping that means the gaps will fill in quickly.
On that note, for people who have had their braces removed already, how many of you had them off during the prescribed amount of time? How many early and how many were delayed? I'm really curious about this, because I hear a lot of stories about people who should have only had braces for two years and instead had them for five.
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