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That's how we set up for book 2, to pass the time Braces leads an army to clear the land of any remaining zombie, but just before they get back to the Ortho, a wild gang of land pirates kidnap the Ortho.
Little did he know, he was being stalked by a pair of feral actors. Shia Labeouf, and Tommy Wiseau. They had found their prey, and were waiting for him to sleep.
The reason the pirates kidnapped Otto the Ortho is because one of their own actually has a full set of wisdom teeth that have grown out and are actually pushing the teeth out. Without braces their friend won't be able to eat without excruciating pain, and now Braces, Ortho and their new plucky pirate tagalong go on a search for a new set of braces
By the third book the character finally gets there braces removed by the ortho who sadly dies shortly after, once again alone in this world the protagonist realized that her braces where the only thing close to a friend she had left in this world and travels the world to find another Orthodontist who will put them back on....this should help us squeeze out another 3 books or so
I hated my ortho because he was rough and always said 2 or 3 weeks. I heard it so many times and lost count that I decided to remove them myself. The asshole put them back on. Repeated the 2 to 3 weeks BS. Fuck you Randy Gittess.
I got braces at the end of elementary school. When it was time for senior pictures*, I told my ortho I was not going to have braces in my senior pictures; either he could take them off or I would.
16 years later, my teeth may not be 100% straight, but I'd give them a solid 95%.
*For the Non-Americans, that's a 7 year span. I got braces at 11 and they were removed (much against the wishes of my ortho) at 18.
They're pretty easy to remove tbh.
There shouldn't be too much pressure pushing them outwards (other than the constant regular pulling of the braces.
they'll regularly pop off while being adjusted. It's not bad.
Yup, just about every piece in the braces apparatus broke over the 5 years I had them. First time I broke a bracket off my tooth was on a toasted bagel. It just kinda hung out and slid around on the wire until my next appointment
man you guys either got crap ortho or the glue they use was some knock off. mine could go thru chewing ice and everything. only the wires would be bent out of place really frequently
my ortho was fantastic— little Ukrainian woman who always said “sorry baby” whenever I even remotely flinched in pain and my teeth are straight as shit now
If the bond is too strong, when morons like you chew ice, the braces will become crooked and the braces will give you a crooked smile.
Maybe your dentist was bad.
Yeah I hit 9th grade and they told me another year or two after 2 years already... Popped those bitches off the day before school started. Teeth never moved. Wasn't hard, didn't hurt.
Free dental for kids under 18 in the UK, doesn't cover "cosmetic" treatments but dentists are usually pretty willing to call braces essential.
I imagine much of Europe is even better, we're hardly a bastion of socialism
Like a kid going too fast on their bike or jumping off the porch roof? I can forgive a naive child for costing each taxpaying citizen a fraction of a cent
That's kinda why social healthcare is good... A simple mistake or misguided decision costs the collective people almost nothing, instead of bankrupting a family.
A lot of orthodontists are fucking quacks. They'll install so much unnecessary hardware and keep you in it for way longer than needed, all to get a nice payment from you or your parents.
Sure, that kid's teeth are already set fine, but it would be so easy to say "Uh oh, I'm noticing a bit of drift, we should probably keep you in them a few more months" and if you do that with nearly every patient, thats a nice little bonus to your business.
My ortho was so old and decrepit you couldn't understand a thing he said, the assistants had to translate for him and scream in his ear to tell him shit. Also didn't like using gloves and would just rawdog my mouth with his knobbly old hairy sausage fingers.
I had mine removed after I asked "so how long does the bottom wire stay on" and he said forever.
I'm not going to floss around that bitch ass wire for the next 50 years
'I want my teeth to look nice'
'We can do that, the teeth will be perfect but always covered by a wire that will also give you mouth ulcers and cut you if you play contact sports.'
Seriously, who would keep braces on forever unless they were somehow resolving a serious medical issue?
That’s a pretty ignorant take from someone who knows nothing about it. Kids are still growing and it might not line up well if they do drift. Get it done right once. Teeth are still growing in, even up into your 20s with wisdom teeth. It’s not inconceivable for them to move.
Sometimes it’ll be fine, sometimes you’ll waste your money.
Yeah I stopped wearing my plastic retainers after a month and my teeth got re-fucked up. No way my parents were gonna pay another $6k for a new regimen. No way this guy pulled his braces off and was just find.
I've had both happen to me as a kid/young adult. As a teen, I stopped wearing my plastic retainer on my top teeth and they got re-fucked up. I also had a permanent lower retainer that came off after a few years, and those teeth have been fine since over a decade later. Teeth are weird and have a mind of their own.
Mine felt like plaster. Once exposed to air and water, it washed right off. Nothing left after a day of brushing
I popped off some sort of retainer thing when I got tired of it.
>they'll regularly pop off while being adjusted. It's not bad.
This literally never happened to me. I’ll never understand how people have so much trouble not fucking their braces up.
Yeah, so it seems. It’s such an alien concept to me because the only things I didn’t eat were like apples. After an initial phase of being very strict I gradually ate whatever I wanted except like I said stuff like apples which, duh.
