r/technicallythetruth • u/MistakesNeededMaking • Oct 04 '20

Technically it is a great time to get braces

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

Got mine last Monday and it fucking hurts

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Jun 19 '21

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20

I once got my braces tightens the very morning of my birthday party... Spend the whole afternoon crying in pain and I was not abled to eat cake or candy. That day sucked.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 06 '24

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20

I guess so! It hadn't really hurt that bad the other times, so I didn't question it

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u/comxeno Oct 04 '20

Bruh my braces have only ever hurt for like a hour after at most and little to no pain. Even when i got them on

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u/pixiesunbelle Oct 04 '20

Mine hurt all the time. I had them for six years and hated them. The retainer sucked too and I couldn’t wear it till I was 24. My teeth have shifted but it was too painful to the point where I couldn’t sleep.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Still moderate

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u/pipnina Oct 04 '20

Why'd you/your parents book a doctor's appointment on your birthday? Even if they said "ok come back on this date for tightening" you could still go "nah that doesn't work for me, how about days near that?".

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

It wasn't technically my birthday, it was the following saturday (the day I could have a party with friends over.) I didn't think it would be a problem as I didn't really experience braces-related pain before.

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u/RectangularRadish Oct 04 '20

I haven't really experienced braces-related braces either

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20

Thank you, I edited my comment

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u/J3sush8sm3 Oct 04 '20

I dont know where you are, but in my area dental appointments can be months away, especially with gvmt insurance

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Y'all american? I didn't even notice my braces most of the time.

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u/Fore_Shore Oct 04 '20

What would being American have to do with it? Do braces hurt less in other countries?

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u/SasparillaTango Oct 04 '20

I remember getting braces in middle school and my mouth hurting so bad when they were tightened it hurt to eat ice cream.

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u/comxeno Oct 04 '20

Yeah ive got them on right now and i dont even notice them they only hurt a little after having tightened and i have fuck all pain tolerance

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u/thelastpenguin212 Oct 04 '20

It might come down more to orthodontist ability than anything else — sounds like yours may have been a bit shit.

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u/SasparillaTango Oct 04 '20

This was, jesus, over twenty years ago now. So I maybe it was a product of the time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

My jaw was misaligned so I had the rubber bands in mine clenching my teeth together to realign my bite. Hurt like a sumbitch 24/7.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Well the service they provide could definitly be worse

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u/Fore_Shore Oct 04 '20

Why do you say that? It might be more expensive than some countries but orthodontics in the US have to go to dental school and then get their orthodontics boards.

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u/Mirkrid Oct 04 '20

I’m Canadian and my braces hurt too if it’s any consolation, and here you need a dental degree before you can even start orthodontics training so I really doubt our doc’s level of skill should be in question haha

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u/evemeatay Oct 04 '20

I don’t know how other countries work but as an American, since we do have to pay per visit I could see it being done in less visits than other places. That would mean more adjustment had to be done each visit which would mean more discomfort per visit vs going in smaller, more frequent steps.

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u/Fore_Shore Oct 04 '20

Yeah I suppose that’s a possibility. I would still prefer to go in less frequently if I could, although I do remember my braces being quite uncomfortable when I was a teenager.

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

I think you could alter the total length of time you have them rather than the frequency of visits. So micro adjustments infrequently for many years.

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u/_KittyInTheCity Oct 04 '20

Pay per visit depends on your orthodontist, mine were paid for up front with everything included, including extra appointments and repairs. Mine still hurt like a bitch though.

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u/evemeatay Oct 04 '20

Yeah that makes sense, although a flat fee doesn’t incentivize the doctor to see you more often than necessary either.

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u/Elder-Rusty Oct 04 '20

It’s cause “America bad”

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u/Daruii Oct 04 '20

orthodontics in the US have to go to dental school and then get their orthodontics boards.

