"Tell Your Braces Story" Survey

QUESTIONS 

(all in essay format)

Have You ever had braces? 

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

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.)

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.)

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

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

RESPONSE #1

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

RESPONSE #2

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 worst things are definitely, when there was food in the Braces and you couldn't get it out. Best thing is, that you could see your teeth getting straighter.

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.) 

My small nephew allways wanted to touch them, when we visited my uncles family

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.) 

I don't know, may be, when I had to wear elastics or actually the first days with them

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

the one with my nephew.

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

its not as bad, as you think it is and you will get used to it.

RESPONSE #3

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 about wearing Braces is, that you can see your teeth getting straight. The worst thing is eating with them or smiling an not knowing, wether there might be still food in them.

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.) 

"Foureyes has got a metalmouth" said one of the Boys in my Class, when I had my Braces new. (I was wearing Glasses)

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.) 

Don't know. The Most intense about Braces is, when they are new and you are not yet used to them.

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

When I was at the Summer Camp in sixth grade, I was in love with a Boy (wich was of course a secret. But when we talked, he confessed, that he is getting Braces too and asked me a lot about how it is to wear them. When we met again he had already his Braces on and he was so cute with them. I wanted to kiss him imidiately. And we did not get stuck with them (as in bad movies).

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

Never try to hide them, because sooner or later, people will anyway realise, that you have them on.

RESPONSE #4

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? 

best - fixing your teeth.

worst - the pressure.

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.)

inquisitive.

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.)

6 years, a friend.

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

being the first to get braces in school and seeing all my friends get the after me.

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

do it. its not always fun but worth it.   

RESPONSE #5

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? 

Best: seeing my teeth straighten

Worst: flossing

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.) 

Smiling widely at them to reveal my own braces

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.) 

A friend had her braces for five years (roughly age 26-31) with a palatal expander, lots of elastics, and orthognathic surgery

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

I work in a group of people with several brace-faces currently. It's fun to compare notes about our braces

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

Smile and have fun!