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Subject: Re: off to college

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MJ

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Date Posted: 16:36:17 07/19/04 Mon
In reply to: angelique 's message, "Re: off to college" on 19:56:39 07/18/04 Sun

Hey cool, I got braces my sophomore year too. Between semesters in the middle of the year though, and without telling anyone first! Well, some friends knew I was thinking about it but right before Christmas, yeah I was sort of crazy, its a long story. They were supposed to be almost off by now (18 months) and I really didn't want to be wearing braces my senior year but even my ortho calls my teeth stubborn now so I just desperately hope I will get them off before I graduate.

Anyway, appointments while I'm in school haven't been a problem, and the ortho even works with me so I don't get surprises or painful adjustments right before big exams and stuff. (This can be important!) He has a few other student patients so he is used to it. I am a long way from home and usually stay on campus during breaks so changing orthos hasn't been much of an issue though our family ortho back home was just THRILLED to see me in braces when he saw me for a broken bracket emergency last year. It isn't a lot of fun all the time but it works out.

MJ

>I got my braces on two months before I started my
>sophomore year of college (great timing, huh) I go to
>school about 5 hours away and i had class on fri till
>like 3, but my ortho has saturday appts every once in
>a while, so i just get scheduled in for those when i'm
>not home for break. It takes some juggling but its
>doable!
>
>>Hi! I just finished reading the moving section. One
>>thing I was wondering however, is how do college aged
>>kids who go away handle this? There'll be times when
>>I'm home for a long time(summer and winter break) and
>>I'll obviously need adjustments during those time
>>periods. Another thing is, I've heard that a lot of
>>orthos won't touch another ortho's work..why is that?
>>Also, since my campus won't allow freshman to have
>>cars, I'm trying to figure out how I'd get to the
>>ortho(I'm guessing by taxi). My current ortho said
>>he'd talk to the new ortho, and told me I'd probably
>>have to be extra carefull not to break anything and
>>keep the braces clean since I'd most likely be going
>>in less often.

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