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I had my first adjustment this morning...

To speed things along, the orthodontist put a much thicker archwire in my upper arch. Both he and the technician acted like I was going to be in a world of hurt today because of this. Well, it is 8 hours later and I don't feel a bit different.

Has anyone else felt no change after being told to expect the worst? Maybe I haven't given things enough time?

It's not that I want to be in pain, I just want to see things move (I have an ugly gap where my right biscuspid was removed to correct my midline).

It might take a day or two for the pain to kick in.

After my first adjustment, nothing hurt at all. Then with my second, the pain started.

i never had pain fom braces, and they worked quite well

Sometimes the ache doesn't start right away. Usually with my earlier adjustments, it took a couple days for it to start hurting. Now it hurts a bit sooner after the adjustment, but for less time.

I just had an adjustment today and they gave me thicker rubber bands that they said would be super painful and I have yet to feel anything. It happens every once in a while that way for me and then strangely a few days later the pain's so bad my head hurts. The body is amazing in how it works!

I have never had any pain. Every now and then I will have temperature sensitivity, but that seems to come and go. Today I had my first cleaning since braces on, and I have some discomfort from taking arch wire off, getting cleaned, putting arch wire back on...ugh! Lots of tugging on my teeth for a day, but it was only when they were being touched, nothing lasting.

I have had moments a month or so after an adjustment when all of a sudden there are achy spots, but nothing horrible. Your , our, teeth are always moving,so ya never know!