Apologies for the non-positive post, people, but I am beyond disappointed with my teeth, they are a real mess. If I take a photo with my phone camera, it won't show the problem clearly, the quality is not good.
It's a long ortho story - synopsis - I had a lower incisor extraction, the incisor had moved forward and the teeth were closing in behind it. It shouldn't have been removed. Ortho was a perio who "dabbles" in ortho - didn't realise until it was too late what a huge mistake it was.
Found another ortho who I thought would be able to carry out "damage limitation". Fast forward 2.5 years, upper brace has been removed.
The upper front four teeth flare out. I have 6+mm overjet. I look like goofy.
Earlier this year I had a (very expensive) second opinion on the state of my teeth - the opinion was that the lower incisor shouldn't have been removed (tell me something I don't know) and nothing could be done about the large overjet (6mm) and circumference discrepancy between the upper and lower arch (the lower being too small).
In about a month the lower brace will come off and the full horror of my overjet will be revealed.
Net result = increased flared upper arch, much decreased lower arch. Lower teeth are way too far back.
I can't tell you how upset I am as I was never told by my ortho that my upper teeth would flare. She had said that she couldn't take them in as it would make my face "fall in", however I had confidence that at least the uppers would look okay - but no.
You know how people's teeth look when they have dentures and the top teeth don't match the lowers and they look odd and mismatched - well, that's me.
I so wish I had never started all this.


I guess I'm posting this as a warning to people out there to carefully consider extractions.