Survey: Disliked Wearing Braces

DISLIKED WEARING BRACES


The Questions

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.
(Multiple choices.)
 Less than a year
 A year
 A year and a half
 Two years
 Two and a half years.
 Three years.
 Over three years (How long?) 


2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
(Multiple choices.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Headgear
 Facemask
 Bite plate
 Sagittal Appliance
 Lip Bumper
 Tongue crib or rake
 Expander
 Herbst Appliance
 Frankel Appliance
 Bionator
 Nightguard
 Coil springs
 Retainer
 Anything else? 


3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.
(Multiple choices.)
 1 (I disliked wearing braces a little.)
 2
 3
 4
 5 (I totally hated wearing braces.)


4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?
(Multiple choices.)
 I always tried to hide my braces.
 Although I disliked people seeing my braces, I "grinned and bared" them.
 It was no bother to me whether people saw my braces or not.
 I smiled my tingrin, but tried not to be too obvious.
 I loved to show off my braces whenever I could.

8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 Yes. (Mention why.) 
 No. (Mention why.) 

9.Male or female?
Male

Female


Survey Taker 1

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.

 Three years.
 
2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Expander
 Retainer
 
3.You picked a survey about how you liked wearing braces. How much did you like wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.
 1 (I disliked wearing braces a little.)

4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

Made me feel self-conscious at times, but more than anything they were just an annoyance

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

Made me feel self-conscious at times, but more than anything they were just an annoyance

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

I actually liked how they looked - didn't make me feel any less self-conscious though!

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?

I smiled my tingrin, but tried not to be too obvious.
 
8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 Yes.
(Mention why.) I love my teeth now!
 
9.Male or female?
Male


Survey Taker 2

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.
 
 A year and a half
  
2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Tongue crib or rake
 Retainer
 
3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.

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4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

while I knew I needed them I was one of a few kids that had them. Braces wearers were routinely made fun of. I was mad that my big sister only had to wear removables and I needed both fixed upper & lower braces.

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

Looking different. Getting made fun of. Pain.

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

Just having straight teeth afterwards

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?
 
I always tried to hide my braces.

8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 
Yes. 

9.Male or female?
Male


Survey Taker 3

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.

 Two and a half years.

2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Expander
 Retainer
  
3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.
 
4
 
4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)


5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?


6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?


7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?
 
I always tried to hide my braces.
 
8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 
Yes. 
 
9.Male or female?
Male


Survey Taker 4

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.

Three years.
 
2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Herbst Appliance
 Retainer
 
3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.
 
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4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

They were painful and a hassle-the brackets would break and then I would have to schedule an appointment and spend a long time at the orthodontist office...

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

Herbst appliance. Ouch.

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

No, not particularly.

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?

 It was no bother to me whether people saw my braces or not.
 
8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 No.
(Mention why.) They were not as necessary as my mother insisted.
9.Male or female?
Female



Survey Taker 5

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.
  A year and a half
 
2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
  
3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.

 5 (I totally hated wearing braces.)

4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

Jusr did

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

Everything

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

No

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?

 I always tried to hide my braces.
 
8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 
Yes.
 
9.Male or female?

Male




Survey Taker 6

1.How long did you have to wear fixed braces? (i.e. brackets or bands, not removable appliances.) Give the closest answer.
 
 Over three years

2.Which of the following ortho appliances did you have? (Pick as many of the following as you had. You can make more than one choice.)
 Fixed Braces (Upper teeth)
 Fixed Braces (Lower teeth)
 Elastics
 Coil springs
 Retainer
  
3.You picked a survey about how you disliked wearing braces. How much did you dislike wearing braces? Answer on a scale from 1 to 5.
 
 5 (I totally hated wearing braces.)

4.Why did you dislike wearing braces as much as you did? (Why did you give the response in the previous question?)

they hurt and were an inconvenience 

5.What did you dislike most about wearing braces?

food getting stuck in them

6.Is there anything you liked about wearing braces? What?

no

7.How did you feel about people seeing your braces?

It was no bother to me whether people saw my braces or not.

8.Regardless of whether you liked or disliked wearing braces, if you had to do it again, would you have chosen to have braces anyway? (For example, to fix a dental problem?)
 
Yes. 
(Mention why.)  they fixed my teeth

9.Male or female?

Female

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