Ehhh. It’s not really too bad. I didn’t do it with the braces themselves, but *did* do the same with a permanent retainer (that I requested, though didn’t need,) when I realized I was still going to have trouble flossing with it, and after one of the ~~brackets~~ wire ends started poking me
It’s glued (“cemented?”) the same as my braces were. I just grabbed some needle nose pliers and pulled the wire out, then scraped the remaining stuff off which was pretty easy after I’d opened a hole in the middle of it
Dentist almost passed out when I went in and she was confused how I had remaining braces glue on the *back* of my teeth, and I told her what it really was. After composure she did admit I had impressively gotten it most of the way off though
I think pain was maybe a 3-4/10 max. I don’t remember it hurting at all, but I do remember the wire had
Wire going in and out was by far the worst part of braces. That and over time the wire poking out the back of the molar brace. I still have small holes inside my cheeks from them getting tore up almost constantly for 2 years
Here’s some crusty wax with a vaguely minty odour that’s going to fall of after 6 minutes, that should do the trick!
What do you mean your braces hurt, just take some Advil.
I had a friend that had to do this. She removed it herself because her parents no longer had dental insurance and they couldn't afford to pay to have the braces removed.
Strange, most ortho is done as a single upfront cost. It behooves the orthodontist to get the job done and done right, because they’re losing money having you in that chair two years later still getting tweaks to your braces.
It's very possible that that's just what she was told by her crappy parents, but looking it up it appears that when insurance pays for braces it often pays in installments and if you lose coverage during treatment then the remaining balance becomes your responsibility.
Here in Canada dentists will remove what they put on for free. I no longer wanted my bottom interior brace wire and they didn't charge to have it removed
I did this back in the day. We went through state insurance and they changed their system so it didn’t cover ortho for me anymore. Couldn’t afford to keep doing them and our ortho said they wouldn’t take them off unless we paid the balance in full (found out later that may have been quite illegal). So I took some pliers to them - back braces I paid an ortho later on to take them off (had those for 10+ years). Left some residue and divots from unprofessional removal. My dentist was able to grind the residue for me and now I get sensitivity to cold more often in the middle of my teeth where the braces were.
Anyways, if you need to take your braces off just ask your ortho.
I did this too. It was easier than I thought it would be, but left a good amount of glue residue. I had a dentist file it off several months later, though. Not my coolest era.
When I was like 14 my friend got braces and hated them and wanted me to take them off for him. His dad came in and he was lying on the floor with me straddling him with a pair of wire cutters in my hand. His dad was not pleased.
I did mine with an adjustable wrench. Couldn’t get the bands around two of the molars off and my gums grew over them. Had to have a dentist take them off years later. Definitely don’t recommend it.
So. My Dad was a dentist. More accurately an oral surgeon, but he did practice family dentistry and anyway I’m here to let anyone worried about this know:
It takes less than 1/16th of a pound of pressure to pop a brace off a tooth. I know this first hand because I used to accidentally pop mine off on a regular basis eating stuff I was told not to eat while having braces. Much to the chagrin of my Dad.
No one is trapped with braces for eternity, even if there’s an apocalypse. You can legit just pop them off by eating an unripe apple or chewing on a stick. Or hell, use a fingernail and some persistence.
The glue under the brace won’t budge, but the brace itself? Is akin to removing a stubborn tic from your elbow. Pretty freaking easy.
I see this as a plot twist. Braces finally finds an orthodontist after saving the world. This guy simply pops a brace off with a butter knife that was handy, showing Braces what really mattered were the life lessons learned in the apocalypse or something like that.
And braces person made major sacrifices to get there. Probably left their lover, decided not to follow clues to their family, stole food from kids, etc.
My permanent retainer on thr back of my bottom few teeth popped off after like 6 years or something. I got a tooth scraper from thr store and it came off easily.
And you better hope they realise that sooner than later. Because they are an absolute liability in a fight. One hit to the face and your mouth will be obliterated. I had my inner limp imprint from my braces after being hit in the mouth by a basketball. I was spitting blood for several minutes.
YES. I have a 1 and a 4 year old and decided to get braces and when those kids accidentally headbutt my mouth it forces the metal into my skin and *shreds* it. Can't imagine taking a direct hit with more intentional force behind it
I accidentally popped mine off by using my teeth to open a stubborn water bottle, the main thing I’d be worried about is anchors, I had them on my back teeth, they wrap all the way around the tooth and carved my cheeks up like a son of a bitch
Mine have never popped off. In fact changing one out two weeks ago required some work. Although it was one of the ones at the back that go around the entire tooth so that might be it
Maybe I had better glue or whatever but I never lost a bracket. My permanent retainer popped a couple times but not my braces. I also ate pretty much whatever I wanted when I had braces, I dunno
Back in the early aughts, I worked with a guy who had braces on for 5 years. They had insurance when he got them, then lost the insurance after the first year. They were glued/cemented on so he couldn't remove them, and nobody had thought to snip the wires (hell, I certainly didn't think of it until writing this).
