I had braces as a teen. At first I was embarrassed by them, and resented being made to wear them, but that feeling abated pretty quickly. After a month or so, they just didn't matter to me at all one way or the other. Looking back on the experience with 30 years of hindsight, I can't say it affects me at all in terms of enjoying braces on women.

When I was young I had to wear Headgear(RPHG) and a pallet expander and despised every moment of it and would try to escape from having to wear it.

Now I wish I had to have a heavy treatment in which headgear had to be wired in lol

It's weird how things like this happen lol

I was the definition of hated  them. 

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.  It was fifty years ago this spring it all went on, I was 13.   I didn't want them in the first place then they told me about the headgear. I wore that thing full time that summer, not by choice.  It really did give you space at the front of the geek line.  Spent all of high school (all three of them) known as the new guy with the braces.  Still had them on for my first year of college.  We moved twice after they went on so not only a new orthodontist, but new classmates.  Five years later ortho number three still wanted more time.  It was a joke in my family how much I hated them then and it remains a joke until this day.  The arguments between my mother and I over wearing that headgear are still legendary. 

I took a writing class about 14 years ago and an assignment was something from childhood that others would remember me for.  There was no doubt it was my orthodontic saga (that is how I found this forum).   Turned out that was very thereputic, now I think it was pretty funny.  I hated them.

I hated my braces so much. When I knew I was getting braces i just hoped that it would be fixed braces like the other kids in my class. But first i got a fixed expander which not only gave me a pretty terrible lisp but also created this huge gap between my front teeth. It made speaking and eating really hard and the fact that i couldn't hide it made me so embarassed.
Then i finally got the fixed braces to close the gaps and i was glad that i got rid of the lisp when - bam - headgear. Fortunately only had to wear it at night, but i was so embarassed in front of my family and was afraid my friends would find out and laugh about me. Of course i never wore it long enough and my orthodontist threatened that he would have to give me a fixed appliance to do the job which would be far more uncomfortable than the headgear (i'm guessing he meant the herbst appliance?). I somehow managed to wear it long enough and finish the treatment. But i was afraid of every appointment, already expecting the next humiliating appliance to make my life miserable. Oddly enough i find thinking about that kind of arousing nowadays...

I had braces when I was younger. I never really had a thing for braces but definitely did for appliances, both fixed and removable. Braces embarrassed me a bit because they were always there, but I was always super jealous of my friends who got expanders or other appliances. I wonder if it's a grass greener thing, I'm sure if I actually had them I would not have liked it, but the idea of it still arouses me! Nowadays, I would love very invasive treatments, just as a few of you mentioned.

 I got a hawley retainer at the end of treatment, and I wore it a lot, even though my parents didn't make me (and my mom tried actively to have me avoid wearing it in public!) The few times I wore it to school were definitely very exciting to me.

I never had them before. Wanting braces would have been like asking to go to a psychiatrist. Although come to think of it, I probably needed both. I just got neither and here I am with you, my compatriots.

I hated my brace SOO mutch as a kid...
Now I love to see other on it. (Perhaps I am a little sadistic:-)

but sure, now I regret my few time I had my headgear in public....