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#1 Post by **married2abuckeye** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:46 pm

Hey! Just wanted to introduce myself to all of you and say THANK YOU for this site!! I just got spacers today and will be getting my braces in 11 days. I'm very excited but also nervous. I'm 33 years old and have basically have lots of problems with my bite that should have been fixed long ago. Funny story - they couldn't fit the spacers in for most of my teeth (molars are really close together?

), so I just have 2. Lucky, I guess, but a testament to how much I need all this!

Sooo glad I finally made the decision and really really happy to find this site to help me through this. Looking forward to the next 2 years with all of you

Kirsten

#2 Post by **cwatt1** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:59 pm

Hi Kirsten, and welcome! I'm sure you'll be very pleased with your decision. I'll look forward to following your progress -- my braces are being installed on 7/12, so we'll be entering into this uncharted territory at about the same time!

Here's to smooth sailing for you!

#3 Post by **SDFD TSchott** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:31 pm

Thanks for joing such an awesome group, thanks for introducing yourself and hope that there will be much movement for your process through braces. Congrats on getting started.

~Tim~

#4 Post by **married2abuckeye** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:26 pm

Thanks everyone for the nice welcome! Good luck with your bracing, cwatt

My spacers are aching now, and I can't imagine eating or anything if I'd ended up with them between all of my molars! I'm kind of nervous about next Monday (braces day!) but I really appreciate all of your stories and experiences. All in all I'm pretty excited about the whole thing...

Thanks again!!

#5 Post by **hawkerswife** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:46 pm

Hi! Welcome. I'm pretty new to the board as well. I got my braces put on today!!

#6 Post by **Kerridwen** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:23 am

Hi Kirsten,

my real name is Kerstin btw.

Hmm, braces really aren't that bad, but healthy teeth are even better. Hope we're both gonna get them eventually.

#7 Post by **LilRedPitViper** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:27 pm

Welcome, and Congrats... to all of you new to the board, and to braces.

Here's to everything going great for all of us!

#8 Post by **married2abuckeye** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:16 pm

So...4.5 days now till I get my braces on!! (it'll be Monday 7/16/07) I'm looking forward to it, and these days seem to be going by so slowly...hope the time I'm in braces goes by faster

In the meantime I'm trying to learn all the ins and outs of posting pictures and stuff on here!

Thanks again for all your welcoming words. I'm glad to see I'm starting this journey to a better me (or at least a better smile) with some new friends. Guess we can compare our progress, right?

Kirsten

#9 Post by **cwatt1** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:38 am

Hi Kirsten,

So tomorrow is your BIG DAY! Mine was last Thursday, so I know well the excitement and mixed feelings you must be going through right now with less than 1 day to go!

Here's to a positive experience for you! Be sure and let us know how everything goes

#10 Post by **Cinnamon** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:13 am

Woohoo Kirsten!!

Almost braced!! Be sure to get some good before pics before tomorrow! Good luck and let us know how it went!

Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:59 pm

Thanks Cinnamon and cwatt! I am going crazy with anticipation right now!!

My appointment is at 8:15am tomorrow, and I took the day off work, so I'll have the entire rest of the day to adjust.

I just finished taking a bunch of photos of my teeth in their "before" condition - on the advice of many of you here, as well as my sister. She had braces several years ago and regrets not having any good pics for comparison of the before/during/after. I guess I can post some of my pics in my own "braces story" tomorrow!!!

Yay!

Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:37 am

Well, I'm official now! Got my braces on a few hours ago. So far so good - just the pressure. But I did manage to forget to take ibuprophen prior to my appointment!!

I started my own thread on the "braces stories" board. Here's the link:
viewtopic.php?t=20257

Thanks for all your well-wishes!!

OH!! and my DentaKit came today, too

Yay!!

#13 Post by **SouthernCharm** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:46 pm

Congratulations on your braces! If your experience is anything like mine, you won't start feeling it until a day later. Although, my teeth had started to ache a bit by the end of b-day. I took that as a positive sign that my teeth were moving.

My orthodontist told me to chew a half stick of sugarless gum to help with the pain from movement, but I really don't like gum. On my ortho's website, I noticed a banner ad for a place to buy supplies: wax, pain relief gel, etc. One of the products they had was something called a bite wafer. I purchased three of those, and they've helped tremendously. They are also flavored if you're into that: cherry, grape, and bubblegum.

It's been a week now, and the pain is pretty much gone from my back teeth. My front teeth are still sensitive, but those are the ones that will have to move the most.

Oh! Wax has definitely been my best friend. Right out of the gate the hooks on my back brackets were causing me grief. I stupidly tried to tough it out the first day and wound up with a canker sore. Now, I'm liberal with the wax.

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