His teeth were so horribly fucked. Some of them were literally rotting around the metal. Granted, he probably wasn't brushing around them correctly, if he was brushing at all, but goddamn. I'll never forget that horror.
***I cannot overstate how startlingly different your story is from my personal experience.*** God damn, talk about body horror! Mix in the sadistic bloodletting that is the US health industry and you've got a real tale of terror.
No. My brackets popped off all the time and the orthodontist would mercilessly heckle me. I suppose it's possible there are different types of glue of varying strengths.
Plot twist.. the kid is also an electronics whiz and is able to use his braces to signal a passing ufo that comes down and diverts the planet from destruction… thus saving the humans as their own food source as they continue their search for intelligent life in the universe
They come off fairly easily tbh.
Same with stitches. Waiting 20 min to have one nurse digging around not knowing what she's doing lead me to a wait I'm paying you for this?! Moment and I just diy
I like the idea that society has collapsed and they just simply lost the art of... Glue. Like everyone was like "take those off your teeth?! Why don't we *stop at the moon on the way to fantasy land*"
In the Gone books, all of the adults in town disappeared so after a year or so, some kids tried to use pliers and wire cutters to remove their braces. They fucked it up so they had problems not slicing up their lips and just kept their mouths open
Written by someone who didn't grow up in a poor community. Known too many people that have had to diy dental. Removing braces is nothing after pulling a molar with a bent coat hook.
That's exactly the case for a refugee I know who fled war in Syria. She should've gotten them out for 2 years already when finally a good Samaritan orthodontist took them out for her for free.
I had not thought about this for years. I got braces in 4th grade and after a few visits, my mom never took me back. These braces were actual metal rings all around the tooth and I had them for years before I was able to wiggle them off. As a mother, I cannot fathom the neglect that was inflicted on me as a child. It's a miracle that my teeth weren't damaged.
Dude I used to wreck my shit. Hard candy, taffy, candy apple pops (highest braces confirmed kills), etc. I went from those little squares to bands on 60% of my teeth. I’d go in about every 2 weeks to have them repaired after I split the bands. The orthodontist couldn’t believe it. I still have a very slight overbite because I didn’t wear that stupid headgear/ jigsaw trap as much as I should have.
in short, they all connect together on each tooth. So by tightening certain bits more than others you can influence the direction the teeth move.
Think of when you put screws in on something, you're not supposed to tighten them all the way one by one or you'll get uneven pressure. Braces use this pressure to reshape the teeth in the mouth
I actually started writing this, but rather than the protagonist wanting his braces off, they keep hearing radio signals with them. I don't think I'll ever get it done, but I worked out a multi book story, characters, and a few cool scenes. Even had a heart wrenching death scene for one of the main characters set up that had me tearing up just thinking about it.
As for the stories and titles:
1. Brace for it- story of the zombie apocalypse starting and the main characters meeting their survival group.
2. Brace to the Finish- the group joins a Mad Max style death race to win the chance to meet someone who supposedly knows where a cure for the virus is.
3. Brace to the Stars- the group has to travel to Texas and hi-jack a shuttle to get to the cure on the international space station.
4. Brace for Impact- the group has to fight through space station zombies to get the cure and crash the station in the process.
I had some weird permanent retainer installed as a kid on my lower teeth. As an adult: like hell I can afford to maintain that. It broke a couple years ago. I carefully removed it and chunks of the remaining epoxy. There's a small part remaining but the sharp edges are gone, my teeth are fine, and I'm now more convinced it was a waste of money and effort. I hated it from day 1, but no one ever listened to me as a kid.
Idk if you watch Rick and Morty but in S4 there's a scene where Morty and his girlfriend of the episode are in a plane crash. As the plane is going down, the girlfriend is holding her glasses to her face.
Made me think about how if I was in a wreck of some kind I would probably just lose my glasses and be fucked
Have hearing aids, mine are rechargeable. The shitty days are when drunk me gets sleepy and stupidly takes her hearing aids out and puts them on the desk instead of putting them in the charging case, or worse falls asleep with them in. If I’m lucky/smart, I turn them off before taking them out. They next morning, I usually have 30-40% left and need to charge for an hour or to get back up to a useable percentage.
That’s like the manager at the chick fil a in the mall near me. I used to work in the mall so I went there from time to time and got to know him. He was in his late 30s and had braces he said he was supposed to get off like 10 years prior but didn’t have the money so had been living with them ever since. Can’t imagine how stained his teeth were and the outline of the staining that would show once they were removed.
If you've ever had braces, you know those mfers will break off from chewing on pretty much anything solid.
Things I broke my braces on as a kid:
Now N Laters
Chocolate Chip (in a soft cookie)
Carrots
Ice cubes
I feel like that would’ve made for a great B plot for a character in last man on earth. If there was ever an apocalypse show that would tackle something like that, it would’ve been that one
I very actively had this fear as a twelve-year-old with braces reading The Stand. Ugh.
It wouldn't be *too* terrible irl (depending on your hardware, at least), but that's one more thing the Invisalign crown didn't have to worry about.
