



1st day of braces vs. 1st adjustment (7 weeks)
1st photo is the day I got braces, and the 2nd photo is today after getting my first adjustment. 3rd photo is the night before I got braces (ignore the dry lips I was on Accutane then😭), 4th photo is today when they took my wires off before they put new ones in.
Before anyone decides to tell me I didn’t need braces and that my teeth were already straight: respectfully, you are not me, you don’t have my teeth or my bite issues, and you are not my board-certified orthodontist. He wouldn’t put braces on a patient if he thought it was unnecessary. For context, I had braces for the first time (done by the same orthodontist) when I was 10 and got them off at 12. Since I was so young, I didn’t understand the importance of wearing my retainers. My teeth ended up shifting to the point where my bite wasn’t fitting together comfortably at all. It made it hard to chew and eat and it caused jaw pain sometimes. So at 21 I decided to get braces again!