Do you wish your parents put you in braces when you were a kid?

Question

Do you wish your parents put you in braces when you were a kid?

Answer 1

Yes, I am in the same boat as the previous post.  Oldest, not enough money for me but my younger three siblings all got them.  I still need them now and can't afford it with everything else (house, kids, family, gas, etc).  Ugh.

Answer 2

both me and my brother both have straight teeth yet our neighbour had braces and we both wanted to be like him , we even did the thing of un bending a paper clip to shape around our teeth to pretend we had a brace lol !!

Answer 3

Yes, my teeth could be straighter.  I love your teeth Jen.

Answer 4

I do wish my parents put me in braces.  It is not that my teeth are awful but the front 2 are not perfectly aligned like I would like them to be.  I'm actually going for a consultation to find out if it would help to have braces now.  In my opinion, it is never too late to make improvements.

Great question!

Answer 5

YES, I DO. IM THE OLDEST OF 5 KIDS, SO I WAS RAISED ALOT WORSE THAN THE SIBLINGS...

MY MOM WAS 15 WHEN SHE HAD ME, AND WE WERE POOR! I NEVER GOT BRACES, NICE CLOTHES, SHOES, NOTHING!!!

NOW, MY MOM HAS 4 OTHER KIDS...THEY HAVE IT ALL, BRACES, NAME BRAND CLOTHES, NICE SHOES, CARS...YOU NAME IT, THEY GOT IT!

YES, YOU CAN SAY IM STILL "SORE" OVER THIS SITUATION...AND I AM. MY MOM AND STEP DAD HAVE MORE MONEY THAN THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH...AND BEING THAT SHE WAS UNABLE TO PUT ME IN BRACES, THAT I NEEDED BACK THEN, AND STILL NEED TODAY...THAT SHE SHOULOD OFFER TO ATLEAST HELP ME OUT... OFFER TO PAY HALF OR SOMETHING.

ANYWAYS...

JUST WANTED TO VENT...

TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION... YES, I WISH MY MOM HAD GOTTEN ME BRACES!

Answer 6

yes. i'm still in my teens, but i wish they had considered braces when i was younger, it would be less embarassing, and would take less time to straighten the teeth.

i'm considering getting braces soon though, but i wish i had it done earlier :(

Answer 7

When I was younger I did (high school age-ish), but now that I'm older, I realize my teeth give me character.  No one else looks like me.  Since I've become a parent, I've struggled with this; my daughter sucked her fingers until she was 5.  BUT the way I see it is: braces are basically a cosmetic thing, not at all necessary, and if my daughter gets older and chooses to have braces, she can still have them.