Braces and Marriage

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#16 Post by **metalmander** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:57 pm

ignore this..

#17 Post by **ellebee** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:45 pm

Hello -- I'm engaged and I'm holding off on setting the date until I know my braces will be off. I'm enjoying being engaged, we just bought a house, for us there is no big rush to marry. Of course it is the second time for each of us and we already have our kids.

Other than being ready to start a family, why not wait to get married until your orthodonture is complete? Or if you really can't wait, have a simple ceremony now and the big party later.

I have a little different dilemna. My daughter is getting married on Oct. 20 and I was supposed to be finished with braces by then, but it's not looking promising. I really don't like my options. I am concerned about the damage to my teeth by having the brackets removed and replaced, although I am considering having the top 6 front teeth temporarily debraced. I'm especially worried about my two top front porcelain veneers. So I may just depend on having the photos retouched.

I guess we'll see how it goes. I have an appointment Monday. My ortho may reposition a bracket on one of my stupid rotated lower laterals. Maybe we'll see some real progress after that. The elastics certainly have my midline lining up, too bad the torque of the elastics caused the rotation to revert. I'm wearing double elastics on that side, single on the other.

And so it goes.

#18 Post by **cosmicgirl** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:07 am

Hello Airbraceface!
Congratulations on forthcoming wedding - and also your decision to get wired up! I'm sure you'll feel conscious of your braces at first, but after a week you'll (almost) forget they're there. Get ceramic brackets, white wire and bands and they'll disappear! By the time your big day arrives I'm sure you'll be accomplished at smiling discreetly with your top lip just covering the upper brace. Your teeth will have probably straightened out by then so there will be a lovely, neat set of pearls! And if you don't want to bare your gnashers, then smile seductively a la Helena Christensen. On the plus side, the braces tend to push your lips out - I have a fabulous pout now without resorting to collagen implants!
Good luck with it all - the work will be over and done with soon enough - the sooner you start the sooner you'll have that winning smile.

#19 Post by **Silliry** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:19 am

I say go for it! I went for my ortho consult 12 months before my wedding (which will be next June) and had my braces put on with 11 months to go until the wedding. I figured that my wedding is the ONLY time in my life where I'll have hundreds of photos of me and my future husband, so there is no better time to get them on! I haven't yet decided if I will have them taken off before the wedding and then put back on...I probably will, but I'm also okay with my braces and how my smile will look (I'll only be about 2 months away from done with treatment at that point!)

#20 Post by **jumbie** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:53 pm

When I got my braces on my b/f was suprised cause he did not know I was serious about getting them. He is still very supportive but the issue with getting married did come up. Although we are planning to get married, we are not quite financially ready to do so . I told him the braces just bought us two more years to get things together cause there is no way in hell I am getting my wedding pics taken with anything in my mouth. At the same time I think getting married was part of the motivation for getting them fixed in the first place as I also had bad visions of my overjet from in pictures taken from the side. Not cute.

#21 Post by **Airbraceface** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:56 pm

I haven't decided what to do yet. When I told my boyfriend it would be two years till they are off he seamed bothered by that. Its weird because he normally jokes about the marriage issue. We shall see!