Warning.This is going to be a long long story.You don't have to read it if you don't want to.

Hello.I am a 18 year old female who has issues with closing her mouth and teeth.I don't know how to start this post,I think I should start with my story which is about how I developed mouth breating habit and how orthodontics ruined my lip seal and mouth.So I will start from the very beginning.

When I was 2 or 3 years old me and my family lived in a very dusty house.That was because there were carpets everywhere,lots of textile products,a lot of stuffed plushie toys but the worst , carpet flooring.

Just when i was a toddler I was coughing and sneezing non stop.I always had fever,I was always sick and doctors couldnt find a reason for it!It wasn't asthma it wasn't allergies...So instead they gave me a lots of cortisol needles and continious antibiotics to make it stop.Cortisol,a hormone which the body produces under a lot of stress and exteremely harmful even for adults,even when your body produces it on it's own it is still very harmful.Imagine those needles being given to a 2-3 year old child.Anyways so cortisol needles and antibiotics didn't help solving the problem too so my father gave up on doctors and started searching for a cure.He found out that it was literally because of the dust inside the house(I will explain more of this later).So they immediately throw away all the carpet floorings,carpets,they put my stuffed plush toys away and bought antibacterial pillows and blankets for me.That helped a lot and I avoided getting asthma somehow.But unfortunately I already developed a mouth breathing habit and that is why my sickness never completely went away...I developed a mouth breathing habit at such a young age

So fast forwards to the age of 8 I had all my front teeth including my canines rotten because of the usage of unneeded antibiotic threatments and cortisol needles.But thank god the permanent teeth didn't rot away,but to this day they are still very fragile,sensitive and they are very transparent.Anyways I didn't know about the correct tongue posture those days and always kept my tongue at the bottom of my jaw because I though that was the way It should have been.This eventually let my palate to get narrower and caused my teeth to overcrowd.I also have a high palate.So I got braces at the age of 11.My orthodontist was planning to do a palate expansion at first but i have torus palatinus,he explained us that it would be hard to make an applience for it,that is why he didn't start the treatment with upper palate expansion(which is ridiculous,only a little effort was needed to make that applience).So i started the treatment without palate expansion and he wanted to remove some of my teeth but thank god my family was completely against it,they didn't allow him to extract any of my teeth.I should absolutely mention that he didn't take any x-rays or he didn't measure anything at all before starting the treatment.He just glued the brackets on and thats it.When i was at the age of 12(after 1 year of treatment) I was in absolutely pain.The pain got worse and worse day by day.I was having my 12 year molars coming out.And of course because he didnt take any x-rays or something like that he didn't know that a part of the 12 year molar was under the molar in front of it...Imagine a teeth is coming out under another teeth.On top of that braces are trying to hold the other teeth in its place...I still remember that pain, and to this day it is the worst pain I have ever had.I would try to rip off the armchairs fabric because of the pain and my mother couldn't stand seeing me like that.We went to the orthodontist more than 10 times maybe with this issue and only thing he did was saying that my pain tolerance was very low and that I was a very spoiled child,in his opinion I was making it up to get attention and he send us away.After a month or so I got a hugeee swelling on my neck,right below the painful molar.My mother took me to a normal doctor and even a doctor not a dentist knew it was caused by my teeth.So when I told him about the pain of my teeth he adviced us to go to another dentist to get it checked out.And we went to another dentist.The other dentist took some x-rays and told us that the half of 12 year molar was under the other molar and because it has been like this for a long time it had rotted the root of the other molar.I remember her saying ''What kind of irresponsible orthodontist is that!How couldn't he see such a big problem''That was the final point.My mother decided to end the treatment and I got a root canal for the rotten molar.But even today half of the 12 year molar is buried in my gum.The pain was gone everything was good.Only with a difference.My bottom teeth moved to such an unusual crowding that everytime I bite something a little carelessly I would bite and rip of my flesh too

