The first official orthodontic case I did. As in on an actual patient rather than just forcing it upon family members. 
Now it has taken a while, mainly because we used an inappropriate appliance at the start really. This patient was really against the idea of a fixed appliance. I was unsure and urged her to consider it to be on the safe side but she really didn’t want to go down that route. So we started with a removable appliance. And it did get things moving, but only so far.
After a while of persevering it became apparent that the teeth weren’t going to fully straighten, or if they did it was going to take forever! At this point the patient was happy to give the fixed appliance a whirl. As we had already achieved some movement we were able to skip the initial wire and once the fixed appliance was on things came into line a treat.
But a lovely result in the end and a lesson learnt for me of just how important appliance choice is!
the manchester face clinic 