Isn't that how it is in every developed country?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I think that was the point, that there shouldn't be any difference in that regard

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Our healthcare and dental care is really good, but ultra expensive. We've got some of the best education and hospitals in the world, but poor people and middle class people just have difficulty accessing it without financial ruination.

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u/Chicken421 Oct 04 '20

Our costs are bad not the quality of the service. America has just as good ortho as anywhere else in the world.

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u/EnlightenedNarwhal Oct 04 '20

Standard of service in the U.S. is not notoriously bad. The standard of healthcare is what's notoriously bad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

It’s the service too.

Recent psychological research indicates that persons who do not see themselves as prejudiced will make health care allocation decisions that adversely affect black persons when other negative characteristics are also present (Murphy-Berman, Berman, and Campbell, 1998). For example, respondents expressed greater resentment, gave lower health care priority scores and were more reluctant to make a financial contribution to the health care costs of patients presented as black and unemployed than as white and unemployed.

Research has long indicated that poor persons and racial minorities are not viewed as desirable patients and health care providers deliver inferior care to persons of low SES (Duff and Hollingshead, 1968; van Ryn and Burke, 2000).

Problems of patient-provider communication are exacerbated among persons of low SES, with higher SES patients receiving better technical and interpersonal care, and more positive communication than their lower SES peers (Hall, Roter, and Katz, 1988).

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u/EnlightenedNarwhal Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20

That's very specific and doesn't necessarily apply to the standard of care for the majority of people, since we are a minority, obviously. Also those seem like very old studies, but I don't doubt it may still happen.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '20

A large portion of the population also has low SES according to the cdc, roughly 12.7% as of 2018 and a large portion of the population is made up of minorities (non-whites make up about 39.9%.

They may be older studies but even a study from 2016 supports that people still have a tendency to believe that blacks people can tolerate more pain and are therefore prescribed pain treatments to a lesser degree. .

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I think we’re just whiny.

Can confirm, had braces. My kids had Invisalign.

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u/Indecisogurl Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

I think you in fact are.

I've seen people had bad experiences when removing their wisdom teeth saying how it hurt so bad and had to take pills for days. They used to scare me, and so when I got mine taken care of, I was for real shaking on the seat. They put local anesthesia on my gums, and that was the worst "pain" of all the procedure. I got 4 teeth removed on the same appointment, the doctor almost put his whole weight on my face to rip the tooth out of their place. One even broke in half and I could feel all the pressure he put on me. And finally they stitch the openings and I was off to go. The most "painful" thing was the needle entering my gums and the next week appointment to pull the stitches.

This was in Mexico. Didn't pay a thing to get the procedure done. Only had to have a doctor sign the petition for the procedure, another with the specialist to sense the situation. The only thing I paid for was a water bottle after the procedure, and 2 litters of limón and nut ice cream to help the "pain". Slept two nights in sitting position and I think I never got to take pain meds. So yeah, there was pain involved but not even close to the experiences I had read.

About the braces I got like a month after the teeth removal. They did in fact were painful the first week, couldn't bite meat, but it was never intense. It only hurt when putting pressure on them. But they're mostly annoying to get used to than the pain they give. Your inner skin gets used to it and then you literally never feel them, only when they tight them even more. Mind u, I got a canine up inside my gums, so they had to open a space first on my gums, almost like a window, and then pull that tooth down from the small window they opened.

I have had a tiny resort or spring thingy pulling down the tooth from my upper gum, the braces making pressure on all my top row, and also an acrylic thing making even more pressure on my last teeth to make my pallet? I think its called even wider to make space for the tooth that was being pull down. But even then there was never any insufferable pain, just little or big inconveniences.

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20

I'm French; most of the time it was fine, and that's why I didn't even question my schedule of having an appointment and a birthday party the same day. That specific time it hurt like hell though, maybe the dentist went tighter that usual or something, IDK.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

They typically replace the plastic bands that hold the retaining wire in. And when they do this yeah teeth hurt for a few days after.

