Zach and his braces. He is such a trooper. He now has a permanent retainer on the bottom, to keep his teeth in place, at permanent retainer on the roof of his mouth, and then braces. He doesn't even complain. The first day he had terrible canker sores, and his mouth was so swollen. He just put wax on the brackets, put some canker sore medicine on the sores and went on about his business. He got these on last Wednesday, and boy do they make him look older.