Braces... >.>

[Gunter]

2 days...

I have just 2 days to myself, 2 days to live my life like a normal human being before I'm gonna be tortured for the next 28 months. 2 days left to enjoy the simple pleasures like potato chips, hard carrots and fried chicken....

Just 2 days...

And I'm driving myself mad!!! @.@

I don't think I can do this, live for two years and not eat fried chicken. I'm a black person for heaven's sake! I live for fried chicken and pretty much all the foods I won't be allowed to eat. I don't know what to do...

I'm seriously stressing myself out about this...

Everyone tells me that braces don't hurt, that everything will be fine but then I listen to the stories people who've had braces tell and it's nothing but pain! Someone is lying to me, I just know it but I don't know which one and it's freaking me out. I don't like pain... I don't like it at all... and I'm about to have four teeth pulled, one removed from inside my gums and the rest simply pulled apart and rearranged very slowly...

...I'm scared guys... I really am....

*runs off to listen to the Numa Numa song for three hours in an attempt to calm down*

[LockHeart]

Never had braces, but I know people who have/had. From what I've gathered it's not fun.

No fried chicken? *twitches* I'd die.

Dental work has never made me happy, though I wish I could get my wisdom teeth out. They hurt every once in awhile.

Why can't you have fried chicken? The coating suppose to be too hard and make the suckers pop off? Take these two days to enjoy yourself. i'm sure after you've had them on for sometime you'll be up and breaking the rules. ^_^

[Gunter]

Fried chicken, as well as carrots, candy, gum, potato chips, BBQ ribs/chicken, and some other things I love to eat will cause the little connecter things to pop off of my teeth and I'll have to get them replaced... because, despite finding cures for cancer and creating glue that can hang pianos from the ceiling, we can't glue braces onto teeth worth shat... -_-

But I had some chicken for dinner yesterday and I haven't a clue what's on the menu tonight but it better deal with carrots...

[Malice]

lol,
Yeah, I guess we haven't advanced much in the field of perfect teeth.

[Gunter]

Woo! I'm so happy now! I just discovered that I'm not getting the braces tomorrow, just going for surgery. The braces will have to wait a few weeks! Wootage! *dances*

[Sargy [Jigg]]

I'm getting Braces soon, River. Don't worry about it, don't worry at all. At least 7 of my friends had braces, and they didn't mind it, you can still eat what you like, just don't chew to hard. ^^

[River]

Really? My dentist gave me a whole list of things not to eat... which sucks because my whole diet was on that list. T.T

But I'm growing more confident about this whole business now after the surgery. I didn't need to take any pain medication and it hadn't hurt at all so... I guess braces can't be much worse, right? Plus, a lot of my own friends are telling me that it's not that bad. Can't say I'm enthused about it though since I'm gonna have to wear them for 28 friggin months and all of this bs is costing my family over 7 thousand dollars...

I could've had a car with that cash! ><

[feriuswasloggedout]

I had them before, now i have them agirn -sob- not so bad after the first couple of weeks. and hell yes, it does hurt. You adult teeth are being broken out of the hold in your jaw that they had and being forced into a new place. psaw it hurts.

[River]

O.O *whimpers*

[[D] ame]

<sup>-takes a seat-
I used to have braces, I'll admit they're not really that much fun- as I had em for 4 years, but the results are amazing. And when the dentists tell you that you can't eat a lot of the foods that you used to and that you liked to eat- I personally believe they're just bitchin because its their job. I mean, when I had braces I ate everything- chips, pop, carrots, candy and I chewed gum which are all no-nos. However I refused to eat apples because pieces of the apple (when its not cut up) gets in behind the wires and is a pain in the arsenal to get out x__x

But I mean, if you eat them excessively then I don't think there is a problem. But I'm skeptical about the 'no fried chicken' I mean, what is it going to do to you? -blinks-
And yes, I won't lie the first few weeks are the most painful. But after your teeth adjust then it doesn't hurt as much, but then you also have the first few tightenings that hurt but by the first 5-6ish months of having them (in general) you probably won't feel any pain with the tightenings and adjustments they make. For me it was different, my body adapts quickly to basically everything and anything, so by the first 3-4ish months I was fine.

And as far as getting teeth pulled, I've only had 2 pulled and I find that the needles were the worse. If you haven't had teeth pulled before they basically put that weird laughing gas crap on you and then freeze your gums- with a horrible needle of course. And yeah, then you can't feel anything and your mouth is numb for a little while. Remember to take some painkillers when you get home because after the freezing dies off your mouth starts to hurt a lot. Mine gave me a migraine and I took a day off of school to sleep- but the up side is that you get lots of popsicles and jello ^^
But I can really and truly say that its worth the pain and frustration of having braces because I look back at the pictures before I had them and I was 'ew' I'd look so much different with crooked teeth and an overbite.
Oh and just in case you were wondering, here's an after/current picture since I got my braces off like, a year ago. Clickie. ^^ Oh! PS- don't forget to brush your teeth, or if you go to someone's house bring a toothbrush because your mouth can taste quite fowl in the morning when you have braces and forget to brush x____x;
Good luck! <3</sup>

[Morsus]

Er, not to rain on the parade or anything, but this thread is already 5 months old. o.o;;

[[D] ame]

o___o
Oh. LMAO
Uhm.. yeah.. sorry.
-wanders off sheepishly-