All 4 years of high school. Got them on like the third day of grade 9 and didn’t have them taken out until a couple months after high school ended.

I had Invisalign for 3 years, my partner had braces for 5. We both agree that the pain was far worse in the beginning when they’re really wrenching your teeth into place, and then gets a lot better once they start doing the more precise movements, which take up a good chunk of the total time.

Like all medical procedures though, it can be different for everybody.

Two years, and I had to wear headgear. Not sure if that’s still a thing, but it was a big metal contraption that went around your whole head. The pain was unbearable and I had no social life from how weird it looked.

I never had braces.

It’s been a long time but I remember it being something like 18-24 months. Not a short ordeal.

genuinely the only time mine hurt to the point of not being able to eat was the first week. Other times it hurt a little but I was essentially fine.

oh but if theres a little bit of metal bar poking the back of your cheek make sure to take a trip over and get it trimmed down, your teeth shifted and got closer together leading to the metal bits extending too far out. I was under the belief that it was supposed to be like that and I just had to get used to it and it HURTTT

edit: oh and 2.5 years, got delayed a bit

A few years? When they say use the plastic things after, use them. My teeth are now back to how they were before braces.

I started in 2020 and am now closed to being done, but that might habe taken so long because i am an adult and my teeth were realy shit (got 8 teeth removed 4 of them the wisdom teeth just to make enought space). Sometimes it hurt but it was definitly worth it.

About two years at the start of high school. Ultimately worth it.

For like 20 years? I still have them, but hardly ever use them these days. Belts are just more convenient.