Personal Real Braces Story: "no negatives just all positives"

I've been collecting true personal accounts of braces experiences in the Tell Your Braces Story survey. Thank you for all who have contributed their story. I now have enough to start posting. This account is from one of my readers, jsrjay, who tells about his braces experiences as a kid and an adult.

Have You ever had braces? Yes 

BEST AND WORST: What is the best thing about wearing braces? What is the worst thing about wearing braces? 

The best thing is obviously the final outcome of straight teeth, the worst is the fact of having metal attached to your teeth. From a braces fascination point of view though there are no negatives just all positives.

FIRST REACTIONS: What first reactions to first seeing someone in braces have you experienced? (You could be the one in braces, the one who reacted, or a bystander.) 

I was about 9yrs old when a lad from my class came in late to school one day, he came in wearing braces, this was my 1st time seeing braces and I just thought they looked amazing, I remember all the kids asking him about them, where I just sat admiring what I saw.

MOST INTENSE TREATMENT: What is the most intense braces treatment you have seen? (Intensity could involve amount of metal, use of unique appliances, length of treatment, etc.) 

From my own treatment as a kid I had my upper fangs were very pointy and stuck out like a vampire for that reason the brackets on them teeth would always snap off, so one day when I went in my ortho placed some like metal sheets on the upper part of my fangs and also the lower part this would then keep the brackets in place he did this to both my upper fangs, so it looked like both my upper fangs were just sheer metal no white off the tooth could be seen.as

COOL BRACES EXPERIENCE: Have you had any cool, funny, interesting, or memorable experience involving your braces? What was it? 

As an adult when I got braces again I would deliberately break brackets just so I could go back to the ortho just see what would happen and see other brace wearers in the office.

ADVICE FOR OTHER BRACES WEARERS: What advice would you give to someone just getting braces, or thinking about getting braces? 

GET THEM you wont regret it