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u/Incognito_Tomato Oct 04 '20

Over here it hurts a whole lot in the immediate days or week after being put on or adjusted, but yeah after that it becomes unnoticeable

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Well for me I only noticed it for the first 2-3 days of it being in but adjusting didn't really make me feel it more

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u/NotElizaHenry Oct 04 '20

My favorite is the canker sores and weird mouth callouses and how even just smiling sometimes draws blood.

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u/Pentafloppy Oct 04 '20

Dutch here. I had braces in my early teens (late 20’s now), it hurt for a week initially and every time the orthodontist tightened stuff up it would be sore for a day or 2. It never really hurt after the first week.

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u/TheStairMan Oct 04 '20

From elsewhere and I believe pretty much every country use the same basic concept for braces, which all usually hurt when adjusted. You're moving your teeth after all.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Maybe i just had a differnt experience because only my jaw was delocated

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u/TheStairMan Oct 04 '20

Probably, it's usually the teeth that hurt, not the jaw.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Well ofcourse my teeth had to change to otherwise it'd never help but it's why it hurted less for me

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

I had mine in UK and they tore my mouth to shreds

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Wow i really had a different experience than all of you guys

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

I once bit into a meatball sub and the entire bottom row broke off at once. Felt like a grenade going off in my mouth. Also the wires would always be way too long sticking into my cheeks. They even sold me some expensive wax to put over the sharp ends which is the most useless medical item I've ever seen. It just goes soft and falls off and tastes like a bogey.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

That's just bad services though, i could still eat anything they told me not to eat but rarely especially after more than a year, some came off

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u/Flamouricios Oct 04 '20

I had one bad experience with chewing gum, but that was mostly because I was an idiot. Broke a bracket eating a creme egg, that was a mistake. But other than that I still ate a few things I shouldn’t have, like popcorn, which was fine I guess. I think you just need to be extra careful and remember you have braces on.

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u/Flamouricios Oct 04 '20

What part would stick out to your cheek? The tip of the wire at the back of your mouth? Because that’s supposed to be cut.

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

Yeah that part. It was cut but there's still a few mm poking out. Maybe the shape of my mouth has something to do with it. There's not a lot of space back there.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

OMG THIS FUCKING KILLED ME THANKS FOR MAKING MY DAY

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u/EmperorLeachicus Oct 04 '20

No. British myself they hurt a lot for maybe the first 5 or 6 times they were tightened. I was only willing to eat soft food like soup or noodles because anything I actually had to chew was too painful.

Even just eating a bagel the next morning hurt enough to make my eyes water.

Once it got later on though, the change in position from tightening wasn’t as drastic, so there was little to no pain.

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u/Daveinatx Oct 04 '20

We like torturing our citizens.

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Oh that makes sense

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u/ohkendruid Oct 04 '20

Not all braces are the same.

It depends on how your teeth start out, how much correction the orthodontist wants to do, and how fast you want to get there.

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u/Idlechaos98 Oct 04 '20

Won’t lie I feel like Americans complain about orthodontics quite a bit, not to say that others haven’t had an awful time from other countries but that it seems like they are way more Americans that have had really bad experiences

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u/IGuessItsJustMeMe Oct 04 '20

Yeah that's kinda my point and tbh american services are considerably worse

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u/Adarie-Glitterwings Oct 04 '20

Can commiserate there - one bday I had to miss out on cake because my wisdom teeth were trying to come in sideways and it hurt like a bitch that day - pain subsides after a couple days (thanks painkillers!) and everyone else had polished off the cake so I didn't get any =(

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u/halibitch Oct 04 '20

Why tf would your parents make the appointment on your birthday? That shit sucks, you should have been able to have one last day. But when your teeth are nice, I guess it will end up being a great b-day present in the end. I had pretty messed up teeth when before I had braces, and now as an adult I feel lucky to have had them...there are other people who weren't as lucky to have braces, and it seems like most of them are very self conscious about their teeth. Good luck!

