Movement?

[vegathestar]

5 months! seems so long! were your teeth in good condition/straight when braces were put on?

Trust me, my teeth were close to perfect before I got braces put on. I only had braces to correct very very mild overjet and a small gap, perhaps thats the reason why I didn't see changes until 5 months later. Or maybe my orthodontist was just too gentle and conservative with the wire. But once I got power chain, whoa.

5 months! seems so long! were your teeth in good condition/straight when braces were put on?

Hopefully vega isn't answering because he/she is out getting flossers.

Yeah baby, except its 10pm here right now. Shall get the floss tomorrow instead

[Glandyover]

Yeah baby, except its 10pm here right now. Shall get the floss tomorrow instead

O NOES! I'm such an idiot assuming people are in the US. If you can't find flossers made for braces it's because they haven't propogated to your part of the world yet. I may have gotten your hopes up for naught. If so, my sincerest apologies.

[oimysizex]

My teeth are 'near to perfect' too so i probably wont see any changes!

aw its only 15.52 here...

[vegathestar]

Yeah baby, except its 10pm here right now. Shall get the floss tomorrow instead

O NOES! I'm such an idiot assuming people are in the US. If you can't find flossers made for braces it's because they haven't propogated to your part of the world yet. I may have gotten your hopes up for naught. If so, my sincerest apologies.

Don't worry! Whoa you don't have to get so worried, i'm not an uptight asian! I wished i'm staying in US, all the good buys are there. Here in asia we have nothing but stupid stuffs made in China. But thank god for eBay, though most of the time i've to pay a lot extra for shipping to Asia

My teeth are 'near to perfect' too so i probably wont see any changes!

aw its only 15.52 here...

Nah don't be worried, at first I thought my braces treatment would probably take forever because I see ABSOLUTELY no changes for the first 5-6 months, but when I got powerchain on, wow. I saw changes literally in 2 hours.

Do you not love afternoons in the UK?
I love night time, the climate in my country is too warm for my liking. Gets like 32 degrees celsius in the morning and afternoon.

[oimysizex]

The weather here is rubbish at the moment! rainy then sunny then boiling hot then freezing haha!

I ate curry, well curry sauce and low and behold, i now have green braces... my ligs aren't being changed for another 8 weeks hahaha

ive gotten away with curry not staining before....

[Glandyover]

Yeah, it's 34c here in Texas. We might have easy access to all the good buys but we pay for it by getting baked by the sun all the time and dried out by drought.

I'm not seeing any movement but I'm actually most worried about getting out of braces too soon. I mostly got them because I think they're fascinating and I'm only in for a year. It's just been a little more than a week but I'm already worried about having to get 'em off. I think I'll disappear to Sri Lanka or something when it gets near to my date...

[oimysizex]

Just keep cancelling and rescheduling your appointments, makes treatment time longer haha!

[Glandyover]

Just keep cancelling and rescheduling your appointments, makes treatment time longer haha!

My ortho would see right through that. She knows I'm enjoying them and thinks I'm nuts.

[vegathestar]

The weather here is rubbish at the moment! rainy then sunny then boiling hot then freezing haha!

I ate curry, well curry sauce and low and behold, i now have green braces... my ligs aren't being changed for another 8 weeks hahaha

ive gotten away with curry not staining before....

Aw i've never gotten away without stain with curry before. I LOVE curry and not being able to eat curry bothers me i think i'll rather get ugly colored ligs than the clear ones even though the colored ligs look really BAD on me.
Boiling hot? How many degrees over there?

Yeah, it's 34c here in Texas. We might have easy access to all the good buys but we pay for it by getting baked by the sun all the time and dried out by drought.

I'm not seeing any movement but I'm actually most worried about getting out of braces too soon. I mostly got them because I think they're fascinating and I'm only in for a year. It's just been a little more than a week but I'm already worried about having to get 'em off. I think I'll disappear to Sri Lanka or something when it gets near to my date...

34c?! Omg its 32 degrees celcius here and i'm already dying of heat. But its very humid here though.
You find braces FASCINATING? How old are you?
I was 19 when I got braces, at first I really like it but now I really hate the look of braces I wanna get it off as soon as possible SO MUCH!!

[Glandyover]

34c?! Omg its 32 degrees celcius here and i'm already dying of heat. But its very humid here though.
You find braces FASCINATING? How old are you?
I was 19 when I got braces, at first I really like it but now I really hate the look of braces I wanna get it off as soon as possible SO MUCH!!

I'm 37. I had braces once before already when I was 26-27. I always thought orthodontics was amazing since I saw my first retainer and palatal expander when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I tried to convince my mom I needed braces but she didn't buy it. Most people's ideal smile is a big white grin but mine is a shiny metal one. I totally can't explain why but that's just how I was built, I guess.

[Ness817]

Start of day three with "metal mouth" and so far so good. Talking is embarrassing, as I got a RPE on top and a Schwartz on lower. I have seem movement of my my front four, kinda of cool. My teeth were kind of straight, over crowding and a very narrow arch.
Was not expecting to see any changes during the first few weeks. Glad I have. Everyone has been asking me why I have braces, they see my teeth as straight. I bite my tongue while talking, not enough space for tongue. My lower teeth are crowded worse then top, so they have to make room to rotate the teeth into better position.

Take pictures of your teeth every couple of days, you will notice the small changes.

[BraceFace2o1o]

Any ideas of where I can get them from? i live in the uk... so.. aha

Unfortunately so much isn't available to buy in the UK like in the US . I have been wanting to try so many funky orthodontic products only to find I can't buy them in shops here or from UK websites. You can always buy stuff from eBay from a US seller depending on the P+P, sometimes it's too expensive and not worth it.

Try using floss threaders with regular floss, makes flossing so much easier and they are available to buy in the UK

[oimysizex]

my teeth keep getting tender from day to day and the other days not hurting at all.. does that mean their moving..

[oimysizex]

So, I am going to show you a picture of the 1st day of braces and a picture of my teeth i have just took haha, wonder if any of you can see any difference?

<< 1st day of braces

and now...

any difference? haha

[gemini4]

Plackers. Get 'em. They fit under your wire and it takes 5-10 minutes TOPS to floss and that's if you're just messing around with your braces because it's fun. If you can't find them, try spam spam spam.

What is "spam spam spam" masking ???