Twin Block Brace - help!

[leapyleo]

Does anyone out there have experience of twin block braces? My DS is having them fitted next week to correct the alignment of his jaws - apparently it has grown more on one side than on the other - and I made the mistake of looking them up on the internet - word is they're agony. Now wish I hadn't looked, but maybe best to be prepared. Any advice?

Just an update on this - prior to having the brace fitted I had done some searching around on the internet and found very little information, but what I did find was a video diary that had been posted on YouTube by a girl in the States - and she was having a terrible time with them. Having seen this I was pretty worried. My son now has had his brace for 2 weeks now . The first 2 days he was very uncomfortable and I dosed him up with paracetamol but it settled very quickly after this and he now doesn't have a problem with it at all. I wanted to update my earlier post because anyone else who looked this up would probably be as concerned as I was but in fact our experience has been much more positive. He still speaks with a lisp but apart from that he's managing much better than we expected.

That was nice to update with the good news.
Glad he's doing well.

how is your ds getting on with his braces now?