I am new to the site and will be getting braces soon. I am 29 years old.
I currently have spacers between my upper molars. On Tuesday, the Ortho is putting rings around my molars and putting something across the roof of my mouth to push outwards on my teeth. On the 22 of this month they are extracting 5 teeth (ouch), one wisdom tooth and 4 permanent. The doc says I have too many teeth in my mouth and my teeth have grown crocked and my jaw also developed wrong. The left side of my jaw locks closed sometimes (not very cool... and it's painful) So after the braces are on for about 1 to 1-1/2 years, they want to do surgery to bring my lower jaw forward and center it.
Sooo,
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I am hoping this website will help me cope and help with any questions I may have along the way.
Thanks-