Braces

[Empired]

Yeah I broke my braces on toffee. I thought it was just a myth, but it's true ;s

They're fine for the first two or three hours after you first have them put on, but after that you have to live through about forty-eight hours of hell! Luckily, it calms down after two or three days
Beforehand, I suggest you plan every meal you eat for two days after first getting them on. Choose soft foods only because when I had mine first on I wanted to cryyy during mealtimes. You should do this every time they get tightened too (ugh).

Edit: oh yeah. For me, I got loadsss of ulcers and it was so painful just to move my mouth Before you leave the orthodontists, make sure the wire isn't sticking out at either end (you'll see what I mean when you get them :S) because it's so ow if they're even just a tiny bit wrong!

[FlyingJesus]

The pain isn't so much in your teeth moving as that's fairly gradual. The way they rip your gums and cheek lining apart every time you open and close your mouth is worse by a long way

[=Lizzy]

The pain isn't so much in your teeth moving as that's fairly gradual. The way they rip your gums and cheek lining apart every time you open and close your mouth is worse by a long way

LMAO trust you to make me more worried about tearing my gums apart

[Jack!]

LMAO trust you to make me more worried about tearing my gums apart

I had braces for 6, nearly 7 years, I got so used to them it was unreal having them off, From when I just hit 10, till just before my 17th birthday, which was 5 months ago.
And for 2 Years I had headgear that I had to wear at night.

after probably a year, I would just eat anything, once you know the limits of them, you kind of re-learn how to eat.

But, when I first got them, I lived of soup!

Just 2 years left on retainers now :rolleyes:

Oh, and at the ripping skin off bit, you will find after a while the skin in your mouth gets more resilient to the braces, only time it may hurt is when you got for a checkup and get the wire adjusted, times I've had to go back because the wire was too long and digging into the rear of my mouth.
You get a small tub of soft wax, so if you do find any hard points, you can put a bit of wax on each day (And some more after you eat, etc) Just to stop it digging in, until you can get it adjusted.