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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:44 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:06 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:47 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:08 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:11 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:28 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:40 pm
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Kals is questing again!
I have had braces TWICE. The first time was with headgear. The second time was with those rubber bands that go from the top teeth to the bottom and are anchored in the back, and they extracted four "pre-molars" to "relieve crowding". I only had one year between getting the first set off and getting the second set put on, so I basically wore my retainer for the entire year. I had a "permanent" retainer on the bottom, but I busted it by eating halloween candy that had been denied to me for the two years prior due to having braces. After I had my braces removed, people kept on asking me if I had gotten my hair cut.
My second set of retainers I wore constantly for probably the first year after having the braces off. After that I was supposed to wear them at night, but I got lazy. Also the bottom one kind of cut into my mouth under my tongue. If I went for a while without them, they wouldn't fit right, but if I wore them religiously for a while after that, they would shift my teeth back into place again. Then one night I went to force my upper retainer into my mouth and surprise surprise, the plastic plate snapped in half right up the centre.
We had moved to a different province by then, and went to a different orthodontist. Well she was horrified when she heard the tale of my teeth. Turns out that they yanked out four perfectly healthy teeth for nothing, and that in order to correct my bite properly, I actually need some serious break-your-jaw-and-wire-your-mouth-shut-for-six-weeks surgery AND THEN two years of braces (again. joy). The alternative is to wear retainers for the rest of my life or to lose all my teeth before I'm fourty due to wearing out the enamel the wrong way. Incidentally, the necessary surgery is considered "cosmetic" and therefore is not covered under any dental plan. I can't afford it, and I also can't afford dentures, so basically I'm screwed.
To top it all off, having my teeth shifting around so drastically and frequently caused one of my two front teeth to die. That's right, it is dead. The nerve receded out of it and it filled itself in with calcium, effectively performing a natural root canal.
Jimsheep had braces for a couple of years too, but smashed out one of his two front teeth (he actually smashed it out twice, they couldn't save it the second time) so he had to wear a retainer with a false tooth on it for WAY too many years -- until his wisdom teeth appeared and were removed, and until he could afford to have an alternative false tooth installed -- if he stopped wearing the retainer, the gap from that tooth would have closed up as his teeth crowded to the front of his mouth.
@ sth the relinquished: The ortho in the town where I grew up totally told people to do stuff just for kicks. He also swindled basically the entire town, with the help of one of the dentists, and slapped braces and headgear on a whole pile of 9-year-olds.
Check sig for details!
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:04 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:41 pm
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Jafthasleftthebuilding Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:49 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 2:38 pm
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