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Originally posted by AOIIalum
kateshort, were you dealing with a maloclussion also? Surgery was suggested in our case, but since he's still growing (almost 14 years old) we decided to not go that route. He's had the expander, head gear, spacers, upper and lower bands, etc before now...and now the braces. Ugh.
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Heh... I thought I'd written that part! Yeah, I had an underbite or "bulldog" bite. I had two upper and two lower pre-molars removed while I was in braces, because I had a lot of teeth in a small mouth. By the beginning of my junior year, I could clench my back molars and my front teeth wouldn't be touching-- in fact, I could stick my tongue out with my back teeth clenched-- and if I bit into a salami and cheese sandwich the bread and maybe the cheese would be eaten, but the salami would still be sitting there. It ended up being a medical/health thing (due to the slowly increasing inability to eat easily), as well as a figure thing.
I'm PM'ing you with the surgery details.
We also were hoping to avoid surgery and waiting for me to stop growing. Feh.