No pain yet...

[Leesa]

Got braced yesterday to fix overbite, overjet and crowding on the bottom!
Its been 24 hours and no pain at all... Is this normal..? I expected it to be extremly sore? Should just count myself lucky??

[ladyksilver]

I can only hope my fortune is as good and I'm too can consider myself outside the norm also! Good luck on your treatment!

Kendra

[Leesa]

Thanks :)

How do i make one of this ticker things??

[clangjr]

Glad to hear you're doing well too. I also got started yesterday. I too am not experiencing any pain...yet.

[Leesa]

Lucky us!

What sort of treatment are you getting clangjr?

[clangjr]

Well, I've got:
severe crowding on the top and bottom
crossbite
protrusion
misalignment of the centerline
apparently I have a small lower jaw bone and am at risk for having teeth "fall off" the back side of the jaw as well

I chose all metal braces and don't regret it at all. I need to get three teeth pulled a week from today to create room. I wasn't too thrilled about having to have teeth pulled, but the ortho group I go to are supposedly the best around. I trust them. It just stinks to get three more pulled as I just had three wisdom teeth removed seven weeks ago. Had I known I would have just done them all at once.

This will all be worth it in the end. It sure beats having to have surgery as well.

[nifer237]

Ugh, you are so lucky. I just got my top ones on (ceramic) and rubber bands have been in place for about a day and I am in so much pain. I couldn't sleep last night. I always thought I had a high tolerance for pain, but I'm starting to rethink that. I took the rubber bands off for an hour this morning and it was immediate relief. But I had to put them back on.

Here's hoping you stay pain-free!

[kittykel29]

I hardly had any pain either when I got my braces on. I've had two adjustments so far and they haven't been too bad. The last adjustment only hurt that evening and by morning I felt better. I would assume as treatment progresses, and the wires get heavier, it may start to hurt more.

[ladyksilver]

@Leesa go to the Ticker website and construct a ticker. Copy the code and paste the code in your user profile in the user control panel.

[bedazzlemouth]

Glad to see this pain post. I posted the exact same post about a week into being braced and many reponders said things like "oh, just wait, your time will come". I just want to say that I am now almost 11 months into this full metal and still no pain. For most of my treatment I have had adjustments every 5-6 weeks. I consider my case pretty severe. This is good news for you...perhaps you will have a similar experience. I am scheduled for TADS soon and I expect that things will probably change when I get elastics in a couple weeks but I feel lucky so far. Congratulations on getting braced

[ellem]

This is great to read for me too! I'm getting a full set upper/lower on Friday, feeling nervous... some ppl experience so much pain, & this worried me... not so much the "pain" part of it but I teach, and always need to present my best face in front of the class... it seems everyone is different in this aspect. Getting the rubber spacers was a torment, headache for three or four days straight-- now have full set of molar bands & I can tell it's irritating me, but just not enough to require aspirin...

hoping that my braces don't knock me for a loop,,, very happy yours is going well & hope they stay that way!

[jambo532]

Wow that's great! I had soreness the first day I was braced then all out freaking pain for the following couple days. Now I get random soreness sometimes... It's nothing as bad as the first day though. I'm sure it's normal that you don't feel pain though. I think everyones mouth is just different.
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[BracedGeek]

I haven't had any real pain since I had the brackets put on. The spacers were another story!

I hope it stays this way.

[MalteseFalcon]

I just got braced about 6 hours ago, and so far no pain, although I do feel the onset of some pressure on my top teeth. I hope there will be no nasty pain surprises when I wake up tomorrow