The average time a teen must wear teeth-straightening braces means little when you find yourself at the high end of the averaging spectrum. After all, to get an average for anything, you have to add up all the figures and divide by the number of participants.
However, if your teenage son or daughter is about facing bracing, you might want to let him or her know that wearing time is probably going to be slightly under two years.
This may not be as helpful as it would be if you were talking to a fellow adult, because time seems to pass much more slowly for kids than for adults your teen may whine a bit about it. To deal effectively with this, stay calm and just keep putting forth the truth that when the teeth are straightened, they’ll be straight for a lifetime.
Your teen knows as well as you do that he or she needs straighter teeth. Braces are a good way to reinforce the character-building lesson that good things take time as well as the perfect way to straighten teeth.
