woooooooo!!!.my braces are off finally.I've been waiting for this day so long!

2 years EXACTLY WOOOT WOOT IMA STOP CALLING U NADORK WOOT WOoot

my teeth feel wierd.ive never felt my teeth without somthing on them for 2 years.

now i can punch ur teeth out im soo happy :D:D:D

can you close your mouth fully now that their off?

seriously could u? o.O

I want my braces off. I need them for 2 and a half years at least!

My teeths are same as my fathers braces aren't working

You mean still 2 and a half years?! Or in total?? how long do you already have them now..??

i had to have them for 2 years.

I need them for 2 and a half years (or more) in total. I must have had them for about... 8 months now.

bummer..

got that right lol Not to mention i got some metal wire thing running around the roof of my mouth, which is cutting in so hard that it feels like it's just going to disappear up into my skin soon lol ouch...

That's got to hurt..

You know.. They said I had to take a brace once.. for one damn tooth...! I just said no, and I didn't have to..lol They can't make me do anything lol

I get mine off next month. I can't wait.

I have good teeth...the funny thing is that when i was younger i didnt brush my teeth that often and yet, i never got any cavities...

I get my bad teeth from my dad. My actual teeth are ok, but I get cavities easily, and needed a brace. I get my brace off the week after christmas! YAY! Right now, I have little elastic bands which attach my top teeth to my bottom ones to re-align my jaw of something It's really hard to eat- I can barely open my mouth, and the bands keep snapping, so I have to replace them lol.

my sisters had the same thing but they just always took them off when they ate but i have perfect teeth so i dont need braces

ugh ive never had em but i will soon. adly. i dred getting them tightined

my friend has braces, and i saw her recently, and all i saw at the start were two fluro things hanging out of her mouth!! they turened out to be her bands.......

u musteve been thinking "oh my god what is that???????"

I got my braces off today! yay! Feels really weird lol.

exciting...

yeah, well stop spamming, I know sarcasm and if you don't care, don't post

How long did you need them for, I have never had them but people say I need them.

I think thats great Firetongue!
I have.. pretty good teeth, I might get a... whatcha-ma-call it. LOL
I don't remember the name of it but it's like braces, only u don't wear it 24/7
I bet ur happy, u can eat food again!!!

You mean a retainer? Yeah, I'm getting one on Monday, but at least you can take it out. And now my teeth feel unnaturally smooth because of the painful scrapey polisher thing. Painful, but smooth... lol.

What does a retainer do for your teeth?

Usually after you've had a brace, your teeth like to move back to where they were originally, so you usually have to wear a retainer at nights to stop them moving again during the day.

Anyone ever had braces and tried to play a saxophone? My dentist "highly suggests" braces, but I don't want to give up my last resort music scholarship :/

I know someone who did that, you can get these special strips of wax, which stops your brace interfering with the instrument. Ask the orthodontist, I had some to stop it rubbing at the back when I first got it. In the long term, nice teeth is well worth it, if sometimes painful and annoying during the braces stage lol.

Cool. The other thing I was thinking about was those Invisiline(sp?) things that fit over your teeth. I strongly doubt that I would even notice when I was playing. The setback here is how long it would take to pursuade my mom. Those things are really expensive, or so I hear.

Thank you for telling me what retainers are for.

you didn't know what a retainer is for? oh well! now you do! anyways, my friend had braces, but they got taken off, and now he has this metal band around his teeth. is that a retainer? lol i dont really know what a retainer is!

Yeah, if he can take it out, then it's a retainer. I'm getting a clear plastic retainer instead of a metal band for some reason, it looks like this: http://www.drleslee.com/images/content_ ... salign.jpg
http://www.gotsmiles.net/images/aligner.jpg

which might actually be called the invisalign. I think maybe they are called aligners in America instead of retainers like here- not sure. Anyway, orthodontic care on the NHS is free for children and teenagers, so I get my "invisible" retainer for free.

Osthato Chetowa: If you got a brace, the invisalign probably wouldn't fit over that, and if you didn't have a brace, there would be no point at all in getting an invisalign. They are only really used after your fixed brace. I know you can get special wax/mouth-guards for people who play instruments anyway, which go over the brace so it doesn't interfere

what, you mean you're getting it for some reason,
--OR--
it looks like that for some reason???

http://www.invisalign.com/generalapp/us ... /index.jsp


The clear alternative to braces.


Invisalign uses a series of clear aligners that are custom-molded to fit you. The virtually invisible aligners gradually reposition your teeth into a smile you'll be proud of.


