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Time for a wire change?

March 13th, 2012

So now you have your braces, the wire has been fitted, and you have been called back to have a new wire fitted to start the tooth moving process. This short video explains how simple a wire change is – of course there is much more to it ‘behind’ the scenes – your orthodontist has to assess how much movement to initiate with each wire change, what gauge wire to use, whether any kinks or twists need to be added to the wire to get the movement required, reshaping of the wire and finally inserting and trimming to ensure you have ...

Adult Braces Journey – Recap

February 6th, 2012

I wanted to show you all what I looked like with my braces. I am posting this a few months after I got them off, and it seems so strange now to see myself with the braces when they seemed so common place and normal just a few short months ago! Watch and see as I give you a quick recap of being in braces as an adult.

Adult Braces Journey – Well Who Would Have Thought?

March 12th, 2011

If there is one thing I should have learned throughout this whole experience, it is that these guys know what they are talking about!  I was assured that I would get used to the retainer and that it would not be so difficult to talk the more I did it.  I, on the other hand, was convinced that they were talking about people who had nice little retainers, not great big purple hunks of plastic like mine was…. Well guess what…by the 4th day it was a so much better, and I had only a slightly noticeable shushing sound on my ...