Orthodontics

Who's had braces?

When did you have them and for how long did you have them?

Did you have any other "appliances" to go along with them?

If you haven't had them, do you wish you did?

Yes. I got them off about 2 years ago. Had them for about 2 1/2 years. I had the standard stainless steel type. With bands on practically all my molars. Not really any appliances. But I had hooks all over and had elastics and power-chains most the whole time except for about the first 3-4 months and last couple months.

I was stunned when first told I needed to get them. It was very late in life but my teeth although fairly straight - were all tipped in and arches out of alignment. So they did not fit well together and at times I would bite wrong and chip teeth. After I was done it was amazing how much better and worlds different. I wished they had decided sooner and I probably would not have had a lot of problems I did so early on.

I had braces from 14 to 16, just the regular metal ones and removable retainers afterwards.

I wore fixed Braces (metal brakets) in the Age from 13-16. After that i had retainers to wear at night. In this ages my braces fetish started & every night when i inserted my retainers i got horny hand had to masturbate. Yet i have a retainer glued to my inner front teeth. Poorly my old retainer broke so i can´t wear it anymore

I never had braces but always wanted them as a kid.

Well you're never too old. 😃 If you feel like your teeth are not as straight as you would like or maybe not aligned well as I found mine were. You can always go visit an orthodontist. Most have free consultation. You might be happy you did. I wish I had a lot sooner. There are many options these days. Invisalign, clear brackets, lingual (although I have heard those are really tough on the tongue). I can tell you though, once the decision is made it is a BIG commitment. And if you go with standard braces - many dental appointments. Invisalign is more at home - but you have to very disciplined to wear them and not comfortable. So typically people don't wear them or stop which results in failure. With bonded brackets they are on .... and you are in for the term. 😃

I am thinking about getting fixed braces again at the moment. I had them as a teen already but my teeth appear to have shifted again, so it would be my second round of braces. I guess I would be quite self-conscious at my age, but given the fact that embarrassing medical procedures are also a turn on for me there might be something to it. What do you guys think?

Surprisingly when I got mine on nobody really noticed. I thought at first it would be like this big old sign on my head....braces here. Lol. But really very few noticed. Or never said anything. At least not initially. Over time, yes. Even when I got them off. nobody really noticed. They were like hmmm. something is different. Did you get your hair cut???? So if your wondering what people think. they don't seem to notice. My biggest self conscious thing was having stuff caught in them after I ate. I was constantly brushing. I also went to cleaning every 3 months. Yes paid out of pocket. but felt so much better and my dentist loved how clean my teeth were.

I wear braces as adult for 4 years. fixed upper and lower and now I wear hawley retainer and fixed backside of my front teeth.

@Michaxx Do you like wearing the hawley retainer? do you wear them in public, or just in privacy?

I had braces for about 6 years!

Started off with a lot of retainers to make room for the teeth moving.

I had a full set of "head gear" I had to wear at night with my braces and many retainers thought the process.

Still have a retainer on my lower teeth.

@glutexo: yes I like to wear my retainer, most time at home and not in public. In holiday sometimes I wear the retainer.

I am thinking about getting braces again. trying to decide between traditional braces and invisalign. my insurance has a $1500 lifetime maximum for braces, so i am leaning towards traditional braces if the treatment period is a year or less. if it will take more than a year, i will wait until i have more money and get invisalign instead.

I had braces during high school, now here I am a lifetime later with crooked teeth again. I started the Invisalign process about a month ago. Next week i will be getting my attachments and first set of trays. For many cases, they bod material right onto the tooth to help torque them back into alignment. New and notable about Invisalign is you only have to wear each tray for 7 days now, cutting treatment time in half.

I am very much looking forward to the discomfort of my teeth shifting. I am going to have to beg my wife to be my nurse once a week now.

"Babe my mouth hurts."

Which uniform do I need to put on?

"Can you grab a mask too please"

What color (rolls eyes)

"I love you"

A while ago, I posted in this thread that I was considering to get my second round of braces--adult braces this time.