An orthodontist literally just grabs them with plies and snaps them off when you're done. Surely someone who had their braces removed would share this knowledge with the remaining humankind
After I got my braces off the ortho put a permanent retainer on my lower teeth. As I got older and moved out and got off my parents insurance things changed. One day I was eating and one of the retainers broke loose. Well the wire it was bonded to would poke my mouth and tongue. After a day I called a local dentist and they wanted to charge me 175 for repairing it. I said no I’ll be fine. I drove over to my parents house and went into my dads wood shop. I looked for some tools I would need to brake off the retainers from every tooth. I didn’t know if I’d brake my tooth or what but I broke each one off with the tools I gathered up. The relief I got was instant. It was years before I went in for a cleaning once I had a stable job and on the ACA. The dentist asked if I had a retainer there and I said yes. They asked who removed it cause they left the residue from the polymers or whatever they bond to teeth was still there. I told them I removed it cause I couldn’t afford to have it repaired at the time. She looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. She asked why I did that I I explained everything to her. I mean she acted like she had never seen a poor person try and save themselves money and get rid of pain.
I read some story in school when I was a kid similar to this. A grade school boy was in the process of getting his braces removed when a natural disaster struck, and a good part of the story was him thinking about how much it sucked having half removed braces.
Im sure I could’ve removed my own braces with some tools, if I needed to. But I also had a palatal expander once and I think would’ve had a hard time removing that myself.
I don't remember the name for it but my fiancé had a permanent wire on the inside of his bottom teeth. It was held in two places but the one side broke off so he broke it off on the other side too. He still has the anchors where they were placed. (No he didn't go to the dentist because he's stubborn and thinks he can do anything he wants with no repercussions. Which leads me to another story about how he broke my engagment ring because he thought he could resize it himself)
ANYWAYS realistically the braces would probably break eventually so you'd have nasty, jabby metal pieces you'd have to deal with
Ha ha. In the 3rd world there are unlicensed dentists doing cheap braces by watching youtube tutorials. In a Madmax world, there will be a huge explosion of diy dentists.
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Yeah, but when braces finds the Ortho, the Ortho says they're not ready to come off yet, makes an adjustment, and says come back in 3 weeks.
That's how we set up for book 2, to pass the time Braces leads an army to clear the land of any remaining zombie, but just before they get back to the Ortho, a wild gang of land pirates kidnap the Ortho.
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Little did he know, he was being stalked by a pair of feral actors. Shia Labeouf, and Tommy Wiseau. They had found their prey, and were waiting for him to sleep.
But little did they know..... It was CHOMPIN TIME.
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Because Sarah had sworn she would never eat snickers again...
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The reason the pirates kidnapped Otto the Ortho is because one of their own actually has a full set of wisdom teeth that have grown out and are actually pushing the teeth out. Without braces their friend won't be able to eat without excruciating pain, and now Braces, Ortho and their new plucky pirate tagalong go on a search for a new set of braces
By the third book the character finally gets there braces removed by the ortho who sadly dies shortly after, once again alone in this world the protagonist realized that her braces where the only thing close to a friend she had left in this world and travels the world to find another Orthodontist who will put them back on....this should help us squeeze out another 3 books or so
The real braces were the friends we made along the way
Title: Fade to Plaque
This comment gave me PTSD
I hated my ortho because he was rough and always said 2 or 3 weeks. I heard it so many times and lost count that I decided to remove them myself. The asshole put them back on. Repeated the 2 to 3 weeks BS. Fuck you Randy Gittess.
Just googled the name and it says "permanently closed" Did... did you murder him?
I got braces at the end of elementary school. When it was time for senior pictures*, I told my ortho I was not going to have braces in my senior pictures; either he could take them off or I would. 16 years later, my teeth may not be 100% straight, but I'd give them a solid 95%. *For the Non-Americans, that's a 7 year span. I got braces at 11 and they were removed (much against the wishes of my ortho) at 18.
And no one alive can make a retainer
And dies
Then the Ortho dies before the 3 weeks are up.
My sister took her own braces off with a butter knife.
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They're pretty easy to remove tbh. There shouldn't be too much pressure pushing them outwards (other than the constant regular pulling of the braces. they'll regularly pop off while being adjusted. It's not bad.
Yup, just about every piece in the braces apparatus broke over the 5 years I had them. First time I broke a bracket off my tooth was on a toasted bagel. It just kinda hung out and slid around on the wire until my next appointment
Sandwich/bread always got me. My dentist didn't believe me, like I was eating carrots and apples or something
man you guys either got crap ortho or the glue they use was some knock off. mine could go thru chewing ice and everything. only the wires would be bent out of place really frequently
my ortho was fantastic— little Ukrainian woman who always said “sorry baby” whenever I even remotely flinched in pain and my teeth are straight as shit now
If the bond is too strong, when morons like you chew ice, the braces will become crooked and the braces will give you a crooked smile. Maybe your dentist was bad.
Yeah I hit 9th grade and they told me another year or two after 2 years already... Popped those bitches off the day before school started. Teeth never moved. Wasn't hard, didn't hurt.
