Help me... braces. please read! REPLY!! PLEASE!! anyone with experience in braces! help! answer!?
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ok i got my braces the summer before 8th grade. my bf thought they were so cool she begged her mom to take her to the dentist and they put braces on her less than 2 months later! braces are cool. their just another way of expressing yourself with different color bands and patterns. plus it won't be forever. they will be taken off eventually. a lot of people your age have them so i can't imagine being made fun of. i was never made fun of by anyone in the 2 years i had to wear them. if you don't want to answer people's questions, just tell the your teeth hurt and it hurts to talk. PS take some advil before going to the dentist also take chapstick with you. good luck...brace face, tinsel teeth, etc! :) :) :)
Depends on the orthodontist, but usually you get to pick your color, they put spacers in your mouth (they pull your lips back just so the doctor can get at your teeth) and you can't even feel it. Be prepared for when your orthodontist has to tug those molar bands on, that can sometimes hurt. But it's no sweat! The worst part is the soreness, that lasts for two days or so... but don't worry about it, nothing hurts when they're putting them on and most of the time they give you some cute little kits with floss and toothbrushes and things in them.
And don't worry about looking weird or whatever at school, TONS of people have braces! Every single one of my friends has (or had) braces. Well except a few. Whatever.
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Ok well first of all calm down! :) Getting braces is not bad at all. Trust me, I had braces on for about a year and half. The orthodontits put the metal brackets on and you can chose the color elastic you want. ( there are many colors you can chose from) Ohh and i am shy too, and i understand why you dont like anwsering all these questions. My advice with that, is dont worry because no one will ask too many questions. :) Probably just the usual "did it hurt?" along those lines. Braces do take a while to start fixing your teeth, and you are right they wont be fixed in two days, but its ok, b/c they wont look bad. There still your teeth with metal on them. It just takes some time to adjust. I dont think people with make fun of you. That is so kindergarden ish lol... Just dont worry about what people think, and you might be suprised, you may actually like your braces, you never know! Good luck to you, and please try to relax, so you DONT have a melt down. And good luck to you starting middle school, its a lot of fun! :)
DONT STRESS! this is defintaly not something to be worried about... I had braces for 5 years and i was worried too... but once i got to the doctors office everything ran very smoothly... first of all they will talk you through everything! They know that you are probably a little nervous and dont know what to expect so they will defintaly clue you in on everything.
Most likely they will let you choose which color BANDS you want. Bands are the rubber things that will be placed around your brackets... and the brackets are the metal pieces that will be glued to each individual tooth.
I think you will find once you get in there everything will be fine! You arent doing this alone...your doctor and his assistance will be there to help you through every step of the way!
ok, braces aren't bad at all!
people will defenently not make fun of you, and if they do
dont worry about it because soon they will be perfectly straight
in the orthoodontist office, they'll just put some stuff in your mouth, to make it were you don't slobber, then they glue em on and put wire in. some places have rubber bands you can choose the colors you want, and some places just have metal with no bands, but the worst part about it it the tase, but the let you rinse
you might be sore the next day, but its not too bad if you just take some advil or tylenol or something
um, you might get an ulser but just gargel with that salt water, but you might not, it just depends. i've had braces for a long time, and you just need to brush really carefully between them, its kinda hard to floss, but if you can, you should.
also, just be carefull what you eat, sometimes apples, especially carmel apples can pull the bands off, or the wire
but don't stress, i got mine in 4th grade, and its no big deal, just relax, and if you wanna know anything ask your orthodontist about it, and he/she'll help you! no worrys! you'll be fine!
i got my band today and it really painful. I can give you advise tough. Right after you get your braces, take a pain killer. It won't hurt right after you get out of the debtist but it will later. it will hurt a lot!!!!!
well be calm it will be okay, as far as the type of braces u may want to ask parents as they have already chosen braces probaly because they have a price to pay. as far as kids teasing i don't think they will because if u have bad teeth and they see braces they will be like at least she is getting them fixed. eveyone gets braces nowadays and it is normal. people with braces are now cool because they know they will have a better smile when they are done. I have them now and i got them after high school. I was teased in school about my teeth and was shy because of them. i remained shy in college but now that i have braces even though I still have gaps I know people look at me and say well she will have prett teeth and I have way more confidence. watch and see maybe not the first days but it will come once ur teeth start to line up u feel so much better when ur bite is right feels like u have perfect teeth even though u dont have perfect teeth yet. relax it will not hurt to get them on and ur mouth will hurt when u are at school those days so u may want to take u some yogurt for lunch or something. hope this helps
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