+1, Where is the "like" button? I'd press it two times.
DRG
Braces: 1986-1988
Open bite was not resolved
Braces again (at age 35): 15 APRIL 2010
Lefort I & IVRO: 21 FEB 2011
Unwired! 25 MAR 2011
Braces removed revealing my perfect bite: 4 JAN 2012
Unbraced teeth felt very strange at first -- sort of slimy! But I'm getting used to it and the retainers aren't so bad. I'm supposed to wear them at least 16 hours out of 24 which is quite manageable. There's a fixed retainer behind the bottom few front teeth as well.
I think once things have settled down the ortho plans to do a bit more tweaking, so this game isn't quite over yet. But I'm certainly enjoying my sense of freedom after more than 3 years of various appliances in my mouth
SARPE: Sept 2007 Braced: May 2008 BSSO: Nov 2010 Debraced: March 2011
Thanks, bullfighter. Yes, flossing is a dream. I still have to thread under the permanent retainer but that's nowhere near as fiddly as working round brackets and especially trying to get between molar bands (of which I had 8!!).
SARPE: Sept 2007 Braced: May 2008 BSSO: Nov 2010 Debraced: March 2011