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It's the number one question that is always on mind . I'm sure we all dream about our D-Day but I feel like the people who have reached the one or two year mark are a little more eager to get that answer. I, unfortunately, am one of those people. It is especially tough when progress hasn't become noticeable anymore and your teeth are "almost there, but not quite". I was just wondering if anyone else is ridiculously afraid of asking their orthodontist this question. I feel like they get it all the time and I'm just bugging them. I asked it once about a year into treatment but am too scared to ask again. I try to ask different questions at my appointments though like "Am I on track according to my treatment plan?" or "What other orthodontic issues are left to treat?". But I feel like they can see right through my questions and I'm not as ninja-like as I hoped I was .
Anyone else having trouble working up the guts to ask this? And if there are any orthos on the board, am I right in my suspicions? Do y'all absolutely hate that question even though we're dying to ask it ?
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I'm with you.... a year in and I want them gone. I am so over thinking about teeth. I haven't noticed much more movement. I go in next in a couple weeks and I am going to ask. I say just go for it... ask him. www.allbraced.blogspot.com
I never ask that question anymore! I've been seeing my orthodontist in one way or another for seven years, and if there's anything I've learnt in that time it's that I could probably trust him with almost anything except for time-scales. I had braces put on a second time in preparation for jaw-surgery and I was supposed to be having the surgery within a "few months" of that date; it ended up being over a year before he said I was ready to consider surgery and eighteen months before I actually got the surgery. I had several "last wire change"s before surgery and about four "last appointment before you see the surgeon again"s.
. I'm sure we all dream about our D-Day but I feel like the people who have reached the one or two year mark are a little more eager to get that answer. I, unfortunately, am one of those people. It is especially tough when progress hasn't become noticeable anymore and your teeth are "almost there, but not quite". I was just wondering if anyone else is ridiculously afraid of asking their orthodontist this question. I feel like they get it all the time and I'm just bugging them. I asked it once about a year into treatment but am too scared to ask again. I try to ask different questions at my appointments though like "Am I on track according to my treatment plan?" or "What other orthodontic issues are left to treat?". But I feel like they can see right through my questions and I'm not as ninja-like as I hoped I was 
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