I'm thinking about getting white ceramic braces... should i do it?
I've been told that i need braces from my doctor, but i really don't want visible ones. i know i can get white or ceramic braces from the orthodontist...but at a cost.
Can anyone who has white braces help me to figure out if its worth it or not?
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i have ceramic braces on both my top and bottom teeth and i think it was worth it . it was $500 extra to get them . i can't see them when i take pictures . everyone says they turn yellow after a while but only if you don't brush your teeth as often as you should . i got mine in november and my braces look as white as the day i got them . i brush after every meal ( except when i eat at school ) and floss at night and my ortho. says they won't turn yellow if i continue this . or if you decide not to get ceramic braces, you can try invislign . it's like invisible braces but you have to change the trays you put in your mouth ( approximately ) every 2 weeks but you can take the trays out when you eat and brush you teeth . i think ceramic braces would be easier because you might forget to put the trays back in or even lose the trays if you had invisalign . good luck :)
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I've got both ceramic and metal - ceramic on top and metal on the bottom - I'm really happy with the ceramic, they're barely noticible (one person only just noticed I had them, three months later)! The only thing with them is you have to clean them a lot more than the metal ones, but this is a really small price to pay for such a big difference! the cost difference for me was negligible (about $200) so there wasn't too much of an incentive to not get them.
In photos it just looks like I have a retainer on, and you can't see the metal lowers at all, so that's not a problem.
Re: invisalign, I looked into this extensively and am so glad I chose to go with traditional braces. Invisalign would have cost twice as much and taken twice as long. (source: Yahoo! Answers)
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