Remove your aligners to eat, brush and floss
Change aligners every two weeks
Your teeth move little by little
Regular progress checks with your dentist or orthodontist
Results often in 6 months to 1 year



Why people prefer Invisalign
The convenience and ease of use of the Invisalign system have made it the choice of over half a million people. In fact, Invisalign has been effective in giving hundreds of thousands of people amazing new smiles.


Most people won't notice you're in treatment
Won't disrupt your lifestyle
Free initial consultation with participating doctors


No metal wires or bands to irritate your mouth, and best of all, most people won't notice you're in treatment. Invisalign®, the clear alternative to braces, has been chosen by over 500,000 people who want amazing smiles.

lol, ok, they must be a lot tighter than they are here then. And they aren't actually invisible, my friend had some- it looked like she was wearing dentures lol, you know that clear plastic you get in packaging? It looks like you've got a piece of that wrapped round your teeth lol- yeah, I have to get them too . Anyway, your teeth can't be that bad if you're planning on getting invisalign instead of traintracks (fixed braces), hope it turns out for the best if you decide to get the treatment/retainer

I just had a tooth extracted, so that my teeths can move more. It is so nice when your dad is a dentist, because he was the one that did it and he anastatise the place even more then normally so it didn't hurt for at least 5 hours

cool I had to have 4 big teeth taken out before I had my braces- on the last one, the anaesthetic didn't even work! That was one of the most painful things in my whole life!

I still have mines on, but I think I know since I had it on the tooth that was removed.

1. Remove elastics
2. Remove wire
3. Remove metal piece from tooth " I didn't even knew that he had removed it, painless"
4. polish tooth to remove glue "lots of dust, don't breath in, it's nasty"


5. I there's something else I don't know

wow, do you guys brush your teeth lol? My teeth arent SUPER straight, but i find it strange that so many people need braces

Yeah!! It makes your teeth feel slimy!! lol, I though I was the only one who got that feeling. I think it's because they polish the glue off, that it make you teeth feel so smooth it's slippery. lol. And I found that having the actual brace pulled off wasn't too bad- it happened really quickly, and like Louis said, if you have those metal rings round your back teeth, you don't feel them being pulled off at all, it's painless. The polishing is the worst bit, you get dust from the glue and enamel all down your throat and over your face lol. That's the only bit that hurts a little. And it did feel weird without them on for a while, but I've got used to it now.

Also Shade, brushing doesn't stop your teeth being wonky lol. Of course we brush! I hope... And it's not that more people need braces than they used to, they've just become more widely available, so more orthodontists can give them to people who need it now.

lol, "wooky"......i guess it's just a gene lol or not...

Well, my teeth were crooked, but they straightened out again.

are braces put on with glue? or are they set into your teeth?

They're stuck on with a really strong kind of glue lol, if they were set into your teeth, there would be big holes there when they got taken off

Ugh... I'm not getting mine until 9th grade at the earliest, and then I'll have them for at least 3 years after that...

I have a HUGE overbite, and my teeth are way out of place, since I had an assist around one tooth and they had to pull it out before it ever came in, and then I had four more teeth pulled because they wouldn't come out to let the other teeth in. So, the other teeth have moved in to fill the gap, and are all crooked. And my top two front teeth overlap a little... lol I have as many problems with my mouth as my dad... stupid genes...

I have to have braces on for OVER three years! I hate it! At least one year is finally over, but now I have rubber bands and I have to wear headgear at night to realign my jaw.

Im in the second faze. I had braces once when i was ten for one year then a retainer for 4 years now i get braces again now that my other teeth have come in. Ive got spacers in right now.

Spacers only hurt before and after they put them in.

yea the spacers don't hurt anymore and the braces will only hurt for a few days so its not that bad

i wouldn't do that. its only at night when i had my retainer i had it on all the time. My friend accidently broke hers and her teeth are going back exacly the way they were before braces.

Ok, maybe I'll force them in every once in a while, but I can assure you I will definitely not be wearing that thing every night for another 60 odd decades!

You only want to live to be 74????? What about 75, 76, etc?

60 decades is 600 years...lol.

614 years old, Firetongue???? I'm sure if you lived that long you would've killed yourself.

Then my question remains... Why don't you want to live past 74?

My great-grandpa is 87 and he does all sorts of stuff you would never expect him to be able to do.

before my great uncle died he still went on motorcycle trips and he was over 80