I had my cleaning and spacers put in last week and will be going to get braces on the top and bottom tomorrow morning, but I'm starting to really worry
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I found this forum a couple of weeks ago and have been lurking on and off since then. Seems like a lot of great advice and good people in here, so I thought I'd register and see if you guys couldn't calm my fears a little bit
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What I'm worried about is this: When I first went in to talk to the ortho about braces (about a year ago) he told me that it was kind of 50-50 weather I would need extractions first or not. He left it up to me. He said that if I was still a teenager (I'm 31) that I could definitely get away without having to have them because your jaw is more pliable at that age, but at my age, the jaw might not move enough to make room for all of the teeth and that I may need an extraction or two.
Now I'm worried that 1/2 way into the process he is going to tell me that I need extraction(s) and I am going to be forced into it or risk wasting all of the time/effort/pain of braces for a year+ and not have my teeth look any better
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I don't think I have much of a bite problem. Just a lot of crowding on the bottom up front and a little crowding on top and some teeth on top aren't exactly straight. Overall, my teeth probably aren't too terrible as they are.
I guess I'm locked into this at this point.
Wish me luck guys!!
Oh yeah, a post or two telling me that I probably won't need extractions wouldn't hurt either
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