Checking out each other in the Ortho

[KyVic]

I think it is funny at the ortho, that when anyone smiles, its like everyone looks around to see what their braces look like. Haha.

I do it too...to see what their teeth look like and what color of ligs they have. Just out of curiousity. Not in any kind of bad way.

I have only seen 1 or 2 adults with braces at my ortho..., so we really look at each other. haha.

[tsmurfenator]

Yep.
My orthodontist is in Mexico where it seems to be tradition to drag around your extended family for every little errand you run, including the orthodontist clinic, so only about maybe 1 in every 5 of the people in the waiting room actually have braces. Every else is some sort of relative of the metal-mouth in the family.

So for me it is enough work just to figure out which people have braces or not.
My orthodontist uses a very distinctive type of braces which I have never seen anywhere else, but every person who does have braces there, has the exact same type of bracket which I think is very cool (except the small percentage which has ceramic).