This is awesome. I am 20 barely getting mine on July 11, I was nervous since I'm older than the common age when you get braces, but this inspires me to be proud and patient.
Yeah, it depends on when your growth plates close, some dentists decide you should do it before they close because everything is still shifting around so it will hurt less, but others decide to have you wait until after because there is no chance of it getting undone, in a way
Not sure why the downvotes unless everybody thinks you were correcting the "was" and not the "are"
"His teeth WERE worse than mine" since he got them fixed they aren't worse any longer.
"His teeth WERE worse than mine" since he got them fixed they aren't worse any longer.