I wore a retainer, then had braces then had to wear a post-braces retainer to keep the teeth in place. I fucking hate having shit in my mouth. Luckily this all ended years ago. I recently had my wison teeth removed. Hopefully my future will be orthodontics and oral surgery free!!
Oh. I just remembered. During the period I had Bracers I was struck in the mouth with a thrown baseball. It knocked out my front 4 top teeth and they were hanging out of my mouth by my braces. The bone that runs along the roof of you mouth broke and was sticking into my mouth, not to mention the damage down to my upper lip.
The guy in the emergency room said I was very lucky the teeth stayed attached to the braces because he could put them back in. He then proceeded to set the bone in my mouth and ram the teeth back through my already closing gums. I then had to bit down for 3 hours on gauze so that the gums would re-attach to my teeth. Worst thing evar. Seriously.