10 Things You Learn While Wearing Braces...**^^**

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turrrtlelove22
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10 Things You Learn While Wearing Braces...**^^**

#1 Post by turrrtlelove22 »

Just a little bored. I actually have a lot to do and don't want to do it...it will done tho...just not today...LOL...

So here goes 10 things I have learned, not in any particular order... :wink:

1. Drooling will be more common...while sleeping, brushing and eating...

2. People will do a double-take and stare in your mouth, but not ask
questions.

3. Sometimes that whole chew your food all the way thing just don't apply

4. You find more interest in Dental Hygiene section and find yourself lingering there a little longer than before.

5. You savor the day when you can bite into a sandwich again.

6. Eating can be taxing...but if your hungry enough you will find a way to tackle food.

7. For once pain is a good thing

8. Mirrors are your best friends.

9. You notice other ppls teeth more.

10. You can sometimes be less fond of eating in public...


For a boredom-buster...make your own top 10!!!...**^^**
LiFe iS A HoOt iF You arE aN oWL...O.o

Sept. 28 ~ Consult with Orthodontist
Dec. 5 ~ Spacers In
Dec. 12 ~ Braces On!!!






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#2 Post by SimInsomniac »

1. You notice how good or bad other people's teeth are more. I always look at people's teeth now, without realising it most of the time.

2. Braces don't give you perfect teeth, just make the most of what you have.

3. I learnt how to floss and the value of cleaning thoroughly twice a day.

4. Gaps take far too long to close.

5. Caramel/other sticky things are bad.

6. You look for any movement in every mirror that you pass.

7. You learn the proper names for teeth.

8. Interdental brushes are a godsend.

9. They make me smile much more without me noticing or necessarily meaning to. :lol:

10. All the different sorts of bite that existed. I was only really aware of underbite because one of my friends is having it corrected. :roll:

I began to run out of good points after the first few.
Damon 3 braces for 22.5 months.
30th August 2005 - 13th July 2007

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#3 Post by Tin Indian »

:D 1) Can't bite fingernails anymore
:D :( 2) Can't whistle anymore ( which I used to love to do! )
Braces on 9/01/2006- Braces off 4/14/08
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#4 Post by turrrtlelove22 »

Oh I sooo forgot about that biting your nails thing...I felt slightly traumatized knowing I wouldn't be able to... :shock:
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#5 Post by Delag »

Top 10 uses for your waterpic
1. rinsing the sink
2. cleaning grout
3. watering the Christmas tree
4. cleaning jewelery
5. power washing tires on your car
6. getting the corners clean on the kitchen floor
7. washing the filter thingy on your hair dryer (of course after you have taken it out)
8. watering hanging plant baskets
9. oh, cleaning braces
10. best ever squirt gun
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#6 Post by lionfish »

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#7 Post by Emerald »

Keep them coming! :tingrin: :thumbsup:

I can't think of any others that haven't already been mentioned... :roll:
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I had self-ligating braces for 4 years & 8 months.

I'm now in Hawley retainers for top jaw (during day) and Essix retainers for bottom jaw (at night).

I had Jaw surgery on 14th July 2008

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#8 Post by Tin Indian »

:( Does anybody here not whistle anymore besides me , I REALLY miss that. And not that I was any good at it anyway, people said it was akin to a real sic bird. Maybe braces will help, maybe not, but I do miss it. :(
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#9 Post by turrrtlelove22 »

OMG...LOL...so frakin' HI-larious!!!...You guys and gals are so funny!!! MORE MORE!!!... :lol: :lol: :lol:


Delag, I squirt my cats with mine!!!...LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#10 Post by Tin Indian »

:? And maybe, just maybe ,I'll be able to blow a nice big bubble gum bubble too!I was always better at swallowing the gum anyways!And maybe learn to sing , on second thought- hmmmm , maybe NOT!
Braces on 9/01/2006- Braces off 4/14/08
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#11 Post by turrrtlelove22 »

~ Everyone seems to have teeth ... yet I never saw them before ...


KK...LOL... :lol: :lol: :lol: :-* :-*:-*
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#12 Post by Delag »

Here is another one - I never noticed that I use my teeth to help open up those little hair elastics. Of course I can't do it anymore and I now find those little suckers all over my house. Can't whistle anymore either.
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#13 Post by chrisk »

10 Things I've Learnt Since Wearing Braces

1. You have to like yourself in order to change yourself.

2. Anticipation and wariness of something is usually worse than the actual event.

3. I don't need to hide my mouth behind my hand when I smile. (I stopped doing that the day I got braces.)

4. You have to have a really good Education Assistant who doesn't mind singing Sausages are sizzling S S S, and Ox on a box X X X to your pre-primary class, since your are incapable of enunciating S's and X's properly with braces.

5. You spit a lot when speaking with braces on so the front row of your pre-primary class need to sit further back.

6. I can go without chocolate, lollies and fizzy drinks for the last 2 1/2 years.

7. Jaw surgery really isn't so bad.

8. I can breathe and kiss easier (no teeth in the way)

9. With less than two months to go in braces, that this is not over yet. (root canal to be completed, possible crowns on two molars, and gum grafts to go)

10. This has been so worth it. I should have done it years ago.
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#14 Post by ellebee »

10 things I have learned from having braces:

1. Comfort is more important than appearance.

2. Progress is more important than pain.

3. Lip balm is your best friend and comes in a zillion kinds.

4. Warm salt water rinses really do feel great and help alleviate soreness.

5. You can learn to eat just about anything.

6. You don't automatically lose 10 lbs. (see No. 5).

7. Most people are tactful, but a few think your teeth are their business.

8. It's harder than you'd think to take a good photo of your bite.

9. Ceramic braces aren't truly invisible, so why not try colored ligatures?

10. Archwired and Metal Mouth Forum are absolutely terrific for support and encouragement!
Spacers, Nov. 1; Braced Nov. 8, 2006; Braces off March 26, 2008, just short of 17 months. Glad it's over but the jury is still out on whether the game was worth the candle.
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#15 Post by Spidey »

10 reasons to be thankful that I have braces in the year 2006!!!!

10. Molar bands on EVERY tooth?

9. T.G.F.N.A.S.A (thank god for NASA)

8. spams take GREAT pictures
(That I can develop at home. Don't want Skippy at the photomat looking at shots of my crooked teeth...)

7. WaterPik, WaterPik, WaterPik!

6. I could not have done this as a teen...

5. Woman Orthadontist

4. We do NOT get "tightened", we get "adjusted".

3. The advances in technology to home blender devices... (Mmm~ Gerber Diets)

2. The ability to say "If Tom can do it, I can do it".

1. Google, The Internet and ARCHWIRED.

There is my list... Wink
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