1 and a half month in braces, with picture

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#1 Post by **haywire** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:26 pm

hi everywun. i'm 20 year old and i got braces about 1 and a half month ago

i noticed some progress so i made these pics. what do you think?
i will get my lower braces in about 4 months. i dont have bad teeth on my lower arch, but i have a deep bite that has to be corrected.

#2 Post by **haywire** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:27 pm

the first picture is from my first day in braces

#3 Post by **Shutter** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:29 pm

Congratulations - major movement in a short period of time.

#4 Post by **Ladybird** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 2:50 pm

Your teeth look really nice

Good luck with the rest of your treatment

#5 Post by **haywire** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:25 pm

thank you

i forgot to mention. my teeth didnt hurt at all since i got them

i didnt have extractions. but in a few monts i have to exctract two wisdom teeth and i've heard it hurts like hell

#6 Post by **xJx** » Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:13 am

Thats some amazing progress in such a short amount of time!

#7 Post by **petitcanard** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:46 pm

Great progress, haywire! It looks like we have similar issues to correct and I'll be starting my journey soon, so it's encouraging to see your teeth moving so fast! Thanks so much for posting pics!

Re wisdom teeth, I had 3 out at once a number of years ago, and while sitting there for a couple of hours enduring the process wasn't much fun, it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. The biggest issue I had was trying to keep the extraction holes clean until they healed over, but the pain was less than I expected. Good luck and fingers crossed!!

#8 Post by **Rachel B** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:29 pm

Wow, great progress

#9 Post by **Grover** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:45 pm

Awesome progress!

#10 Post by **haywire** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:09 am

Second adjustment today, almost 2 months in braces
not a big progress since the last time i posted, but now i have elastics on my brackets ( first time i had something else as you can see in the first pics )

thanks for support !

#11 Post by **haywire** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:38 pm

The first pic was taken 4 days after i got them, almost 2 months ago.
the second pic was taken today
my orthodontic was also happy about the progress

#12 Post by **RocknRollFun** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:47 pm

oh, hey I responded to your other thread so I hopped on over to look at this one. I have to say, I think your deep bite was caused by the same thing mine was... my front teeth were "retro-inclined" and thus pushed back my lower jaw too much!

At least you didn't get TMJ disorder as a result... ugh.

#13 Post by **haywire** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:07 pm

what is TMJ ?

#14 Post by **RocknRollFun** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:58 pm

You can google it, but to put it simply, it's a messed up jaw joint. My bottom jaw went to the wrong spot when I chewed and stuff because my teeth weren't aligned correctly. Years of that pushed out the cartilage from one of my jaw joints and it locked up on me, prompting me to get treatment... which eventually included braces.

#15 Post by **Lingualita** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 2:14 pm

Just wanted to drop by to say that the changes you've had in such a short time are truly amazing. This is going fast

! Good luck on the journey, and keep us updated!