"Did you ever have braces, or wish you did?"

Hello,

Who of the people here ever had braces? Did you like or hate them. And do you feel they did a good job?

If you have a wish to wear braces, why would you like them?

I personally had braces at the age of 13, first headgears and a retainer after that. unfortunately I believe that my teeth are still crooked.

I did. My upper jaw was growing triangular, and the front teeth were crossing. (It's still a bit triangular, but the teeth aren't crossing each other) and like my mom, I have a small mouth, so the teeth were crowding each other. Had them, complete with elastics, retainer, and head gear for night for most of a year.

I hated them, especially the head gear.

I had metal band braces on my teeth in the 60's. I had to have 5 permanent teeth pulled first. Because I had an impacted tooth on my bottom jaw, they attached an elastic band from it to my upper braces. Like everyone else, I had the joy of having a retainer as well. I had the braces taken off my senior year in high school. A senior girl who also had braces said to me AFTER I had them taken off that we should have kissed and see if the braces got stuck together. Opportunity missed.

I had braces as a patient, and have meanwhile developed a braces fetish. Love to wear my fake braces. Can anyone relate?

I believe the question relates to orthodontics. For me, it's about replacing missing teeth that I won't be able to replace with implant-supported teeth because of my heart failure.

I wore braces for nearly three years when I was 42 years old (back around 1990). I had a severe overbite. I had the full metal type with power chains and headgear…as an adult! Strangely, I loved the pain from the Mass movement of my teeth…especially after adjustments! At times, even biting into jello was painful! You can read about my orthodontic fetish in my profile. ALSO, I have a photo album posted here in Zity, on My Dental fetish, featuring dozens of clear, up close, pictures of braces. Check it out and let me know what you think! BTW: I still wear retainers at night at 77 years of age.

I wore them for 2-3 years in middle school and freshman year of high school. I hated them. They hurt for a week everytime they tightened or adjusted them. My cheeks were always rubbed and chaffed too. Plus I didn't like the way they looked.

@BenDover

Yes, the rubbing of the brackets on the inside of the cheeks was probably the most annoying thing with my braces, too. The constant pressure of all the slowly moving teeth through my gums, however, was a nice, reassuring “pain” knowing that my teeth were moving to a better place! I especially liked the constant pressure of the headgear pulling back the entire upper arch, too. Overall, I enjoyed my time with braces — and just accepted the discomfort after each adjustment as part of the necessary process to make things better down the road. I was actually kind of sad when they were removed as they had become a “part of me” for almost three years.

As a kid, I always wanted braces because I thought my teeth were crooked. I also did just really like the look of them. I was super jealous of all my friends that had them.

It was one of my greatest fears as a kid to ever have to need braces or more realistically, have some dentist convincing my parents that I needed them. The idea of looking like some nerdy little twerp horrified me. It was too awful to contemplate.

But fate intervened, some of my teeth got knocked out playing football and the idea of braces became somewhat academic. Instead I got the real full treatment with a protheses. Other people couldn't see them, but good grief what a protracted bother and worry they were.