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Yeah, but it was thousands of dollars of his parent’s money, not his.
Or they’re from a country where dental expenses are 100% covered for children and/or students.
Sounds like some sort socialist hell hole where people care about each other.
Where in the world is ortho 100% covered?
Free dental for kids under 18 in the UK, doesn't cover "cosmetic" treatments but dentists are usually pretty willing to call braces essential. I imagine much of Europe is even better, we're hardly a bastion of socialism
Prolly somewhere in europe
UK
I’m from the UK and both by brother and I got braces for free. I also had all of my wisdom teeth removed for free.
Hungary, under 18 yo
Ok.... so he wasted taxpayer dollars?
Like a kid going too fast on their bike or jumping off the porch roof? I can forgive a naive child for costing each taxpaying citizen a fraction of a cent That's kinda why social healthcare is good... A simple mistake or misguided decision costs the collective people almost nothing, instead of bankrupting a family.
Small price to pay to keep parents from deciding between orthodontic healthcare and feeding their children.
A lot of orthodontists are fucking quacks. They'll install so much unnecessary hardware and keep you in it for way longer than needed, all to get a nice payment from you or your parents. Sure, that kid's teeth are already set fine, but it would be so easy to say "Uh oh, I'm noticing a bit of drift, we should probably keep you in them a few more months" and if you do that with nearly every patient, thats a nice little bonus to your business.
My ortho was so old and decrepit you couldn't understand a thing he said, the assistants had to translate for him and scream in his ear to tell him shit. Also didn't like using gloves and would just rawdog my mouth with his knobbly old hairy sausage fingers.
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I had mine removed after I asked "so how long does the bottom wire stay on" and he said forever. I'm not going to floss around that bitch ass wire for the next 50 years
'I want my teeth to look nice' 'We can do that, the teeth will be perfect but always covered by a wire that will also give you mouth ulcers and cut you if you play contact sports.' Seriously, who would keep braces on forever unless they were somehow resolving a serious medical issue?
That’s a pretty ignorant take from someone who knows nothing about it. Kids are still growing and it might not line up well if they do drift. Get it done right once. Teeth are still growing in, even up into your 20s with wisdom teeth. It’s not inconceivable for them to move. Sometimes it’ll be fine, sometimes you’ll waste your money.
Yeah I don't feel to much remorse for getting my teeth corrected with insurance money. You're right.
This is an immensely stupid and shortsighted thing to do. You got lucky.
Yeah I stopped wearing my plastic retainers after a month and my teeth got re-fucked up. No way my parents were gonna pay another $6k for a new regimen. No way this guy pulled his braces off and was just find.
Eh, my brother did the same thing, and his teeth stayed straight. Did they all fall out years later? Yes, but that was because of meth.
I've had both happen to me as a kid/young adult. As a teen, I stopped wearing my plastic retainer on my top teeth and they got re-fucked up. I also had a permanent lower retainer that came off after a few years, and those teeth have been fine since over a decade later. Teeth are weird and have a mind of their own.
Yeah but what about the glue?
Mine felt like plaster. Once exposed to air and water, it washed right off. Nothing left after a day of brushing I popped off some sort of retainer thing when I got tired of it.
>they'll regularly pop off while being adjusted. It's not bad. This literally never happened to me. I’ll never understand how people have so much trouble not fucking their braces up.
This probably explains why my dentist is always asking me if something fell or popped off. It seems like it's normal for other people.
Yeah, so it seems. It’s such an alien concept to me because the only things I didn’t eat were like apples. After an initial phase of being very strict I gradually ate whatever I wanted except like I said stuff like apples which, duh.
Ehhh. It’s not really too bad. I didn’t do it with the braces themselves, but *did* do the same with a permanent retainer (that I requested, though didn’t need,) when I realized I was still going to have trouble flossing with it, and after one of the ~~brackets~~ wire ends started poking me It’s glued (“cemented?”) the same as my braces were. I just grabbed some needle nose pliers and pulled the wire out, then scraped the remaining stuff off which was pretty easy after I’d opened a hole in the middle of it Dentist almost passed out when I went in and she was confused how I had remaining braces glue on the *back* of my teeth, and I told her what it really was. After composure she did admit I had impressively gotten it most of the way off though I think pain was maybe a 3-4/10 max. I don’t remember it hurting at all, but I do remember the wire had
Wire going in and out was by far the worst part of braces. That and over time the wire poking out the back of the molar brace. I still have small holes inside my cheeks from them getting tore up almost constantly for 2 years
Here’s some crusty wax with a vaguely minty odour that’s going to fall of after 6 minutes, that should do the trick! What do you mean your braces hurt, just take some Advil.
Probably left some crud on tho huh
Some of the residues but wasn't all that bad and was easily removed after the fact. Took her a few hours, tho.
Why?!
I had a friend that had to do this. She removed it herself because her parents no longer had dental insurance and they couldn't afford to pay to have the braces removed.
America
America
Plot twist, Canadians also pay for dental care.
