I’ll add my voice to the chorus – people literally don’t give a crap.  As that old song said: the Martians could land in the car park and no one would care. 

Many years ago, I did an experiment with a model I did a few photoshoots for. She had braces at the time, and I wanted to add to my ‘Braces are Beautiful’ series which I had on DeviantArt at the time.  (long since closed down, don’t even bother asking for pics).  I convinced her ortho to give her a headgear for the sole purpose of a shoot. 

After the shoot I dared her to go for drinks with me with the device still attached.  We went to a very upmarket and very busy coffee shop, and she entered with her headgear on.  No one friggin’ noticed.  Even the model commented on how little impact it had on the public. 

And my own public headgear experiences – there were not many, but I had them – were ultimately very underwhelming, a much bigger deal in my own mind than it ever was in reality.

Nobody gives a crap.  If nobody gives a shit about a very obvious headgear, then even fewer people will care about standard issue railway tracks. 

Ask me if this was true in the 80s when people were not glued tot heir phones all day and I’ll give you a different answer. 

I've had mine for a couple of years, and besides showing my best friend from high school who was excited for me to finally ge them, since she was well aware of my kink for them, not many other people, if any at all, ever really reacted to them. My family would notice and say things like "oh I'm so sorry that's rough buddy". At one of my more memorable jobs, one of my coworkers commented "woah I didn't know you had braces!" After I'd worked there for a year and had them the entire time I'd worked there. This told me I needed to smile a whole lot more. I think mostly itll be people I haven't seen since high school seeing me and chatting for a bit, there's about a 50/50 theyll comment on them, but most try to be polite and not bring it up, One of the many reasons I want to be prescribed an extra oral appliance of any kind. Anything to draw attention to them lol. Since I got them right outa high school, there wasnt really a point I was scared to be getting them, i was just so excited to finally have them!

Did you take photos out in the coffee shop? I vaguely remember an article with photos where someone had done literally that - worn headgear and braces to a cafe or restaurant or something. Wonder if it was your model...?

Found one of the photos on pinterest - maybe this is one of yours...?

https://dereferer.me/?https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/106749453658885479/

When i got my braces put on people noticed but no one really cared. Most people were like good for you. But no real embarrassing moments just the ones in my head. Im about half way done with them.