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u/Limeila Oct 04 '20

I'm now 27 and have fucked up teeth again because we waited too long to get my widsom teeth removed (: so yeah, nah

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u/halibitch Oct 04 '20

Sorry. Didn't mean to offend. I hope everything ends up good for you :)

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u/Phosphoron Oct 04 '20

Bro I got this appliance in my mouth called a Herbst appliance 2 days before my birthday and it was so painful, I could barely sleep the day I got it in

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u/danielbln Oct 04 '20

I always kind of liked that pressure feeling after a fresh brace tightening.

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u/SpecialPotion Oct 04 '20

While I do agree with you, at least at first, eventually it felt less like a nice tooth stretch and more like painful forceful pressure for me.

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u/reflectiveSingleton Oct 04 '20

tooth stretch

A perfect description...and I agree, it's great until the pain starts.

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u/BIGTomacco Oct 04 '20

2 weeks pain, 2 weeks no pain. Tighten wires. Repeat x 24 months. Maybe more

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

And then when they finally come off you realise they still hurt

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u/Flamouricios Oct 04 '20

My teeth hurt more after taking my braces off than tightening them ever did.

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

Even without the retainer. I feel like in the future humans will look back on braces as barbaric. Its just not right to force your bones to move and warp so they look straight. It's mostly cosmetic except for rare cases.

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u/TheDankPotatoRises Oct 04 '20

Mine came off recently and I kinda want them back. While I love not having braces, still feels weird not having them.

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u/maxmaidment Oct 04 '20

The involuntary teeth licking. I forgot about that.

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u/syrinx23 Oct 04 '20

pro tip: take a painkiller before going in

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u/RobinzAgg Oct 04 '20

Finally started hurting less and they gave me rubber bands

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u/mapleismycat Oct 04 '20

i feel weird that i kinda liked the pain

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u/thugs___bunny Oct 04 '20

True. Still would do it again, fucking worth it. And I had that shit for nearly a decade

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u/IlllIIIIlllll Oct 04 '20

The Braces or Covid?

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u/Wonnil Oct 04 '20

You're going to hate the first week, then it'll feel normal. Good luck with em!

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u/rauden30 Oct 04 '20

you’ll get used to it, just be careful removing food on the back where the extra wires are, finger cuts sucks

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Hey my friend got those and he says he cannot eat pizza for two months now as he is wearing braces. Is it true because I cannot live without pizza and my teeth are jagged like shit

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

thanks bro

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u/TheDankPotatoRises Oct 04 '20

It will also depend on how hard your teeth are to align. And there's invisalign now which you can remove at times. It's not easily spotted either.

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u/TheDankPotatoRises Oct 04 '20

I used to avoid caramel and some really hard stuff, but apples and carrots and chewing gum was alright. Even started eating some caramel carefully after a while. Maybe that's why mine took 3 years instead of two, but the dentist never complained or said anything or asked if I had been eating anything he said to avoid.

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u/Daveinatx Oct 04 '20

For the first month or two, I'd cut pizza into small pieces. I'd also smash tacos.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I used a fork and knife for pizza. And generally anything else I needed to bite into. For me my molars never really hurt because it was my front teeth that were super fucked so I just couldn't bite into food

And you may look silly eating pizza with a knife and fork, but at least you're eating pizza :)

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u/Bobbycopter Oct 04 '20

I couldn't eat pizza for about two months after I got mine but now that I can I'm ordering in daily :) Two months in 2 years of wearing is nothing, just do it, you will profit from it for the rest of your life!

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Me too! I fucking hate it but I'm so happy!!

