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Anyone here have braces as a kid/teen/adult? Any horror stories?

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Mauzy:
I'm sooo happy I get mine off 3 months early on Monday! I can say I suffered no mouth lacerations in PE and never got anything caught on or between brackets. I only broke 2 brackets and one wire (the day before an appointment to get it changed...). I got lucky, but does anyone have any horror stories involving their own experiences?

SavannahLion:
No real horror story. I had my braces for five years. Four years beyond what the original plan called for. I got them in high school and I was already in college before I had them removed.

When I had them removed, it was discovered the intense pressure from a band around my molar crushed the tooth. Because the band was the only thing holding tooth together, I had to keep the band on for another year until I could scrounge enough insurance and cash together to remove the band and have a false one put in.

Oddly enough, my orthodontist called looking to schedule an appointment for a checkup ??? Over eight years since I last saw them.

It's been a good ten years since I last had them removed and I still have a brace pattern on the inside of my bottom lip. It's getting better, I can't tell where the wire used to be.

Mauzy:
Wow. Crappy orthodontist. How could they not realize that was happening or going to happen?

ChadTower:
I had them for probably three years.  Before that had a big retainer to correct TMJ that caused severe migraines.  After braces I had to sleep with a smaller retainer for a couple years to make sure nothing floated back.  Never any headgear or anything I couldn't hide by closing my mouth.  Had elastics off and on and it sucks when those snap.

No real horror stories, I guess.  I did get a lot of cuts in my mouth but those were always externally caused.  I was always playing some sport, climbing some tree, etc.  Fights too.  Cuts in your mouth around the braces can take weeks to heal when they would normally take days.  I knocked a couple brackets off and had to have them reglued.  When they finally all came off my teeth had a light yellow stencil pattern on them that took a couple years to wear off.

Only real dental horror story I have way predates braces.  Got all four of my front top teeth broken in a car accident when I was like 5.

romperwomb:
My horror story was pre-braces, retainer related.  It was time for recess in 6th grade and I was running. My retainer dropped down off the roof of my mouth and fell to the back my throat.  It managed to poke and grab onto my tonsils.  I froze and freaked when I realized I couldn't just pull it out.  I was taken to the school nurse and almost barfed all over the principal, as he was holding a flashlight for the nurse trying to see if she could get it out.  Fortunately it came out and I went off to get checked by my Doctor.  Nothing came of it, but I was more careful about letting it drop down off the roof of my mouth.

I still have recurring dreams about having to put my retainers in at night 16 years later.  I'm just grateful I didn't have head-gear like my cousin.

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