Just to introduce again, I am 22 and I have a 3 year old son. (He's almost potty trained!
) I have been wanting braces for a long time and finally have the means to get them. (Wow, and I noticed that I first joined this board in Dec. '06!...thats a looonnggg time) Financial things, family and other crazy stuff kept happening and my appt. and b-day kept getting pushed back further and further. I was really upset at first and I almost gave up getting them because of this. When I was about 11 my first bicuspid on the top right was taken out to make room for my eye tooth to move down. My parents didn't really have any money to take me to the ortho, and my teeth slowly drifted towards the space. (I don't blame them or anything, but I'm just happy to be getting if fixed.)
My midline is off by 7mm, and to even things out I got my 2 first bicuspids extracted (1from top left, 1 from bottom right ) and my second bicuspid extracted from bottom left. I have moderate crowding with Class I left and Class 3 right (slight crossbite) So I look pretty crazy right now and will post pictures when I get my braces on, so everyone else will know exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm so excited to be FINALLY getting this done, after all the work (fillings, extractions) Estimated treatment time is 24 months.
This week seems like it is going so slow!
Lana
She sat me up and told me to go rinse really fast with lots of water-which by the way was REALLY freaky! 
I was thinking something was wrong..so it was kinda scary. I got back and 
I didn't realize it until afterwards and I'll be sure to ask questions next time and won't be so shy about it.
I’m not going to be shy either at my first adjustment. In fact, I made of list of questions to ask – if I don’t find the answers on AW first. 
Though, the bottom is going a little better. Really not a huge amount of progress, though the ortho said by the time i go in next time it will be a huge difference. (6 weeks from now) A couple of days ago i finally got all my teeth braced. There were two on the bottom front that had been left out. I had to have springs to space out the front, but I feel i'm finally going to make some progress now that all my teeth are braced. I FINALLY decided to stop being so scared and post some pics. I'm really embarrassed, but I would really like to keep track of how i'm doing. Every time I took pics before I would erase them, and now I don't have anything to compare with. 
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