How many brace wearers here are in England?

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#16 Post by **Briggsy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:25 am

I'm in Devon. Braced since mid May. Hopefully only serving 10-12 month sentence.

#17 Post by **descantus** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:13 am

I'm in London. Discounting teenagers I havn't seen many brace wearers around, pretty sure there's quite a lot of invisaligning going on though!

#18 Post by **rolo** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:26 am

East Midlands, lower ceramic and upper linguals...must be some kind of hot spot, I know one other adult with them (ceramic) three that have had them removed in the last year (ceramic one with upper lingual) and someone else at work is getting them - not sure what kind.

#19 Post by **Wobblydeb** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:32 am

The North East, and there are another 2 people (that I know of!) at my work place with braces

Two of us are using Invisalign and going under the radar though.....

#20 Post by **Soph!e** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:26 am

I'm getting them in *hopefully* a few weeks, right after I have my top two first bicuspids pulled out for the overcrowding I have!

I'm a 15 year old teenager, and a fair few people have them in my age group, but it seems that most high school teenagers have them at a younger age - more like 12 or 13!

#21 Post by **Inova** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:11 pm

I'm from Cambs too, nr St Neots.
I had a friend who had invisalign (I'm 33), a girl in her 20s in the pub had them and also an older lady had the full metal works at the rail station. There's quite a few of us!

#22 Post by **Inova** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:12 pm

I'm from Cambs too, nr St Neots.
I had a friend who had invisalign (I'm 33), a girl in her 20s in the pub had them and also an older lady had the full metal works at the rail station. There's quite a few of us!

#23 Post by **chemicalfan** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:01 am

I'm in Portsmouth too!
26yo male, got my fixed braces yesterday!

Going to Athlete @ the Wedge tomorrow night - if they think braces will stop me partying, they have another thing coming!!!

#24 Post by **electrokitty** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:49 am

I live in the East Midlands and also spend quite a bit of time in the North East where I am originally from and I've yet to see a single other adult wearing braces in either location.
Lots of kids and teenagers but nobody over 18.

I do see lots of adults where I think "You could do with getting braces"!
Not that I'm a mean person, but having braces has made me kind of obsessed with checking out everybody's teeth, I can't help it!
Does anyone else find this?

#25 Post by **mwic1985** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:05 pm

I am in Reading.

#26 Post by **Riley** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:16 am

mwic1985 wrote:I am in Reading.

I used to live in Reading

Now I live in Guildford, haven't seen any other bracefaces around my age (22).

#27 Post by **mwic1985** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:49 am

Riley wrote:
mwic1985 wrote:I am in Reading.
I used to live in Reading

Now I live in Guildford, haven't seen any other bracefaces around my age (22).

Cool

I was in Guildford for about 3 minutes last week on the train to Portsmouth :p

I work near Maidenhead and a guy I work with who's 23 has braces.. I do find myself looking to see if others have them, now I do!

#28 Post by **FrockyHorror** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 7:57 am

Not that I'm a mean person, but having braces has made me kind of obsessed with checking out everybody's teeth, I can't help it!
Does anyone else find this?

Ha, yes, all the time ... when I'm talking to people, watching TV, reading magazines, etc!!! It's got to the stage now where my husband (who is, and always has been, brace free) does it as well!!

#29 Post by **TeacherK** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:58 am

[quote="I do see lots of adults where I think "You could do with getting braces"!
Not that I'm a mean person, but having braces has made me kind of obsessed with checking out everybody's teeth, I can't help it!
Does anyone else find this?[/quote]

Yeah I am doing this lots at the moment!!

Im from the West Midlands and I am currently starting my braces journey. Only seen one other adult with fixed braces a parent of one of my pupils.

Teaching in Braces....well its interesting to say the least!

#30 Post by **dentalguy** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:24 am

I'm not in England but Ireland - Northern Ireland - instead. However, we have the NHS here too so I'm in a similar boat if I decide to go down that route.

I will be going across to Southampton, England - next week - if that counts.

[quote=electrokitty]I do see lots of adults where I think "You could do with getting braces"!
Not that I'm a mean person, but having braces has made me kind of obsessed with checking out everybody's teeth, I can't help it!
Does anyone else find this?[/quote]

Yeah, big time. I'm really into teeth and bites at the moment. I'm always trying to observe other peoples teeth now hopefully, er... without staring. I actually find this all very interesting and if nothing else seeing the wide variety of bites out there reasures me that most people have peculiarities with their teeth.

When I got my braces on as a kid I remember a lady that either worked - or was the wife of the orthodontist - had braces too. And these were the full train tracks. But I think adults getting braces will become more common as healthcare reaches further into the areas of our lives that previous generations would have neglected. I just think that the people that post here are just on the cusp of a new trend.