ive been through so much shit with these braces. I had eveyrthing you name it, hooks, springs, buttons, elastics, some gold hook shit, spacers, arch wires.... plus they removed my whole tp jaw and now i have screws and mesh in the top jaw behind the bone itself... couldnt eat for two months and felt like i was gonna die arg it was very shitty so im very happy its finally going to come to an end