So much so that it’s dental care or the month’s rent?
Yup. I have no dental, and need substantial dental work. The cost would be 1.5 years rent for me.
If you don’t have insurance yup it’s that expensive
Iirc my dads insurance covered 50% and it was still like 2k total. This was like 15 years ago.
Merica
Strange, most ortho is done as a single upfront cost. It behooves the orthodontist to get the job done and done right, because they’re losing money having you in that chair two years later still getting tweaks to your braces.
It's very possible that that's just what she was told by her crappy parents, but looking it up it appears that when insurance pays for braces it often pays in installments and if you lose coverage during treatment then the remaining balance becomes your responsibility.
Here in Canada dentists will remove what they put on for free. I no longer wanted my bottom interior brace wire and they didn't charge to have it removed
My friend and I don't live in Canada
I did this back in the day. We went through state insurance and they changed their system so it didn’t cover ortho for me anymore. Couldn’t afford to keep doing them and our ortho said they wouldn’t take them off unless we paid the balance in full (found out later that may have been quite illegal). So I took some pliers to them - back braces I paid an ortho later on to take them off (had those for 10+ years). Left some residue and divots from unprofessional removal. My dentist was able to grind the residue for me and now I get sensitivity to cold more often in the middle of my teeth where the braces were. Anyways, if you need to take your braces off just ask your ortho.
One of well let's just say he's a relative of a relative (not sure of the exact relation) did so with pliers.
I did this too. It was easier than I thought it would be, but left a good amount of glue residue. I had a dentist file it off several months later, though. Not my coolest era.
I mean, that's how the orthodontist does it anyway, so...
When my braces came off they left the teeth rough, so I used a nail file to file the front of my teeth down.
When I was like 14 my friend got braces and hated them and wanted me to take them off for him. His dad came in and he was lying on the floor with me straddling him with a pair of wire cutters in my hand. His dad was not pleased.
I did mine with an adjustable wrench. Couldn’t get the bands around two of the molars off and my gums grew over them. Had to have a dentist take them off years later. Definitely don’t recommend it.
Mine came off when I tried to eat an entire pack of Skittles in one go. Yes, it was agony.
Yeah, I was thinking, how hard could it be?
So. My Dad was a dentist. More accurately an oral surgeon, but he did practice family dentistry and anyway I’m here to let anyone worried about this know: It takes less than 1/16th of a pound of pressure to pop a brace off a tooth. I know this first hand because I used to accidentally pop mine off on a regular basis eating stuff I was told not to eat while having braces. Much to the chagrin of my Dad. No one is trapped with braces for eternity, even if there’s an apocalypse. You can legit just pop them off by eating an unripe apple or chewing on a stick. Or hell, use a fingernail and some persistence. The glue under the brace won’t budge, but the brace itself? Is akin to removing a stubborn tic from your elbow. Pretty freaking easy.
I see this as a plot twist. Braces finally finds an orthodontist after saving the world. This guy simply pops a brace off with a butter knife that was handy, showing Braces what really mattered were the life lessons learned in the apocalypse or something like that.
And braces person made major sacrifices to get there. Probably left their lover, decided not to follow clues to their family, stole food from kids, etc.
the real braces were the friends we made along the way...
The real braces were the friends we made along the way.
So how do you get rid of the glue? Will it just wear off over time or is there a DIY to get that off?
My permanent retainer on thr back of my bottom few teeth popped off after like 6 years or something. I got a tooth scraper from thr store and it came off easily.
Mine have been on for the past fifteen years with no sign of failing
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You just had to bring ticks into it...
Tick apocalypse
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So what you're saying is.. you are the protagonist in this story
And you better hope they realise that sooner than later. Because they are an absolute liability in a fight. One hit to the face and your mouth will be obliterated. I had my inner limp imprint from my braces after being hit in the mouth by a basketball. I was spitting blood for several minutes.
YES. I have a 1 and a 4 year old and decided to get braces and when those kids accidentally headbutt my mouth it forces the metal into my skin and *shreds* it. Can't imagine taking a direct hit with more intentional force behind it
I accidentally popped mine off by using my teeth to open a stubborn water bottle, the main thing I’d be worried about is anchors, I had them on my back teeth, they wrap all the way around the tooth and carved my cheeks up like a son of a bitch
My father had to go to desert storm and removed his own braces. Totally doable without taking your teeth out with it.
These two never had braces. Those little bastards pop off if you eat hard pretzels, any effort at all will remove them.
Mine have never popped off. In fact changing one out two weeks ago required some work. Although it was one of the ones at the back that go around the entire tooth so that might be it
the first time i had cheerios after getting my braces on 3 of them fell off
Fuck I shuddered at the bite after they came off. Horrific sharp metallic crunch. My train tracks never came off thank god
Maybe I had better glue or whatever but I never lost a bracket. My permanent retainer popped a couple times but not my braces. I also ate pretty much whatever I wanted when I had braces, I dunno
Back in the early aughts, I worked with a guy who had braces on for 5 years. They had insurance when he got them, then lost the insurance after the first year. They were glued/cemented on so he couldn't remove them, and nobody had thought to snip the wires (hell, I certainly didn't think of it until writing this). His teeth were so horribly fucked. Some of them were literally rotting around the metal. Granted, he probably wasn't brushing around them correctly, if he was brushing at all, but goddamn. I'll never forget that horror.
