All 4 years of high school. Got them on like the third day of grade 9 and didn't have them taken out until a couple months after high school ended.

I had Invisalign for 3 years, my partner had braces for 5. We both agree that the pain was far worse in the beginning when they're really wrenching your teeth into place, and then gets a lot better once they start doing the more precise movements, which take up a good chunk of the total time.

Like all medical procedures though, it can be different for everybody.

Two years, and I had to wear headgear. Not sure if that's still a thing, but it was a big metal contraption that went around your whole head. The pain was unbearable and I had no social life from how weird it looked.

I never had braces.

It's been a long time but I remember it being something like 18-24 months. Not a short ordeal.

genuinely the only time mine hurt to the point of not being able to eat was the first week. Other times it hurt a little but I was essentially fine.

oh but if theres a little bit of metal bar poking the back of your cheek make sure to take a trip over and get it trimmed down, your teeth shifted and got closer together leading to the metal bits extending too far out. I was under the belief that it was supposed to be like that and I just had to get used to it and it HURTTT

edit: oh and 2.5 years, got delayed a bit

For like 20 years? I still have them, but hardly ever use them these days. Belts are just more convenient.

A few years? When they say use the plastic things after, use them. My teeth are now back to how they were before braces.

I started in 2020 and am now closed to being done, but that might habe taken so long because i am an adult and my teeth were realy shit (got 8 teeth removed 4 of them the wisdom teeth just to make enought space). Sometimes it hurt but it was definitly worth it.

About two years at the start of high school. Ultimately worth it.