<p>hi im 19, starting my freshman year of college this fall, and i just found out that i need braces. my dentist said that im not a candidate for the invisible ones and im going to have them on for almost 2 years. </p>
<p>should i not get them? i dont want people to look down on me for having them so late. do you think guys wont want to go out with me if im a brace-face? ha</p>
<p>^Honey, your two options are to have beautiful teeth or keep your crooked ones. Obviously the former sounds better, regardless if you are looked down upon. But as mostly everyone has said, no one cares if you have braces in college.</p>
<p>Teeth really are an important part of your appearance. Would you rather have a rough time for a couple years (you won’t though, I promise) or for the rest of your life???</p>
<p>My D had braces a little later than everybody else (not in college though) and it was completely fine. Nobody cared. I sort of wish that S would have had orthodontic treatment too as he had college friends with braces. I even know of adults with braces. D did not have the invisaline, but had clear brackets. These were completely optional and work the same as metal brackets. They give a much less obtrusive appearance than metal; you cannot really notice them from across a room or in photos that are not full head close-ups. Check it out.</p>
<p>Have you started braces in high school and then continued in college? I wondered if if is hard to find an new orthodontist in your college town who will agree to take over your treatment? Our ortho is discouraging starting before college becasue there won’t be time to finish and another ortho may not want to take on the case.</p>
<p>i found out that i need orthognathic surgery in late may/early june. I need to get the clear braces, not invisalign, and im a second semester freshman in college. I need to have them on until probably around thanksgiving. I am real nervous and I really don’t know whether or not I should get these. I am in a frat and will be moving into the house in august and i will still have braces on. what should i do? should i get them now or jsut wait until after college?</p>
<p>I’m a first-year student in college and I have braces. Out of the 1400 ish students in the first-year class at my university, I might just be one of a handful of guys with braces. 
I hate it, but oh well.</p>
<p>Some girls look pretty hot with braces tbh</p>
<p>I might be able to get mine off before my Freshman year, but my ortho is such a stickler! You miss one payment and he wont even touch your mouth.</p>
<p>I actually wanted the clear kind, but, for some reason, my mom thought they were extremely expensive. Like a week after I got my metal ones, I found an ortho that does the clear braces for about $100 more! Go figure!</p>
<p>Do people really wear retainers throughout their entire life (like my orthodontist said we should)… I stopped wearing mine since going to college (worn them for about two years).</p>
<p>Cause that seems obnoxious and not worth it. Retainers are absolutely disgusting to wear since they soak up saliva all night. I guess I could burn holes or something in them for ventilation.</p>
<p>Nope I never wear mine.</p>
<p>I wore my retainers for about two years before my doc said I didn’t have to wear them anymore. My bottom teeth have shifted though and someday I will have to have it corrected, the front bottom ones are crowding into each other. You can’t really see it looking at them but it hurts and is getting worse. I was only wearing them at night by the second year anyway, now I wish I’d worn them longer if it would have helped. They never bothered me, I even ate with mine in with no problems. <em>shrug</em></p>