As I'm sure many of you can empathize, I've always needed braces - but family could never afford them while I was younger. I'm just on the cusp of being able to afford them myself, and now I'm almost consumed with doing as much research as I can. I always brushed them off when dentists said 'you need braces', because I knew it wasn't going to happen - so I pretended like I didn't want them. A self defence thing, I suppose. Then I got married this year and some of my wedding pictures made me sad and really embarrassed (and actually sad and embarrassed again to write that out! Ugh); couldn't take my smile in 'HD', well my teeth - I have a nice smile, just not so nice teeth.
I'm going to a regular dentist in a week or so for a cleaning, then after that I'll start looking into orthos in my area. I'd like to save up a bunch of $ before I get braced, enough to pay half up front so I have lower monthly payments. With that in mind, I'm probably looking into May 2014.
Once I'm able, I'll include some pre-braces teeth pictures here. It seems like my bite lines up okay - everything lines up to and including the canines, but my incisors flare out forward, one slightly more than the other/kind of overlaps, one lateral incisor is a bit back/behind the incisor that flares forward, other one seems okay-ish, maybe flares a bit...er....if any of that makes sense!
Anyway! Looking forward to reading everyones stories and getting some good information and support.
this site is great for support and information 