I had 4 teeth extracted. I had orthodontic treatment in Suwon. Started at 25~finished at 27. The director had been practicing in one place for a long time, so I didn’t have many doubts. It was an ambiguous case, so we said we’d start first and then decide whether to do non-extraction or extraction treatment.
After all my teeth were aligned, they looked too protruded, so I thought extracting would be better and switched to extraction treatment. It turns out you can’t make it go in or come out exactly as much as you want haha I had to choose between a protruding mouth and a sunken-in mouth.. My lifelong concerns, the snaggletooth and bunny teeth, were corrected, but maybe you lose as much as you gain; there was lip curling inward and hollowing beside the nose haha The hollowing beside the nose is very noticeable. It went in more than I expected. And one vertical wrinkle formed above the corner of my lip. Sigh... it looks like a nasolabial fold.
After I got it done, the reactions around me weren’t like, “Wow~ you did great.” More like, “Your teeth got straightened~~” I guess when you get orthodontics, the lips do curl inward..? Yeah... that’s how it was haha Since I gained one thing and gave up one thing..
If before orthodontics you don’t have severe protrusion like Kim Yuna or Nam Joo-hyuk, or severe snaggletooth like Jung Joon-ha, I’m letting you know that cases like mine also exist!! During consultation, you need to understand well what kind of case you are. Still, I think it was better that I did it! Aging is better than snaggletooth...! I think I would have done it someday anyway lol since I thought about it for a long time..