So we started searching for another orthodontic treatment a few years later...again which was a big mistake.We went to a orthodontist but she said in order to get checked up I needed to had my cavities filled first.There were no cavities to be honest but my teeth was drilled and filled with that unneeded material.After I got 6 of my teeth drilled and filled for no reason I was finnaly able to see the orthodontist.But she was fighting with one of her assistants and was very angry because of that.So she came and checked my teeth and started shouting at me that such patients are wasting her time,there are more patients whose teeth are '' much more NOT STRAİGHT'' and told us to went away.My father was shocked also so we searched for another orthodontist.And I started a second treatment.This time with another,a better dentist at least though.There was no issue with my upper teeth so he didn't do anything for them.But in my head I was thinking ''what if this results in my bite to get corrupted since he is not touching the upper teeth.'' And my expectation was true.I think he put the brackets on my canines a little too high.I wasnt able to make my molars touch.I told this to him and he checked it and put some sort of filling at some of the molars.The thing I immediately asked was'' Are they going to be here for the rest of my life?''.They were slightly uncomfortable.And he said things like ''Oh they are going to get better as the treatment goes on,I am going to remove them at the end of the treatment blabla...''Everytime I went for a check up I remember telling ''I still cannot close my mouth,I still cannot bite correctly...''Eveytime he answered me with ''It is going to get better as the treatment goes on...''Because I wasn't able to close my mouth at all that resulted my face to get lenghtened at such a little time.I am seeing that 1-2 year makes a lot difference looking at the photos... At this point I was also at such a bad school that you could find any kind of bugs,hair,eyebrow,small plastic packaging,egg shells,mold and objects I dont even know how to describe in the food served in cafeteria.We weren't allowed to bring food from home(so that they could get more money from children,because they have to eat somehow)and I completely stopped eating at school.Also since my mother worked I usually ordered some junk food,and sometimes i didnt eat at all( I didnt know how to cook and I was too lazy for cooking anyways:/such a big fault,I shouldn't have done that,I realized that cooking is actually fun and I started cooking for myself lately)Only meal I properly had everyday was breakfast.I am still 162 cm as heigh and my weight is 40 kilograms.Which is very bad for my health and under the normal limit.All of my family is very tall and here I am stuck at 162 cm.Though I was carrying very heavy backpacks to school,my fault here again:((((( I was too lazy to prepare my backpack so i took all of them to school and to home everyday.Also maybe the cortisol needles and unnecessary antibiotic might have played a little role here.Anyways at such an important age which I should have had a very good nutrition,because that was probably my last growth,I didn't get and adequate nutrition at all.The last time I went to the orthodontist he said he was going to remove my braces.And I immediately said ''But I still cannot close my mouth and cannot bite!'' He told me they would get better after he removes them.My braces was removed and he put the retainer wire from my canine to my other canine.And..he forgot to remove the fillings -.- At that point I forgot that too because I was so excited to get my braces removed.A week later I went to get those fillings removed but when I went to the clinic,I learned that he moved away to somewhere and closed the clinic -.- I got those filling removed by another dentist,he also laughed at that I find it really funny too :D... Then I started seaching for a way to correct my bite on my own because I gave up on getting a help from othodontist, I dont trust them anymore, they are just people who don't care about their patients problems and they are ruining peoples faces and teeth for the sake of money in my book.Sorry if that's a little harsh but that's the reality for traditional orthodontists ( also I dont have underbite or overbite but because of those fillings which made some of my molars to slightly bury in my gums after I got them removed,whenever I try to make my molars touch each other my lower canines and lower front teeth are pushing the upper ones forwards.I have to force my chin back so that I can create a little space between my lower canines and incisors and the upper ones to make my molars touch correctly,which is very hard and I am not sure if I should let my lower teeth push the upper ones or If I should force my chin back.For some reason chewing gum helps a lot though,makes them more relaxed somehow) I found about the tongue posture,how mouth breathing effects the face and the teeth.It all made sense and even if it didn't work there is no harm from trying right?I started having correct oral posture and started breathing from my nose no matter how stuffed it is,It has been 5 months or so.For the first time in my life I can proudly say that I am not waking up with a sore and dry sore throat!(unless I am sick)I am coughing and sneezing way less!I am literally shocked!I only got sick 1 time in this 5 month period.And while I understand that it may not effect my face anymore since I already stopped growing I am determined to believe that my bite will get better and I will be able to close my mouth in relaxed position again one day.Any help any advice from anyone would be very appreciated.If you have been reading this far thank you so much about caring I wouldn't read a this long post to be honest :D But here I am ready for changes.I will also update any positive effect here.Goodbye for now.Also sorry for any mistakes,english is not my first language.I might remove some of this story some time later since it is too long by the way.