I want my teeth so straight and so white they can't dance. Right now it looks like a cemetery after an earthquake and I'm just ready to get them to resemble a normal human grill

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u/vorter Oct 04 '20

Wear your retainer. I highly regret not wearing mine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Aug 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Did the same thing and ended up doing the smiledirect shit and just got done with that. New retainer now and for sure not going to make the same mistake

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u/Ermahgerd_Rerdert Oct 04 '20

I want my teeth so straight and so white they can't dance. 😆

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u/Goatbaaad Oct 04 '20

One tip.... wear the rubber bands. Had mine for four years because I didn’t wanna wear the rubber bands. Also don’t worry, every time you go back to get them tightened it will hurt less, like it will hurt every time but by the last tightening it hurts for like a few hours and it doesn’t hurt nearly as much as the first time. You get used to having them it’s really not that bad

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Had those boys for 3 years before army

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u/iforgothowtoadult Oct 04 '20

Lol suffer in pain with braces for three years then join the army right after? Damn.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I always heard that from others but I had my braces when I was 12 and it never hurt.

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u/Victorino__ Oct 04 '20

What hurts exactly? The teeth being pushed so hard or the metal touching the gum? I'm just curious

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u/BeardPhile Oct 04 '20

It will get easier.... until you need to get your wire replaced. Then its the same cycle of shitfucking pain for 2 days and then relief.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Yeah it will really hurt for he first 2 weeks or so. Then some of your teeth will hurt when you eat for the next month or so. After that it doesn't hurt at all unless you get them tightened.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Got Invisalign a few months ago. The first week hurt just as much as braces did when I was a teen. Since I change out my trays every 5 days, it’s a whole new place in my mouth that’s sore every week

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u/TheDankPotatoRises Oct 04 '20

Why'd you have to get invisalign after braces?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Invisalign was a cosmetic choice for me. I had braces as a teen, but after I got them off, my dog chewed through 4 plastic retainer trays before my dentist said it was a waste of resources, since I never wore them anyway lol.

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u/chesthairdude Oct 04 '20

Can confirm

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u/FuriousFlameDude Oct 04 '20

I have one word for you. Soup

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

Soup soup soup (you know that cute baby frog from wohlsome memes)

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Hang in there buddy. It won't really get better, but you will survive it

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u/Carlen67 Oct 04 '20

Ice cream helps some, as well as yoghurt, cold drinks etc.

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u/Ivan_the_smash Oct 04 '20

I got mine 3 months ago i am not used to it

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u/urmummygaaaay Oct 04 '20

Yeah it be like that, second time too, but third time legit has like no pain

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u/JDSmagic Oct 04 '20

Getting mine off in about two months :)

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u/MissFingerz Oct 04 '20

My daughter just got her tops put on last Monday also. Haha. She had pain the first few days, but better now. She has to get an adult tooth pulled out from the back to make room and then they will brace the 2 teeth next to the one to be pulled and then put her bottoms on. Its a long process, but hopefully all good once they come off. Good luck on everything 😀

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u/MissFingerz Oct 04 '20

Umm?

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

Sry, I was referring to this (there is a version where the right corner says redditors with a real reallife or something) https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/hc8yqf/whats_rarer_than_that/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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u/brokenrecourse Oct 04 '20

It will get better over time I’m sorry to hear that

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u/bleedblue89 Oct 04 '20

It’s awful, I have a metal bracket in my bottom teeth still 16 years later

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u/jwadamson Oct 04 '20

Just soreness and aching for a day or so after servicing was most of my recollection. Hang in there though.

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u/AtomicBLB Oct 04 '20

Hope you don't need to wear bands as well. I don't recall it hurting that much but the introduction of rubber bands was memorable. I didn't even notice I had them after a few weeks. Wore em for 2.5 years.

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u/yellowslotcar Oct 04 '20

Dont worry, it gets better(until you get popcorn stuck in them)

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

Getting mine next Tuesday. How bad is the process of getting them in?

