And I'm curious, who here has had braces or currently has them now? Or like, does anybody else have interesting dental problems or need braces? sepia fucked around with this message on 07-26-2004 at 11:21 PM.
The concept is just too horrifying for me to even consider doing, so I declined. I'd rather have some teeth yanked out than have to crank my jaw open. Eugh.
Now I have a retainer which holds two fake teeth. Heh, that's one way to make someone wear a retainer.
I now have a small wire welded to the back of my lower front teeth, and I should get my retainer refitted since my wisdom teeth grew in and made the gap too small it to fit around the molars.
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Byrnie had this to say about Robocop:
I had braces for awhile, I don't think I ate solid food for about two days.Now I have a retainer which holds two fake teeth. Heh, that's one way to make someone wear a retainer.
...Holy shit, same here.
Braces suck. I fecking hate braces. HATE HATE HATE them. I'm so glad I don't have to have those things in my mouth anymore, although this retainer isn't a whole lot better. At least it doesn't feel like my mouth got punched into my skull and ripped back out to normal shape, cartoon-style.
I had to have my jaws enlarged, too. Both of them. I hate dentistry.
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Check out the big brain on Densetsu!
Am I the only person who's dentist wasn't an idiot and didn't tell the parents of every patient he had that their kids needed braces?
No, but I highly doubt they're all frauds that are just out for your money.
Snagging occasionally, wires poking or the things on the teeth poking, wires coming undone from biting on something tougher than expected(like tough meat that pushes on them), said wires becoming lodged under the things on the teeth and pushing that tooth and the others next to it in, etc.
I'm glad they said I could get them out sooner than expected.
It's just a matter of how badly your parents wanted you to have a good looking smile.
And Sepia, that sounds so horrificly painful I can't even comprehend it.
Cranking anything with a key that's attached to my body in any way sounds.... terrible.
It was like a dull ache throughout all the top teeth in my mouth. Unless you bit down, then it was great times for all.
I have massive jaws so luckily I don't have to slowly crank them open with a key. 
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Densetsu obviously shouldn't have said:
Am I the only person who's dentist wasn't an idiot and didn't tell the parents of every patient he had that their kids needed braces?
Nope. In fact my dentist asked once if I had them because he had never seen anyone with teeth naturaly strait as mine. Though I do have some of my baby teeth still.
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Black got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
I had the same as sepia, except it was on the roof of my mouth. And it was adjusted brutally every 2 weeks. Adjustment days were ones filled with pain and not much eating.It was like a dull ache throughout all the top teeth in my mouth. Unless you bit down, then it was great times for all.
Same here.. but I had to adjust mine a full turn every day.. I had a fucked up jaw.
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Peter said this about your mom:
Nope. In fact my dentist asked once if I had them because he had never seen anyone with teeth naturaly strait as mine. Though I do have some of my baby teeth still.
Haha! I'm not the only one!
And I agree with what Lashanna said about the cranking of anything in one's body. *shudder*
Not to mention that they fucked up my lingual wire (permanent retainer on the back of your teeth) the wire snapped during or just after receiving it.. So my top front teeth are now separated slightly. I have to wear my damn retainer now to fix it. 
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Monica had this to say about Captain Planet:
I had braces... I also had 4 adult teeth pulled because I didn't have room in my mouth for them... they never told me anything about "widening my jaw" or anything, they just said the teeth would have to come out.
I had 6 adult teeth removed. 2 were under the baby teeth and gum.. They had to take the teeth out, cut away the gum, then pull out the little adult teeth, then sew me back up.
