Braces are Off!!

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#16 Post by **beachbum** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:14 pm

Your teeth look fabulous. Congrats!

#17 Post by **treetornkee2** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:51 am

Congrats man. Those are great results.

#18 Post by **KLC** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:31 pm

Wowzers!!

GREAT progress! Pics like that keep me going! Thanks for sharing!

Just curious... I know you said the ortho didn't want to but were you given the option to have permanent retainers? I personally almost think I prefer them, no way to take them out, but their also behind your teeth, right?

Congrats on a fabulous smile!!

#19 Post by **acd** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:36 pm

Thanks everyone.

KLC,
He didn't exactly give me the option of permanent retainers; it was more like 'Plan B' if the lower teeth move with the removable retainer. The bottom one hasn't been a problem and actually after four days I've gotten used to the upper one and can talk almost normally now. I didn't want clear invisiline type retainers because I didn't want to take it out every time I drink something other than water. In the past two and a half years I went from drinking 10+ Pepsi's per day and switched to diluted Country Time lemonade. It still has sugar but considerably less than soda and I've become much more rigorous in my teeth cleaning routine.

I need to schedule a cleaning appointment with my regular dentist soon and want to ask about taking care of the chip on my upper left lateral and the lower left lateral.

#20 Post by **kirjax** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:13 pm

Full time for a year??

ouch!!

okay I wasn't given a time frame but everyone I talk t said 3 months full time then a must at night.

btw the talking gets better. The more u talk the better u sound

#21 Post by **acd** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:01 pm

Thanks kirjax. The past couple of days I've sounded much better most of the time. There are still some times when I sound like I've had three glasses of wine. Of course last night when I was at a function with my wife and had three glasses of wine the effect was compounded and people must have thought I had a lot more than three.