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Longer term, they did for me in the positive way I had hoped. I had a bit of a snarly smile because one of my teeth on top was really crooked in way in so my lip kinda followed it and didn't sit right. Now that the tooth is out straight, so is that part of my lip. Shorter term during treatment, I've found that the rubber bands change the loop of my top lip but the braces don't at all.
I've only been braced for a week but my profile / lips doesn't seem like it's changed at all.
First Consultation: July 16th, 2013 Second Consultation: August 21st, 2013 Extractions (Wisdom + baby tooth): August 22nd, 2013 Brace Date: September 4th, 2013 First Adjustment: October 18th, 2013.
My overjet is going to be correctly partly by pulling back my upper teeth a little (mostly by widening the arch), but I hope that isn't enough to cause a difference.
I hope mine does, sure makes me more now. My lips kinda hide my teeth. I always had small teeth anyway. Don't know if that's strange or not. Kids try to hide them, I try and show them. Guess I'm going kookie at 50.
more now. My lips kinda hide my teeth. I always had small teeth anyway. Don't know if that's strange or not. Kids try to hide them, I try and show them. Guess I'm going kookie at 50.