The first inconvenience.

I realize that the majority of people who wear braces are teenagers and they don't mind interrupting their day for an appointment because most of them like any excuse to get out of school. Study hall? Let's cut class! Spanish? I want outta that one!

Well you don't get those luxuries as an adult. My ortho's office is between my home and work, but it's still about 30 minutes away from work, depending on the weather and the traffic. I have to make my appointments for the first or the last slot of the day.

I didn't mind that the initial bonding took as long as it did because my hope was that I would not have to come back for maybe two months. That would be a nice break in my work schedule where I feel like I'm always coming in late because of different appointments.

Well I was brushing my teeth the first night and a bracket came loose. It's still attached because of the archwire but it's clearly not helping the tooth to make any progress. Thankfully, it's not painful and no one would notice. But now I'm irritated that I have to go back for another appointment! Next week! And I already have a dentist and a doctor's appointment that week. So irritating.

Plus I don't think they can pop the archwire off, re-bond the bracket and pop the wire back in very quickly. This is because of that stupid small tooth that needed extra wires wrapped around it. They would have to be unwrapped at the beginning to take the wire out, and then re-wrapped at the end. Remember that was the one portion of the entire process that added to the length of time I was in the office.