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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right.  It can affect your ability to chew and speak, and it can keep getting worse and then affects your happiness and social life.  It's not just for cosmetic purposes.[/quote]

With braces, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. I had them in my 20s and they were so painful. I got headaches all the time. I was supposed to wear rubber bands, especially at night, but I couldn't sleep with them on. I was in grad school at the time and I remember that during exams the combination of stress plus the pain from my braces was just exhausting.

And that's before even getting to how it impacts what you can eat and you have to be super careful when eating and you're always having to push food out of my braces with my tongue before I could talk or smile. Going out to dinner with other people was work.

I had them for two years and the orthodontist said he thought I needed another 18 months. I could do it. The day I got them off was so liberating.

My teeth are not perfect and I don't care. I might be willing to try Invisalign at some point to fix my incisors which are still turned. But I just don't care about my bite anymore. I don't think it was ever bad enough to justify 3.5 years of pain.[/quote]

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