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They feel great, look great but I look sooooo weird!!! I am used to braced me!!
I worried about my retainers for nothing....they bonded a wire the thinness of dental floss to my back teeth. That's it! I talk fine and can't even feel it unless I deliberately run my tongue over it. I pick up my Essex tomorrow for the top teeth but I have to wear them at night only.
I'm so Happy for you !!!!! Wow I can't wait to get mine off .
I'm considering nursing school to become an R. N in the fall !!!
Good luck with your new career.
Pinkdiamond
BTW, what's flossing going to be like with that bottom retainer?
I ask because one of my bottom molars in particular is a real tartar factory, and I wouldn't mind having an idea of what to expect if I end up with the same kind of retainer.
Cheers!
Braced March 2005 (lower); November 2005 (upper); all ceramic. Goal = correcting overbite.
Lower jaw surgery was successfully performed December 18, 2006.
Spacers: 1/26/05; 2/6/06; 3/15/06; 4/24/06
4 First Bicuspids removed: 2/2005
Metal Braces, top and bottom: 3/1/05; Debanded 7/26/07
Hawley retainers top and bottom
Thanks for all the well wishes and congratulations!!!
As for flossing, I just have to feed my floss thru my front teeth (with superfloss of course) and it's really easy.
I got my upper Esex the other day and LOVE it!!!!! It is so thin I don't even have a lisp. I have to wear it from "after dinner" til I wake up but I love it so much and love my straight teeth that I pop it in when I get home