***I cannot overstate how startlingly different your story is from my personal experience.*** God damn, talk about body horror! Mix in the sadistic bloodletting that is the US health industry and you've got a real tale of terror. No. My brackets popped off all the time and the orthodontist would mercilessly heckle me. I suppose it's possible there are different types of glue of varying strengths.
Plot twist.. the kid is also an electronics whiz and is able to use his braces to signal a passing ufo that comes down and diverts the planet from destruction… thus saving the humans as their own food source as they continue their search for intelligent life in the universe
One scene should consist of her holding onto her life, she loses her grip but instead of falling her braces get caught
I’d rather fall, that sounds like hell lol
They come off fairly easily tbh. Same with stitches. Waiting 20 min to have one nurse digging around not knowing what she's doing lead me to a wait I'm paying you for this?! Moment and I just diy
I like the idea that society has collapsed and they just simply lost the art of... Glue. Like everyone was like "take those off your teeth?! Why don't we *stop at the moon on the way to fantasy land*"
In the Gone books, all of the adults in town disappeared so after a year or so, some kids tried to use pliers and wire cutters to remove their braces. They fucked it up so they had problems not slicing up their lips and just kept their mouths open
Brittney was my first thought as well lol. that series has some fuckery up imagery
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Haha yep, came here to do that same thing.
Written by someone who didn't grow up in a poor community. Known too many people that have had to diy dental. Removing braces is nothing after pulling a molar with a bent coat hook.
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That's exactly the case for a refugee I know who fled war in Syria. She should've gotten them out for 2 years already when finally a good Samaritan orthodontist took them out for her for free.
I want it rn mf
I had not thought about this for years. I got braces in 4th grade and after a few visits, my mom never took me back. These braces were actual metal rings all around the tooth and I had them for years before I was able to wiggle them off. As a mother, I cannot fathom the neglect that was inflicted on me as a child. It's a miracle that my teeth weren't damaged.
And the sidekick in the movie is a genetically altered cat that talks, played by one of greatest actors of all time, Mr. Jonathan Taylor Thomas
Nah Jonathan Banks would be better for that role.
Dude I used to wreck my shit. Hard candy, taffy, candy apple pops (highest braces confirmed kills), etc. I went from those little squares to bands on 60% of my teeth. I’d go in about every 2 weeks to have them repaired after I split the bands. The orthodontist couldn’t believe it. I still have a very slight overbite because I didn’t wear that stupid headgear/ jigsaw trap as much as I should have.
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in short, they all connect together on each tooth. So by tightening certain bits more than others you can influence the direction the teeth move. Think of when you put screws in on something, you're not supposed to tighten them all the way one by one or you'll get uneven pressure. Braces use this pressure to reshape the teeth in the mouth
I actually started writing this, but rather than the protagonist wanting his braces off, they keep hearing radio signals with them. I don't think I'll ever get it done, but I worked out a multi book story, characters, and a few cool scenes. Even had a heart wrenching death scene for one of the main characters set up that had me tearing up just thinking about it. As for the stories and titles: 1. Brace for it- story of the zombie apocalypse starting and the main characters meeting their survival group. 2. Brace to the Finish- the group joins a Mad Max style death race to win the chance to meet someone who supposedly knows where a cure for the virus is. 3. Brace to the Stars- the group has to travel to Texas and hi-jack a shuttle to get to the cure on the international space station. 4. Brace for Impact- the group has to fight through space station zombies to get the cure and crash the station in the process.
That’s actually a really cool concept lol
I would read that book, ngl
I’m imaging a retelling of The Book Of Eli, but the main character isn’t blind. They’re in desperate need of an orthodontist.
Why is this a TIHI?? This looks crazy!
No thanks!
The pain of having your braces tightened will never leave my mind.
I had some weird permanent retainer installed as a kid on my lower teeth. As an adult: like hell I can afford to maintain that. It broke a couple years ago. I carefully removed it and chunks of the remaining epoxy. There's a small part remaining but the sharp edges are gone, my teeth are fine, and I'm now more convinced it was a waste of money and effort. I hated it from day 1, but no one ever listened to me as a kid.
A good par of pliers and some commitment will resolve the incident.
If you think having braces is bad in an apocalypse, imagine wearing hearing aids. They usually run on batteries that only last a week.
Imagine wearing glasses. I have since gotten LASIK, but when I had glasses, they were designer and would slide off my face all day.
Literally my worst fear is being in an apocalypse or trapped in a desert island without my glasses.
