Anyways, here is my story. I used to have braces back in junior high...i had nasty open bite (due to finger sucking as a kid) and some crooked teeth. My ortho back then was great and gave me a wonderful smile. Over the years my teeth have stayed perfectly straight, but I have begun to have bite problems. To make a long story short I saw a dentist a few years ago who said i had 12 cavities (which I later found out I had NONE!), so he filled them and did a horribly CRAPPY job. I started clenching my teeth at night and having severe headaches. I found a new dentist who is great and removed my old fillings and re-did them all. He gave me an NTI device to wear at night (for the headaches and teeth pain from clenching), but that exacerbated the open bite problem that had relapsed a bit over the years. After I stopped using the NTI in December, the open bite has definitely closed up a bit over time, so that is great.
Anyways, so now I have perfectly straight teeth, but an open bite and some other tiny bite issues with my molars....so that led me to braces!
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Sooooo, tmw I get them put on! I am hoping that since my bite has been closing over the past 4 months on its own that my teeth will move fairly quickly with braces...and that I might get close to that 9 month mark;) Wish me luck!
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Here is a pic of my teeth...I am not biting down all the way here, so the open bite space looks bigger, but it isn't that big;)
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