One more thing. As I've been telling my friends and colleagues about my adventures with braces over the last year and a half, I've also been strongly urging them that if they have any sons or daughters whose dentist suggest orthodontics treatment, please for their sake do not wait. The financial cost is generally less for kids and the roots and jawbones are more malleable and quicker to heal which makes everything physically easier to complete.
I desperately wish now that my parents had opted for orthodontia for me. There's a good chance I could have kept my teeth if I had been treated at a much younger age. At this rate, I'm just hoping to be done with this mess by the time I hit 40.
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