<p>I'm getting mine next year! :D</p>
<p>ive never had them. im glad too...i love my crooked teeth. theyd make a shark proud. lol jk</p>
<p>LoL! man, but i hated braces, the things hurt like ****, and a week after i got em on... BAM, THanksgiving! and the food was good too! grrrr</p>
<p>i think i wore them for about 2 years, my teeth were only a bit crooked, but i had a pretty bad overbite</p>
<p>Yeah I had them. I've had them off for a year and a half and I just broke my retainer. Do you think my teeth could still move?</p>
<p>I had braces for 2 years, got them off 6 months ago, and I have a retainer right now. </p>
<p>Ughh ilovetocamp - thanksgiving is the worst day to get your braces! - i sympathize with you about the food... :)</p>
<p>permanent bottom retainer, never notice tho. it just blends in i guess</p>
<p>had braces only on my bottow row, didn't really mind them as they never got in the way of eating *. only problem i had was because my orthadontist didn't cut off the ends of the wire too well, so the sharp ends would slowly cut up the insides of my cheeks :mad: </p>
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<li>nor kissing (i'm joking right? hehe)</li>
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<p>LoL! Honestly though guys, a show of hands... who actually followed the list of foods you wern't supposed to eat?</p>
<p>I sure as heck didn't, I ate ice cream, apples, chewed gum... all that stuff, and nothing serious seemed to happen.</p>
<p>had them for almost 4 years, got them off last june. I wore the retainer until it got broken.</p>
<p>I DID NOT AT ALL follow the list - i ate popcorn, apples with the peel and all, chewed gum, ate caramel candy, etc.</p>
<p>...i had some unpleasant brushing sessions and always got a scowl from my orthodontist, but my teeth are fine now, so whatever! :D</p>
<p>NO ONE i know who has had braces has ever followed that list lol :)</p>
<p>LoL!</p>
<p>yeh, my orthodonist doesn't normally "scowl", defintely not as bad as urs... heh, but this time she was precoccupied and since i hadn't worn my retainer in a while, i got chewed out quite a bit</p>
<p>Wow, my orthodontist is tellin me I'm doing great and I hardly wear the headgear. All I wear are the rubberbands.</p>
<p>I got my braces off last October, the week before senior portraits. lol I had my bottom ones for nearly two years and my top ones for just over a year. (Never really needed the top ones.)</p>
<p>I still wear my retainer. Lately it's been only at night.</p>
<p>Oh yeah...and I actually did follow the list, more or less (never followed the gum "rule" lol). I didn't follow the list at all for a little while during Christmastime, and as I ate a piece of caramel popcorn, it popped off my bracket. It chipped off my enamel and I had to get fake enamel put on the tooth or whatever. It actually does hurt when I press it hard with my finger at a certain angle, but I haven't noticed it when I eat.</p>
<p>heh, i tried to wear it at night but it kept on falling off, and i would be scrambling to find it before the bus came... it made me mad</p>
<p>i compensate by not wearing it overnight by wearing it an extra hour or two</p>
<p>lol i never follow the rules neither. I chewed gum all the time.
The most annoying thing about braces was when pieces of food got stuck there.
Currently, I just wear my retainer when i go to sleep.</p>
<p>i got my braces a month ago, and i have to wear them for 18 months, then I get them off for high school graduation.</p>
<p>I got mine junior year for 4 months.</p>
<p>i had braces for six years, my cuz had em for 8 years and now has em on again. my teeth are beautiful though. i might want to get braces on again later to fix my bottom teeth just a little. i sort of miss them, i went through so many hardships with them.</p>
<p>I never have to wear them, thank god, but sometimes i think it's cute. I used to really want them for some reason, i really dont no why,because all thepopular skinny girls had them</p>
<p>sry! unfinished thought! I meant to add that i have an odd vendetta against popular girls</p>
<p>haha i got them in third grade and got them off in 5th! wore a retainer for a couple years untill i was told i needed them again! i bit the ortho when he told me! so i had them from 8th grade till the end of my freshman year! got them off two days before summer! WOO HOO! i have to wear a retainer every night and i have a perminate one on my bottom teeth! they suck and im glade they are gone!
~WEAR UR RUBBER BANDS!! i didnt untill like a week before each ortho! u get them off so much faster if u do!</p>