Orthodontist news

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My kids had their orthodontist appointment this morning and we got some good news (in a sense) and some not so good news (in a sense). Depending on how you look at it determines which is the good news. The girl (13 years old) is still not ready for her braces, though they feel she should finally be ready for them in about 4 months. The boy (11 years old) is ready for the first stage of his braces. He will be starting with headgear in about a week and then a retainer about a month after that. The only reason for the separate times is that the retainer takes longer to make. The headgear only has to be worn at night but the retainer needs to be worn all the time. These two devices are supposed to start correcting his significant overbite so that the braces can fine tune the teeth in about a year. This means that we have to start paying for this part of the process soon for him, but we get to wait at least 4 more months before we start paying for the girl's braces. Now I need to find a way to squeeze $250 a month out of our tight budget for now and even more come 4 months or so from now. The hard part will be finding that money when I can only cut about $50 out of our budget. I can pick up a few hours, but I'm limited to less than 20 hours a week. We'll manage, we always do, but it means that it will be even longer before I can get my own vehicle again. I still haven't decided which was the good news and which was the bad.