Well, meanwhile I got my braces fitted. I chose metal brackets for my top and lower teeth. They will have to stay on for approx. two years. I am still quite embarrassed by them at this point, but as I said below if I am in the right mood embarrassment is a turn on for me...

I've never had braces, but have wanted them since I was a teenager. I've been thinking lately about setting up a consultation with an orthodontist. Fixed metal brackets appeal to me from a fetish-indulging perspective for sure, but invisalign might be more practical from a real-life perspective... Hmm.

I had different kinds of braces for four or five years, starting when I was thirteen or fourteen. First I got an activator/block brace and headgear for about a year. Then I got metal brackets and for a while I had to combine them with the headgear at first. They certainly helped - they fixed my gigantic half an inch overbite, and my teeth are still as straight as ever!

I had fixed metal braces when I was 17 to 20 years old. They came with bands but gladly I did not have to wear headgear. I was quite embarrassed by them, in particular as I was quite old when I started my treatment, and having to wear fixed metal braces is not particularly what the girls are looking for in a guy at that age... I got removable hawley retainers afterwards which I was supposed to wear every night.

I still have them today. At some point, I actually got to like them, and the embarrassment that came with them...

@FeverishBen

is it possible for you to wear your old retainer yet, or doesn´t it fit anymore?

It still fits, @glutexo.

I had braces and a high-pull headgear with J-hooks at night when I was 14-15.

I still have my braces. I've had them since I was 14. I get them off soon, though. I hated them at first, especially with the nighttime headgear. But I'm used to them now. I've also had elastics with them.

I am currently wearing adult fixed braces with clear brackets at least. It's still quite embarrassing for me even more so as I don't really like the patient's role in medfet otherwise.

I am currently wearing adult fixed braces with clear brackets at least. It's still quite embarrassing for me even more so as I don't really like the patient's role in medfet otherwise.

Hi Dr Julia, and others. I'm one of those fortunate people - I guess - who has never had to wear braces on my teeth. But I do have a pronounced mouth fetish, so sometimes if I meet someone with braces, and get to know and like her/him, I ask that person to maybe show me their teeth and braces (which can give me a nice view of their entire mouth!).

Hmm. I have always had a gay side - plus my mouth fetish. I went to a large all-boys school. Once, I found in the school quadrangle an appointment card for one of the other boys, and it was with an orthodontist. (I had to ask Mum that night, 'What's an orthodontist?') I knew who the other boy was, but we weren't actually friends (I liked him from a distance!), and I never gave him back his appointment card. I think I kept the card. Just having it, and knowing that this other boy was an orthodontic patient, gave me a strange feeling.

- Ken

P.S. Dr Julia, try not to feel embarrassed by having to wear teeth braces! The clear brackets are practically invisible, aren't they, and they are almost fashionable these days!

I had such a fascination with orthodontics when I was younger. I’m not sure how old I was when it started, maybe 9, 10 years old. I would shape “retainers” out of bits of beeswax and wire. I was so excited to get braces in 7th or 8th grade. I got the metal kind and loved getting the colors changed and wearing colorful rubber bands when I needed them.

I didn’t have them for more than two years, and I think less time- my teeth moved quickly. I began spending a ridiculous amount of time brushing my teeth, or more precisely the braces because after a certain amount of time it began to feel impossible to get my mouth truly clean- it turned out there was a little decay under the bands in the back that I couldn’t reach and perhaps that was why I had that feeling. It went away as soon as I got the braces off (before graduating junior high). I received the ok to stop wearing my retainers during the day after my first day of high school. I was well over my orthodontics fascination by then and thankful to have straight, pretty teeth free of contraptions.

Had braces whem i was younger... now i do like to see them on adults. female adults.

i like the metal kind, which i had

I had braces when I was at school for 5 years, they gave me migraines and after all that my teeth are still crooked, I wish they had left well alone

I never had them and never wished I did but the right kind of braces on the right face can go together well to end up adding something extremely sexy to how some girls look.

I haven’t had braces, and can’t say I wish that I had. However, numerous families members have had them, ranging from just braces to including many appliances. They are something of interest to me, on others, though, not on myself.

I still have a removable retainer that gives me a lisp, so embarrassing...