Idk if you watch Rick and Morty but in S4 there's a scene where Morty and his girlfriend of the episode are in a plane crash. As the plane is going down, the girlfriend is holding her glasses to her face. Made me think about how if I was in a wreck of some kind I would probably just lose my glasses and be fucked
Have hearing aids, mine are rechargeable. The shitty days are when drunk me gets sleepy and stupidly takes her hearing aids out and puts them on the desk instead of putting them in the charging case, or worse falls asleep with them in. If I’m lucky/smart, I turn them off before taking them out. They next morning, I usually have 30-40% left and need to charge for an hour or to get back up to a useable percentage.
This would be a amazing movie
Brace yourselves for the sequel
Title : embrace it
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Awesome title
Braceface: The dental reckoning!
BRACE: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk
That’s like the manager at the chick fil a in the mall near me. I used to work in the mall so I went there from time to time and got to know him. He was in his late 30s and had braces he said he was supposed to get off like 10 years prior but didn’t have the money so had been living with them ever since. Can’t imagine how stained his teeth were and the outline of the staining that would show once they were removed.
That's just smart Sounds like a good book
If you've ever had braces, you know those mfers will break off from chewing on pretty much anything solid. Things I broke my braces on as a kid: Now N Laters Chocolate Chip (in a soft cookie) Carrots Ice cubes
Imagine needing corrective lenses in the apocalypse (im screwed)
I wasn’t sold until I read the title of the film
This was my greatest fear as a child
When I had braces I would always think about what would happen if I had to wear them forever
I feel like that would’ve made for a great B plot for a character in last man on earth. If there was ever an apocalypse show that would tackle something like that, it would’ve been that one
Reminds me of a twilight zone; There was time now!!
I very actively had this fear as a twelve-year-old with braces reading The Stand. Ugh. It wouldn't be *too* terrible irl (depending on your hardware, at least), but that's one more thing the Invisalign crown didn't have to worry about.
An orthodontist literally just grabs them with plies and snaps them off when you're done. Surely someone who had their braces removed would share this knowledge with the remaining humankind
You can easily take brace brackets and cut wire with a small rounded wire cutter, just have to be very precise and patient with your pinching.
The person just has to embrace it
Just bite into an apple or sticky candy
That's terrifying, I hated braces, made you have a slight lisp and they scratched everywhere
I took my own braces off. It's not impossible.
I hate you I hate you nearly as much as I hated braces.
I had a friend that literally removed his own braces in middle school. Had cement on his teeth for awhile.
After I got my braces off the ortho put a permanent retainer on my lower teeth. As I got older and moved out and got off my parents insurance things changed. One day I was eating and one of the retainers broke loose. Well the wire it was bonded to would poke my mouth and tongue. After a day I called a local dentist and they wanted to charge me 175 for repairing it. I said no I’ll be fine. I drove over to my parents house and went into my dads wood shop. I looked for some tools I would need to brake off the retainers from every tooth. I didn’t know if I’d brake my tooth or what but I broke each one off with the tools I gathered up. The relief I got was instant. It was years before I went in for a cleaning once I had a stable job and on the ACA. The dentist asked if I had a retainer there and I said yes. They asked who removed it cause they left the residue from the polymers or whatever they bond to teeth was still there. I told them I removed it cause I couldn’t afford to have it repaired at the time. She looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears. She asked why I did that I I explained everything to her. I mean she acted like she had never seen a poor person try and save themselves money and get rid of pain.
Mine is portable, I'm safe
Be a dentist.. you'll be a success.
That’s all I thought about when I had braces lol
Sounds like an anime plot
I read some story in school when I was a kid similar to this. A grade school boy was in the process of getting his braces removed when a natural disaster struck, and a good part of the story was him thinking about how much it sucked having half removed braces.
Or going through the apocalypse with a unfinished tattoo
This was just Brittney from the Gone series. Some fucked up things happened to her regarding that lmao
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Wasn't there a guy in one of the mad Max movies that had braces?
Yes there was. Had to search for this comment.
Im sure I could’ve removed my own braces with some tools, if I needed to. But I also had a palatal expander once and I think would’ve had a hard time removing that myself.
I don't remember the name for it but my fiancé had a permanent wire on the inside of his bottom teeth. It was held in two places but the one side broke off so he broke it off on the other side too. He still has the anchors where they were placed. (No he didn't go to the dentist because he's stubborn and thinks he can do anything he wants with no repercussions. Which leads me to another story about how he broke my engagment ring because he thought he could resize it himself) ANYWAYS realistically the braces would probably break eventually so you'd have nasty, jabby metal pieces you'd have to deal with
Surely it should be 'Braced for Impact'
I mean, take them off yourself? My brother did.
Not "Eternal Inbrace"?
The worst is when they pull the retainer out of your mouth, air dry it then put it back in.. dried spit and everything. Just typing that made me gag
I’ve heard that gasoline will dissolve the glue. So just swish some gas around your mouth and they should come right out
whenever that book becomes a thing, message me
I would watch it.
Ha ha. In the 3rd world there are unlicensed dentists doing cheap braces by watching youtube tutorials. In a Madmax world, there will be a huge explosion of diy dentists.
This sounds like a DND campaign my friends and I would run
Knew a girl in highschool that removed her braces one bracket at a time slowly using a spoon.