Just came back from my second appointmemt with the dentist and he just put rubber bands between my molars and oh god it hurts like hell😖
All 4 years of high school. Got them on like the third day of grade 9 and didn’t have them taken out until a couple months after high school ended.
I had Invisalign for 3 years, my partner had braces for 5. We both agree that the pain was far worse in the beginning when they’re really wrenching your teeth into place, and then gets a lot better once they start doing the more precise movements, which take up a good chunk of the total time.
Like all medical procedures though, it can be different for everybody.
Two years, and I had to wear headgear. Not sure if that’s still a thing, but it was a big metal contraption that went around your whole head. The pain was unbearable and I had no social life from how weird it looked.
I never had braces.
It’s been a long time but I remember it being something like 18-24 months. Not a short ordeal.
genuinely the only time mine hurt to the point of not being able to eat was the first week. Other times it hurt a little but I was essentially fine.
oh but if theres a little bit of metal bar poking the back of your cheek make sure to take a trip over and get it trimmed down, your teeth shifted and got closer together leading to the metal bits extending too far out. I was under the belief that it was supposed to be like that and I just had to get used to it and it HURTTT
edit: oh and 2.5 years, got delayed a bit
For like 20 years? I still have them, but hardly ever use them these days. Belts are just more convenient.
You jest, but someone I know had them on and off for almost 15 years. The full backstory is uninteresting, but the conclusion is that it was what got them into studying dentistry.
A few years? When they say use the plastic things after, use them. My teeth are now back to how they were before braces.
I started in 2020 and am now closed to being done, but that might habe taken so long because i am an adult and my teeth were realy shit (got 8 teeth removed 4 of them the wisdom teeth just to make enought space). Sometimes it hurt but it was definitly worth it.
About two years at the start of high school. Ultimately worth it.
