Damage done

4 Premolars extraction = RM80 each
Bonding = RM6500 (Pay RM2500 first)
2months inverval visit @ RM200 pervisit for the next 2 1/2 years


More damage


Cannot makan painful to bite using front teeth, even worse without 4 premolars in between molars, food all goes inside the wires between the lobang. and the freaking brackets like so sharp and abrassive causing ulcers all over the place.

The food is not chewed properly that will lead to indigestion. more acid secretion in stomach which cause gastric, burns and reflux.

Extra damage


Bought Philips Sonicare FlexCare+ HX6942/20 with UV sanitizer RM576!



The ultimate damage

My smile is uglier than before even with my ceramic braces. Looks like pursing my lips all the time (sorta jongang) or worst the mouth sometimes opens by itself and fly could comes in. How could I smile like this?

Wearing braces is not comfortable at all, you'll be moody which may lead to scolding people around you like your mom or your coworker or your cat or your girlfren unnecessarily loosing temper and maybe loosing your frens and could loose your job too.

The lowest self esteem probably not meeting new people and maybe no sex for the next 2 1/2 years.

This post has been edited by chokia: Oct 19 2013, 04:32 PM

LMAO, IKR. but that's what i felt especially getting the good teeth out. Now i feel a bit better after gettin laid 1st time with braces last Sunday.

EEeeew

Ok then on monday (yesterday) after having a Quacker oat for breakfast, i was rushing into a conference room for presentation without cleaning my mouth.

Some oat flacks settled on my lips while i was talking without me realized it.

Double Eeeew.

Jialat

My front teeth definitely painful when try to bite things (my braces are 11 days old only)

Yes upper and lower, infact the 4 premolars (2 up 2 down) also extracted in a week interval before the braces fixed.

So really difficult to eat with the four gaps with wire suspended in between like penang bridge.


lunch time really difficult to get soft food i.e porridge for a working person.

Wow what type of braces Dr. Ang puts on you and how long he predicted you have to wear them. The teeth picture look pretty complicated.

How much adventist charge for that? i heard they do all sort of cosmetic surgeries too (i.e belly tuck, fat removal, nose job, hair transplant etc)

I also dont know what type of braces that smilebay put on me until one day the wire came off from the last bracket after i accidentally bite a hard biscuit onto the penang bridge cable (you know the gap of extracted premolar)

Since i know smilebay closed at 5pm and it was 7pm that time it will be kinda hazard to just leave to wire protruding like that might poke my cheek flesh like thaipusam.

By looking at the the other end of the bracket to see how the wire was inserted as a reference, I took the needlenose plier and held the wire just put it back, then only I realized that the whole length wire is not fixed but movable inbetween the bracket.



No wonder the Dr charges me RM6500 and i dont have to visit him so often like every month but two months once instead in the period of 2 years and half.

This post has been edited by chokia: Nov 13 2013, 03:10 PM

If just rm3800 then it's quite cheap. or izzit that's the payment you made so far?

BTW thats not my teeth, i just want to show that type of braces the doctor did for me. i paid RM2500 initially. and RM200 per visit every two months.

I think mine is damon system. No tighten or rubber band needed. I'm pretty sceptical with the system to be honest. The wire is just running loose in between bracket. It's said that the wire will gently allow the teeth to move by themself to space out from the overlapped and space in to close the gap. Due to that the duration of getting them all aligned is shorter compare to the conventional braces. Hows that sound?

For a month now i've yet to see any movement except the wire moved out from the bracket few times already. LOL

not pay all lump sum.

only initial u pay 30 to 40% from overall cost, then monthly RM100 or two months once at RM200 per visit

I think these doctor just charge suka suka one, like if they have good credential, graduated from prestige university or using expensive equipment, or located in expensive area (i.e bangsar) or type of braces or even your age and status etc. These doctors are also businessmen.

Like Siti Nurhaliza is wearing the RM16K lingual/ incognito braces and you cant see it because it's behind her teeth



This post has been edited by chokia: Nov 24 2013, 03:03 PM

Im thinking the same way too (switch to other doctor after i see my teeth are acceptably aligned infact i saw few DIY youtube videos how to remove the braces using wire cutter) so i dont have to continue paying the instalment but then you already paid almost all, thats not really smart move especially only to find out that those teeth are still not aligned. These doctors are so smart in business (no wonder they earn 50K a month) so they will drag you years & years and ask you to pay more. Most people teeth will aligned within 6 months.

Case-in-point: I have overcrowded upper and lower. my below row already aligned within 2 months time and my upper overlapped is almost aligned now. (after 2 visits) but the doctor so pandai he extracted 4 of my premolars and i guess those 4 gaps will take years to close (maybe less). The doctor estimated 2 1/2 years which i have problem to believe by looking at the actual progress.

This post has been edited by chokia: Dec 26 2013, 10:44 AM

I cannot pronounce properly too, sometimes i can see my saliva splashes out of my mouth when speaking.

Ewww

But im glad my teeth are all aligned now only after 4 months no more overlapped, crowded or jutting out. Can smile now even with braces.

Wow RM700 so cheap

actually in 2-3 months wearing thick wire braces your overlapping teeth should be aligned. even for the gap to close but these doctors will prolong the time for years which i dont have idea why.

my teeth already aligned after 3 months but the doctor didnt want to proceed to close the extracted gaps instead just change the wire.

WTH is he doing is beyond me.