<div class="quote_poster">Carter Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'm going to get braces in like a few months. Can someone rate the pain on a scale of 1-10? 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.</div>
Once you get em you'll hate em like sheez, but in about 3m months you'll get used to em. When you get em at first, like the first 3 days for you with braces will be like hell. It'll hurt if you eat bread. My best suggestion, eat noodles for 3 days for breakfast, dinner, and lunch and also try some ice cream. The first time you get them tightened they hurt reeeeeallll bad. Even when brushing your teeth'll hurt. But like I said, you'll get used to them. The worst part I think having braces is getting hit in the mouth with them. Like when playing basketball, I once got hit with a bball, and next thing you know, blood all over my shirt. Even if someone barely hits you in the mouth your metal part of you bracket (the thing on your teeth) your lips/gums will bleed. Also I hate the wire, if the dentist dont cut it out all the way, you can get poked with the thing in your gums. Also, when you get braces keep a little wax with you, and put it on you wires, which will prevent the wire from poking your gums. Its a lot of things to do in the 2 years you have braces. And you will have to visit your dentist each month to get them tightened which also sucks. You will have to brush a little longer than usual and you have to keep care of your braces like not get them messed or something, but you know what? Its all worth it at the end. The best part is getting them off. But all this work for braces is all worth it. I would give having braces a 5, since it is gay to have them and take care of everything all perfect, but also they help your teeth a lot. Also, you will get a retainer after you get your braces off basically to keep them straight, for like 3 months after you get them off, you will have to wear the retainer 24/7 all night all day every day (except when eating/brushing your teeth), and after the 3 months, you will only wear the retainer at night only till you're an adult. But all this hard work and all the taking care of braces and retainer will help when you get older because braces really help.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I had braces, and then I had the retainer, but my dentist told me I only had to wear it at night for like another 6 months, which I did, but now my front tooth has come back out a little bit. I'm just gonna go back and get cosmetic work done, that way I dont have to worry about wearing retainers and crap for the rest of my life.</div>
You know what sucks? Wearing that damn retainer. I have to wear it every night till I turn 20. Thats 5 years, and if I loose it, I have to pay $300 for it. Thats bs man.
