Beginning of my Braces

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June 10th I got my braces on. I need 4 premolars extracted because I have a lot of crowding so they didn't put wires on yet. I'm getting them extracted on July 8th and the wire will be put on the 15th. Above is a picture from the day I went to get them on, before they were put on obviously. The 2 at the bottom sticking out weirdly are my canines and on the top you can see 1 of them is high above my other teeth. The other 1 is a bit higher and is hidden by my lip in this picture.


Below is a picture I took the day they were put on. There's no wire and they are radiance braces (I think).

Here is a few days after I've had them. I was just taking more pictures. You can see in the 2nd picture they aren't very noticeable at all. In the 3rd picture you can see where they left the brackets off the teeth to be extracted.

When I first got them on they put blue cement on my molars. It seems like it's the same stuff they fill your teeth with but blue. It's so that my front top teeth won't bite the brackets off. This picture was taken after I went to get more on because it had kind of chipped away and my front tooth was touching the bracket. She put a lot on which is nice but bad at the same time. I have a very hard time eating since my teeth aren't touching. The gap is pretty obvious as it is and even more so if you compare it to the first pictures.

The pictures below are me with my mouth closed completely.

Doing this makes me laugh a lot lol

If you're considering getting braces is definitely good to get a second or even third opinion and find one you're comfortable with because you will be seeing them a lot and they're changing your mouth (possibly sending you to get teeth removed like me!). The first orthodontist I went to was pretty rude to me basically saying I had ugly teeth which I already felt bad about like it's so unprofessional to even imply that to a patient. He kept telling me over and over that if I had come when I was 12 they could've expanded my mouth instead of extracting teeth. I ended up crying because it's like I'm not 12 anymore I'm almost 18. I felt like I was to late. The thought of having extractions scared me. It was a horrible experience. We found a new orthodontist who is very nice and I feel like his treatment will be better because the first guy said it would take a year or year and a half which didn't seem right to me. My new orthodontist says 2 years or more which seems like a more usual treatment because the bone needs time to regrow and heal. My new orthodontist is nice and he and his employees handle my anxiety well. I feel safe with them that they are doing the right things. They're charging us less and gave me a whole goodie bag of stuff. Below you can see everything I got. A reusable bag. Oral-b electric toothbrush with 2 ortho heads and this other strange looking one. Crest alcohol free mouthwash. Lots of wax. She gave me extra because of the weird positions my teeth are in. Chapstick. Crest pro health toothpaste which I'm allergic to apparently. Oral-b floss stings made for braces and surprise earrings I had no idea I'd get them. They look like my brackets.

Fish at the front desk

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