yes yes... you are true, i place my appointment for 3 years before they called me up to start doing the teeth. Place at form 1 (initially i never know what the heck is this and i just follow my coursin sister to place the appointment.) They only started to call me when i was on form 4. I think that's why it costed me RM500, or 300 only. Wait for 3 years long.

Yup, government hospitals will take an insanely long time. Also depends whether they consider your case "medically interesting". That was what i got when i asked around at UMMC. Private practitioners will charge you anything from 3k to 5k++. Depends on the severity of the case and the orthodontist in question. More experienced ones will be able to charge higher, since you're paying for him not to screw up your teeth. Good idea not to skimp on this, since it's going to be for a lifetime

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This post has been edited by different solutions: Sep 29 2006, 02:22 AM

all i can say about the orthodontist treatment is "pain". No joking and it is freaking pain for the first time wear the bracelet the first week, i was not able to eat a tofu either for the first time. And if you accidentally bite your own lips, the inner skin of your lips will be wide open up like cutting through by meat blender. I still the remember the taste of blood and the amount of blood coming out of my mouth.

Is it because the braces had re-aligned your teeth, that you had forgotten the actual positions of them?

wear braces very pain one wooo >"< eat oso susah.. damn.. lucky i have good teeth

dracula well i bite my lips sometimes.. but.. usually not many blood one wo.. swt.. u say until so serious @@"

u know maybank its the same row... the name of the dentist is PJ orthodontist specialist ... mine is only rm 3800 .. and i paid through instalment ....

Where got so "Pain" mine is ok... its only for the 1st week.. the rest of the time is just normal no pain at all.. don go n scare them la!!!

whoa...u all say until i dun feel like doin anymore...
-__-"

you a girl?

as far as i know, first day i couldnt give a damn about the pain eat every damn thing. even after tightening still..ok. so in my whole 3 years of wearing braces i eat everything, resulting to a few extra trips to repair it. you cant eat toufu? damn must be serious or you need to start being more pain tolerant.

the only irritating part is when the braces accidently cuts you, from sports or what soo ever. it hurts like mad for a while but the latter blood taste in your mouth really sucks. but never like the way you claim to be wei, most even after a sharp elbow to the jaw i get a swollen lip for a couple of days and well minor bleeding.

Anyone here had experience doing braces in their late 20s? Very very painful?

My front teeth abit of of position and now I fully regret not doing braces in my teenage time.

yea, anyone know how much it cost,
i wish to wear braces too
as for my problem, the upper teeth are nice
but my lower teeth, it's kindda messy, it like some going too front,
it really spoilt my "smile" hehhehe

normally how much, are they gonna accept if i just wanna do my lower part of teeth??

Hahaha, can't help but laugh at all the posts . . .

Anyways . . . I'm 28F and I've been wearing braces for exactly 6 months and 2 days (Yes, I keep count).

I'm getting mine done in Taman Tun. The place is called Sarah Orthodontic and its somewhere between Pizza Hut and Bank Islam (or near Mohsin if you are familiar with TTDI). Very friendly people there and IMHO very experienced too.

Price? RM 4000 for metal braces or RM 6000 for ceramic ones. You pay 50% up front and the rest in 10 months installments. You also have to pay additional RM300 in the beginning for the xrays and they also make mouldings of your teeth. If you only want to do one row of teeth then its half of the overall price (makes perfect sense right?).

I heard from a friend of a friend of a friend who has a cousin who did her braces at UH and she had to wait 2 years! No thank you, I rather pay than wait 2 years.

And here is my experience as an "older" person wearing braces - its not that bad and its hardly painful at all. Sure, it takes some time getting used to and yes my teeth gets a bit sore after every adjustment, but after a while I don't even think about it anymore.

Why am I wearing braces at this age? I'm getting married next year and my future husband has got BEAUTIFUL teeth!!! But now he doesn't want to kiss me anymore and he keeps calling me metal mouth!!

This post has been edited by epep: Oct 1 2006, 04:33 PM

Hi. I did mine in 1995 (during my 6th form days) in SS2, besides Affin Finance. Its Dr Low Teong Ortho. Very senior and very good. My 2 front teeth then was almost 45deg outwards Cant even eat "wat-kai"! Sau-Nga-Chai I was. Now, handsome already..and my frens then were surprise to see me change so much!

And at my age then, he still manage to perfect my teeth
Took me about 3 years to have a 90% perfect look.

Dont worry abt the money. Each time you go, will charge you that amount of dental charges, not RM2 to RM3k upfront.

First visit, you will need to do xray. He does it for you also.
Then do a mould and make recoomendations
Then, need to extract teeth that blocks yr way. (I had 2 nice teeth taken!)
Then abt once a month need to see him, spend about RM50 to RM200, depending on what he did la. Most of the time he just tighten the bracelet a bit, so cost abt RM35+-
He also keeps your teeth clean and white!

One word of caution, this doctor has a nasty temper. Well known among other doctors...hehe..but besides his temperament, he is dem good!

Each time my braces got tightened, at nite sure pain as you feel the tension in yr teeth. Few days later only gone.
But the most irritating thing is, sometimes there this piece of wire thats scraping yr mouth, can cause ulser man.
Besides, never eat noodles or foods that can twirl around yr braces. this includes chewing gum!

im thinking of doing there too bcoz its my mom's friend own that place.

you dont feel the pain? That's why you need to wear 3 years, mine done in 1.5 years. Imagine that you accidentally bite your lower inner lips and you lips get stuck and mix together with the bracelet and let the bracelet scar there. LOL!

wah..... dare you eat the chewing gum with the bracelet on....

Seriously, i am not to scare people about the bracelet with the pain and injure thingy. It will worth it in the end when the moment the bracelet taken out, you will have the most beautiful smile even.

My teeth too damn straight until most of the time people think i wear fake teeth. *sweat* Sorry man, my teeth are straight, strong and shining bright