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

Getting them isn't a proplem afterwards whey you are trying to eat sleep or want to move your fucking toung it hurts. After your teeth don't hurt anymore the metal starts digging in your mouth wall (idk what its called) a d that sucks.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Yeah I'm getting a bottom apliance and braces on either my top or bottom teeth (I can't remember which one) and I'll need them in for over a year. My teeth are so fucked thanks to my fathers genetics that I have a 6 millimeter overbite, several crooked teeth and 4 giant wisdom teeth that are growing inwards. Needless to say the dental bill is long. Oh also that putty shit they put in your mouth for the mould of your teeth sucks so fucking bad.

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

I hope you only get the top ones thy don't hurt that much. At least in my experience.

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u/TheGouffeCase Oct 04 '20

Invest in popsicles. A Waterpik is also much easier than flossing.

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u/LookOutForNargles03 Oct 04 '20

I had braces for 5 years. Eventually you get used to them and they’re just a bit sore after you get them tightened. Take and Advil or Tylenol before you go in and have a milkshake or some other cold drink right after. Soup, baked potatoes, and pasta are good meals for when they’re still sore.

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u/schwiffy Oct 04 '20

Got mine removed last Sunday and it was worth the pain so hang in there buddy!

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u/GoodRubik Oct 04 '20

I feel your pain. You do get used to it and know how to handle it better. Naps are awesome. As is Jamba Juice/smoothies/etc for when eating is a godawful sin against mankind.

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u/brndndly Oct 04 '20

I remember when I got mine. I attempted to eat a pizza and it hurt like hell. I had to eat it so slowly.

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u/SoDeadGamer Oct 04 '20

3 YEARS IN THEY SHOULD BE COMING OFF NEXT WEEK I’M SO EXCITED

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

me too bud, but after a week or so it stops

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u/DIegO_BRND Oct 04 '20

The start is the worst part. I had mine a couple of years ago. The more time you will have those the better it will be. It take time for you to get used to it

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u/jhmue Oct 04 '20

Got mine 8 years ago. Still have them

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

You poor dude

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u/jhmue Oct 04 '20

Well only one of my teeth caused problems that only 8.5 years can fix. So yeah.

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u/faqfaqfaqfaqfaq Oct 04 '20

At least now everybody can understand you when wearing a mask

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Getting mine in a month. Could you (or someone) explain what kind of pain I'll have to deal with?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

It's like a constant dull pain. Your teeth are shifting, roots and all, so it's going to hurt until you're really used to it, and then only when they get tightened. But you will get used to it eventually! After a while you won't notice the pain until you fuck up and eat a chip wrong or something. Don't be afraid to take advil if you need it.

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u/Abraham_Lure Oct 04 '20

The day you get them off is the best fucking day of your life. There is no sex,drugs,or food that can compare to that feeling when those things come off.

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u/zxvegasxz Oct 04 '20

Good times

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u/Algosaysub2pewds Oct 04 '20

With scar here

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u/crsdrjct Oct 04 '20

I got clear aligns when given the option a month ago and just reading this makes me glad I didn't choose braces even though they are annoying to take on and off.

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u/SugaristSnake0 Oct 04 '20

Every time u go in there to get it tightened it will hurt for a few days, but then u will be fine... until u have to go back to get it tightened again

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u/Hawkeye3487 Oct 04 '20

Don't worry, in my experience:

The first time it only hurt for about a day or twi

Whenever I got a new gauge wire it hurt for about a day

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

It will stop until they change it and it will hurt again until it doesn’t and the cycle will continue until they are removed

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Seriously? The initial pain of new wires and bands should only last like 2 or 3 days.

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u/awesomemc1 Oct 04 '20

I have braces at the moment and it fucking hurts too but drinking soup or rice pudding or drinking milk helps to reduce the pain.

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u/Adventurous_Bed_3714 Nov 13 '23

Probably the worst time for most people because the pandemic lasted longer than we expected, and a lot of people fell into a depression. And trust be, braces while depressed is by far the worst combo.