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Thank you! Absolutely, this forum has been amazing for reassurance when I've been feeling down - knowing there are others going through the same thing really helps!!aspiromusings wrote:Congratulations on taking the plunge! you can definitely see some movement esp. on the sides =)
I too had my upper premolars extracted and really a few months into the treatment only regret not doing this whole brace business a little earlier - that said I still got a little emotional reading your blog because almost everything you said resonated with my journey particularly the bit where you said you looked into the mirror and got a little sad
Still, it is reassuring to know we are not alone
Hang in there, we will both end up with beautiful smiles!
I woke up with major soreness in my upper teeth today so I am hoping that means things are really happening up there 
Have you noticed you still get pain in certain teeth randomly? I feel like I should have stopped getting pain by now but I keep getting soreness in different teeth almost on a daily basis!! 
Yes I get random pain on random teeth all the time, its normal I think as different parts move at different speeds to adjust to the wireonwardsandupwards wrote:
We will have beautiful smiles! As I said before yours is looking great already
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Thank you Neil, I hope so too! Good luck with the final stages of your journey - your teeth are looking really great! Fingers crossed for a new year braces removal!NeilH wrote:That's really good progress with nicely rounded arches and I can see the extraction gaps closing already. Hope the soreness goes away soon.
newbite thank you so much for the lovely encouraging words - I spent ages scouring the forum when I first joined for people with similar teeth and yours seemed to be the only other! It really doesn't seem to be very common at all!newbite wrote:Your teeth look wonderful! I don't know how I missed your story, we had very similar front teeth (and that rotation seems to be rare!). Your teeth have moved so fast!! I wonder if having the extractions helped with that?
My front teeth refused to rotate out until about six months in when I first got a rectangular wire. They basically laughed at the puny round wires. And, boy, did they hurt when they moved!! I totally feel your pain.
It looks like your front teeth aren't worn down very much in the middle. Lucky! Mine were very worn down (like triangles) and the ortho could only shave off so much or else they would have been too short. I'm getting them bonded in two weeks. Woohoo then I actually will have *normal* front teeth!
You are going to have a great result. I've had my braces off about two weeks now and I can barely remember what my teeth used to look like. Thank god. I think that particular rotation of the front teeth is one of the worst because it instantly makes the smile smaller and I, for one, perpetually had a shadow between my front teeth as if I had a giant gap and tiny front teeth.
Best of luck with the rest of your treatment!
Gets me all excited for my own debracing (only another year or more, woo....! 
) Thanks so much for the reassurance Neil, I really hope I adjust to them as well as you did! I am weirdly looking forward to the challenge, I know I will be diligent even if they are a pain at first (in every sense) but I know it will be worth it in the end. I feel really lucky to actually be able to get braces and experience it all, good and bad, so I'm 100% with you on fully embracing them!NeilH wrote:Hi, it looks like you are making great progress and I really like the detailed side by side photos, I wish I had done that! Don't worry about the elastics to close any gaps or to fix any overbite or overjet, I had power chains and class 2 elastics and they were absolutely no issue at all. I know everyone reacts differently but I can honestly say the powerchains did not hurt at all and the class 2 elastics only took 5 minutes to get used to and produced great results really quickly. The more you wear your elastics the quicker the results so you might as well embrace them as part of the rich orthodontic experience.
